D-Link DWL-G510 Wireless PCI Adapter, 802.11g, 54 Mbps
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Customer Review: Garbage with Arrogant Tech Support - AVOID!
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought one of these instead of what I normally buy (Linksys) because of a sale price. What a mistake. XP on my Abit BE6-II would not recognize that the card was present. I followed the installation instructions to the letter and everything looked fine up to the point where the driver popped up a message in the systray stating that it could not find the card. When I called D-link tech support they told me "Sir, you must not have installed the driver." When I told them that, not only had I installed it as instructed (and it appeared to install fine), that the driver itself was telling me that there was no card present. At that point they gave me a case number and told me to try again and call back if I still had problems. Well, recognizing that, while I did pay meticulous attention to the instructions (and build my own computers so I am not exactly a newb), stuff happens and I could have made a mistake. So I did try again and with the same result. But I won't be calling again. This piece of crap reinforces everyting negative I have ever heard about D-link and it is being exchanged as quick as I can for a Linksys. Never again.Customer Review: Works fine - in some operating systems.
Summary: 3 Stars
I purchased this wireless card (specificly the "b" revision) somewhere else about a year ago. I realized then that official drivers exist only for Windows XP. However, I have made it successfully work in Linux and Windows XP x64.
Linux - I use Fedora Core and the madwifi package. Supports the Atheros chipset on the card. You can find the package at rpm.livna.org: http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/x86_64/RPMS.lvn/
Windows XP - the official driver found here: http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=308&pv=66&sec=0
Windows XP x64 - This Gigabyte driver works: http://america.giga-byte.com/Communication/FileList/Driver/64bit_wlan42052bin.zip
I give credit to the folks at PlanetAMD64 for that last one. See the forum post here: http://www.planetamd64.com/lofiversion/index.php/t5287.html
I haven't tried to find something for Windows 98, but I'm curious if gigabyte has something that would work there too...
Customer Review: Not very stable product
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this card because of its low price (compared to linksys) and installed an old PC running Win98 SE. My internet connection is plugged into my laptop that has a linksys 54G PC card and the old PC connects to my laptop via the D-link card (ah-hoc network). The setup has was relatively easy and I didn't encounter any problem.
However I would run into serious problems occassionally on my old pc trying to connect. One time the Win98 started up but couldn't detect the D-link card, I had to remove the card and put it back in to resolve the problem. Then another day for some strange reason the link is very slow for now apparant reason.
So conclusion: if you're an expert in computers and you don't want to spend too much money on a 802.11g pci card for a secondary pc then this is the card for you, cause you might need to troubleshoot once in a while why something wrong happened and you can't get on the internet.
Customer Review: Works well in XP if you set it up correctly
Summary: 4 Stars
I've had this card for over a year on my Win2k system and it worked flawlessly. I recently built a new machine running on XP and transplanted the DWL-G510. I know that WinXP has issues with wireless cards so I used the DLink utility software instead. With that setup, my wireless connection would still drop out once in a while, especially if I left the computer on for a long time.
I dug through the DLink support website and found this FAQ: http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=1398&question=dwl%2Dg510+xp for disabling the Wireless Zero Configuration service in XP. Once I did that, my connection has been very reliable, even if I leave the computer on for a day or two.
I would give the adapter 5 stars for price and reliability. However, I had to dig around the DLink support pages to find the config article. DLink should do a better job linking the instruction to the DWL-G510 support page.
Customer Review: Worked for me but some flaws.
Summary: 4 Stars
I have been using this card since 3 months to share internet connection using an Actiontec router. The main disappointment is Dlink has not posted any driver updates yet . I had issues when I used Windows Xp's built in Wireless configuration. It would detect the network but I had to refresh the connection everytime my computer came out from standby which was very frustating. I tried using Asus driver which fixed the standby issue but it would only connect at a very low speed. Finally I used dlink's own utility and this time it worked. The connection is very stable. The only problem I have now is it always connects to my neighbour's network instead of mine and I have to reconfigure it every time I restart the computer. But besides that no problems. The standby problem is also solved.