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What a far cry from Linksys. Just installed it in 5 minutes while reading the - get this - MANUAL. HOORAY. Way better and for less than half the price. They actually send you one. It finished installing itself on my aging Satellite with XP before I even finished the instructions.
Since my 98se machine was already maxed out, I switched the cards (new card to XP machine and old card to 98se machine). After installing the new drivers, it still would not work. A call to Trendnet informed me that the card had been upgraded and now needed more memory to operate. I had this in my small Windows 98se machine and it always worked w/o problems. It would have been nice if Trendnet had indicated the version on the box but it is OK as both machines are working wirelessly great. When it came, I noticed the box was slightly different but the card itself looked the same. So when a friend needed a wireless card quickly for her XP machine I gave her mine and ordered a replacement for myself. I installed it in my 98se machine and it wanted new drivers.
My laptop now freezes when it goes into standby.but otherwise it works great. The card works great and the installation was a snap. I downloaded the latest drivers from their website (Win XP).
I plugged this card in and installed the driver utility from the CD. I use WEP security in my home network.After 3-4 frustrating hours I had to go back to my 5 year old Lucent Orinoco 802.11b card. I spent 3-4 hours trying to make this card work but it never went beyond 1 Mbps even when I was sitting 1 foot away from the wireless access point. Everything looked fine and the card seemed to be connecting to the access point but my speed never went over 1 Mbps. With the Lucent card I was up and running in 10 seconds.My advice, spend a few extra dollars and buy Netgear, Linksys or any of the other well-known brands. Very disappointing. I have a Thinkpad that runs Win XP Home.
After many hours, bought a Linksys card, which worked fine the first time not problems. Never worked.
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