Cisco-Linksys WPC54G Wireless-G Notebook Adapter
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Customer Review: travellin man most hotels are switching to WIFI
Summary: 4 Stars
I travel a great deal for work and need to sync with the database at the home office at least daily. Many of the hotels I stay at have gone with WIFI because they don't need to wire every room. LAN is not offered as an alternative. Using the modem/phone is not an option because my synchronization would take several hours. Many of my emails contain large attachments such as PDFs. I have a Dell Latitude running Window NT. I bought the WPC54G two months ago and have been on the road a lot with it. It has worked very well at every hotel I have stayed at that uses WIFI. Installation of the software and set up was a breeze. I spent 10 minutes max getting up and running. I was at my sisters house the other day and she is a Mac user running Airport and I had no problems linking in. I have noticed no difference in speed between using the Adapter and the speeds I get using the LAN at other hotels.
This set up is working well enough that I plan I getting a wireless router at home.
Customer Review: Requires XP Wireless Zero Configuration Service be enabled
Summary: 4 Stars
I installed the WPC54G with the WRT54G Router on a Sony GR-390 with Windows XP. The Router configuration went well using the included disk. After going to the Linksys site and downloading the most current driver for the PC card, the PC card installation seemed ok. The problem was that the PC card showed inactive and would not communicate with the router. I ran msconfig and checked the services tab and did not have Wireless Zero Configuration on the list. This is required to configure the wireless connection. Sony (and probably other OEMs) elected not to start this process in the Windows Registry. This is most likely the problem many XP users are having. It can be corrected by editing the Windows Registry to automatically start WZCSVC, but this should not be attempted unless you know how (if you must ask how, you should not be trying it). After making this change and using the Linksys knowledge base article ID KB10934338 mentioned in another review, everything works well.Customer Review: Hi Please Help
Summary: 3 Stars
Hi Everyone! I am recently interested in purchasing a laptop. A Sony Vaio may be what I eventually
go for. However, there are things I need to consider
before purchase. One of the things, which seems to
bothers me the most, is that I wonder how I can
go online wirelessly using DSL connection.
I have been reading a lot about products offered
by LinkSys, and I do realise this product accepts
dual connections (b and g). At home I have use Earthlink
DSL, and if I have a Wireless-G router at home and a wireless
-g Notebook Adapter, how far can I stay connected? What is
the range? Also, any of the users here have any suggestion
about using DSL connection with a notebook? Any product
out there enables us to stay connected anywhere? Please give me some suggestion. thanks. P.S. uh, one more thing: what should I look for particularly when I buy a notebook, in terms of wireless card? Thanks, any common would help.
Customer Review: Did not work with Compaq/HP and WINXP (until BETA DRIVERs!)
Summary: 3 Stars
As already mentioned by other reviewers, this card does not work on my Compaq Presario 900 running WinXP. The laptop freezes with 100% CPU utilization as soon as the card is installed. I've tried all the suggestions ranging from the latest drivers, disabling various items in the device manager and configuring WinXP zero config. wireless service. All to no avail! Customer support was sub-par, with the representative basically reading off a script. If you own a Compaq or HP laptop, please save yourself the trouble and DO NOT buy this until someone releases a fix!!!UPDATE 4/1/03!!: This is no April Fools, Linksys has released a beta driver that did work for my Presario laptop. It can be found on their driver download page. In small print it says: "If you are having problems using this Adapter and you have a Texas Instrument CardBus Controller, please download this driver here."
I needed to install the driver in safe mode, but now it's smooth surfing!
Customer Review: dififcult setup with Airport base
Summary: 3 Stars
Installation was easy on HP laptop running XP (Home), got immediate detection of signal from my Apple Airport Base Station (I have been successfully running Airport network with several machines in my house for more than a year). Although the Linksys Wireless-G was clearly talking to the Airport, it wasn't getting a correct IP or DNS via DHCP. I was saved by another poster here who wrote: "Getting the 128 bit WEP configuration to work required asking a consultant for help. Apparently, you must enter the long security code versus the network access password. This obscure nuance was not obviously noted in the manual or on line documentation." Reset the WEP password on the Airport, specified that in a control panel on the laptop and everything worked. Compared to installing a wireless card on a Mac, this was ridiculously difficult. But it now works. ***** for performance, great range and * for setup, which averages to *** rating overall.