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Product Reviews:
D-Link AirPlus DWL-650+ Wireless 22 Mbps PC Card |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Great item, works out of the box
Comments: purchased this card to use in my Linux laptop. I must say it works flawlessly out of the box, totally supported by the OS, no need to install drivers. |
Rating: 2 (out of 5)
Summary: Warning - this card uses old technology
Comments: I have this card, which I purchased in early 2003. It's served me fine. However, our wireless access has been updated to current standards using WPA-PSK (Personal) with AES coding (This is the "WPA2" standard.)
If you are sure you will be using the old WEP - or even WPA-PSK with TKIP - I think this will work for you.
however if you will be upgrading to the latest standard, this will be a throw-away - I even called DLink and they said to purchase a new card. |
Rating: 2 (out of 5)
Summary: cheap, however bad quality
Comments: We purchased3of these cards and I cannot endorse them. The 22Mbps and 256-bit WEP encryption features cannot be used unless you have a special D-Link access point. however you can always use it as a classic 802.11b 11Mbps card.
However, our cards often did not recover well when the laptop was reactivated from suspended mode. A firmware update from www.d-link.com, which adds the WPA security feature, did not make things better. My laptop actually started to freeze e once in a while. To make things worse1of the cards broke down after a year only.
I have been using Belkin Wireless 54Mbps Notebook Adapters since and they have proven to work well. I endorse spending a few extra bucks to get a card of better quality. |
Rating: 2 (out of 5)
Summary: Does the job, just not endorse for a secure link
Comments: Having been given some of these cards I have found them to be quite irratic if you secure your access point.
Yes the 256bits WEP works however you really should think about getting WPA instead.
The range of the card is about OK although if on your wireless router you choose to 'not broadcast the SSID' then even if you explictly list this in the connection you will find it starts to connect and disconnect and become quite frustrating.
If you are lucky you can enable this and limit your router access based by MAC and combined with the 256bit WEP should be secure enough for home usage.
do not by cheap purchase Netgear!!
I purchased the DG834GT what a truely excellent wireless router this is!!
Had bad experiences with DLINK in the past, linksys are also as troublesome!! |
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Summary: Not recomended for Linux users
Comments: This card uses the TI ACX100 chipset. There is no supported Linux driver from TI or DLink for this chipset.
The card works fine with Windows XP, although the range seems to be somewhat limited. I can use it upto about 30 feet, however it is going thought a wall. My overall impression is that it is basically a trouble free card with Windows.
There is a number of people working to make a GPLed driver for Linux which seems to work. There is sufficent info on the internet to figure it out if you have the time. It would be nice to see offically supported Linux drivers from DLink. |
