D-Link DWL-G510 Wireless PCI Adapter, 802.11g, 54 Mbps
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Customer Review: Very Poor and Slow Connection
Summary: 1 Stars
I dont have the connection problem most have experienced, ie, my connection disconnecting very often. Mine stays up, BUT, only connects at an impressive 1.0 Mbps. I have tried everything, removing everything, keeping my connection free,... NO use. My other PC's around the house, All WIRELESS, connect at 54.0 Mbps. But I have used other brands. I bought this for the price, and boy do I feel stupid. D-Link, Im glad I spent a little money now to know not to spend more on anything that bears your name. What a shame.Customer Review: awful - don't waste your time.
Summary: 1 Stars
thought i'd suggest this to a friend to try. Complete waste of time. Intermittent setup problems with win xp, had to disable then enable all the time. XP configuration would only intermittently show out our home network that would always show up on netstumbler, even after disabling all security features.I'm pretty good with computers, and can build a computer from parts. So despite some negative reviews, I was wondering how bad could this be? Well, it's going back in exchange for a linksys.
Customer Review: Good card, bad driver
Summary: 2 Stars
This is actually a pretty good card with a really bad driver. As long as you use the Asus WL-138g driver as others have mentioned you should be fine. I would have given it 4 stars if it came with the Asus driver to begin with. Before you install this driver, I suggest you pull out the card, shut off your computer, then put it back in again. Then boot up your computer and install the driver. I got excellent test results with the Asus driver (measured with the Road Runner speed test).
Customer Review: No problems for me
Summary: 4 Stars
I installed this card on a dinosaur computer (PII 400 mhz 512 meg RAM) running Windows XP pro. Followed the directions, installed the software first then the card, rebooted and used the Dlink icon to tell it which network to connect to and it has run fine.
I did not do any range tests, the antenna is very close to the wireless station it connects to.
So the bottom line for me is I would buy another.
Customer Review: A lot of trouble, but think I have it working
Summary: 3 Stars
I had connectivity problems with this wireless card and all the rest as mentioned below, but then, as one of the reviews on this site suggested, I downloaded the ASUS WL-138g drive (since the cards are pretty much identical) and installed it, and I also turned off the Windows XP "Wireless Zero Configuration" which seemed to help (...). So, I wouldn't recommend getting this card, but if you have it, there is a solution to your problems.