TRENDnet 54Mbps Wireless G PC Card TEW-421PC
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Customer Review: The worst wireless card ever
Summary: 1 Stars
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. Very disappointing.
I have a Thinkpad that runs Win XP Home. I plugged this card in and installed the driver utility from the CD. Everything looked fine and the card seemed to be connecting to the access point but my speed never went over 1 Mbps. 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. 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.
Customer Review: Problems for XP version
Summary: 2 Stars
I have a COPMPAQ laptop that runs on Windows XP. The driver software i got on the CD when i purchased the wireless card had problems and so downloaded the one they have on the website, and for two months i had no problems. Once i updated my windows XP and my antivirus protection, it somehow dumped its physical memory contents (the wireless software)as though the software was never installed, and now it doesn't work at all. Every time i insert it into the laptop, the system is forced to restart itself.
If there's anyone who has the same problem or know a solution, plz let me know at lsamuel@sunyrockland.edu.
I guess a good buy has certain disadvantages to itself.
Customer Review: cheap card with good reception, xp users MUST read
Summary: 4 Stars
(...)I am using this card on old p3 laptopget good reception, and able to get up to 24M at low
but xp users must read this
upon installation, the system may install the driver automatically, the driver is WRONG! this is for PCI version, will not work on the pc card
after installation, you must update the driver with the one comes with CD
after that, it should be good to go
and there's another benefit for 2 pc card slot laptop users: this card is thin enough to put another card on top of this
reception in kitchen
trendware: good to low
MS MN-710: low to very low
Customer Review: Recommended
Summary: 3 Stars
I buyed 3 of this cards. They works fine in winXP with and without Service Pack 2. This cards are very cheap and works good. I connect them to a Linksys WRT54g. [...]
The card uses Texas Instruments chips. Seems like the chipset company don't support Linux. Hence, the card is not easily to install in Linux OS. You can find some web pages describing the linux instalation, but I had no time to do a try.
The non-Linux support is the only reason to give them 3 star. I will like to have a plug&play linux support as is the case of a lot of other cards.
Customer Review: Easy to install and good reception
Summary: 5 Stars
Received the card a few days after I ordered it from Amazon. After reading many reviews, I downloaded the driver from the Trendnet website instead of using the CD that came with the card. Unzipped and installed the files, re-started my laptop and inserted the card. Everything went smoothly and I was surfing the web in 5 mins. I read Gary's review about the card not working for his IBM Thinkpad and was skeptical at first since I am also using an IBM Thinkpad running Windows98 SE. But mine works perfectly and very good reception. Highly recommend it!