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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great price, great performance., December 24, 2001
I've been looking for a CF-format, 802.11b wireless card for my Ipaq PDA for at least 6 months. There have been a few out there meant for industrial use (and priced accordingly), but this is the first one I've seen at the consumer-level price point. I am extremely pleased. The card was fairly easy to set up with the D-Link access point I bought at the same time (DWL-1000AP), and it has performed flawlessly for the last week.It is so nice to be able to catch up on the news, get email, and even browse Amazon.com from anywhere in the house (and a good distance outside) without being tied to a desktop computer. Overall, this card is great. It seems to get better reception than my notebook does with a larger wireless (802.11b) PC-card, and it has a pretty simple setup. The reason I give it four instead of five stars is that the manual does leave a little that you have to figure out yourself, especially if you want to use secure communications, but everything else is a no-brainer. I find that almost all 802.11 devices have the same problem. Tip: if you want to use WEP, use the hexadecimal key option, NOT the passphrase key option. One caveat: you take your chances with D-Link's tech support. I had to call them for a compatiblity issue this card was having with an access point also built by the same company - the problem was the access point, not the card. The first person I talked to must have just been pulled off the street a few minutes before I talked to him - he didn't understand how the product worked and was less acquainted with D-Link's product line than I am, and that ain't saying much. When he decided that my (rudimentary) question was far beyond his grasp, he directed me to another, non-toll-free, number that he purported was "second-level tech support". The number he gave had a recording that told me to call the first number, and had no other options. I called the first number again and got someone else who had the answers I needed right away. Again, that was a problem with the wireless access point, not this card.
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