TRENDnet 54Mbps Wireless G PCI Adapter TEW-423PI
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Customer Review: simple and great card
Summary: 4 Stars
hardware installation of this card took 3 minutes including opening and closing computer case.
Software installation took even less time than hardware. No drivers required for Windows XP Media Center Edition SP2 but disk is included if you want to load third party utility to manage this card. Windows itself will manage this card.
for WinXP Home or Pro SP2 you need to insert driver disk in to CDROMand Windows will find it. But after the next Windows Update, Windows will load updated driver for this card from Microsoft website and replace the supplied driver.
In general this card works fine without any problems. It finds all wireless networks around your PC including B and G.
Customer Review: Piece of junk
Summary: 1 Stars
First, I am an experienced engineer in both software and hardware. I have no idea if the hardware will work or not as the device is not registered with microsoft. That is ordinarily no issue. In this case, I gave up using their instructions to install. I attempted to use vendor's uninstall and all it does is take desktop icons off, leaves all the software on pc. Windows XP attempts to uninstall but unsucessfully. Manually attempting to remove software also unsucessful. The support site www.trendnet.com on packaging is not there if it ever was.
As you can gather I believe the vendor may have loaded the reviews. I am certainly not happy with it. Back it goes to Amazon.
Customer Review: Terrible customer support
Summary: 1 Stars
I was unable to install the software that came with the adapter. When I called customer support, I was told that there was probably something wrong with the CD (if there was, shouldn't there have been a recall?). Three separate calls ended the same way--with the representative telling me that they would email the correct software to me. The first woman I talked to told me this without asking for my email address, then hung up. Needless to say, I am still waiting for these files.
It seems like most people who bought this were satisfied, but if it doesn't work on your computer the first time you install it, good luck getting their tech support to even listen to you.
Customer Review: Poor Quality
Summary: 1 Stars
I sent this card back the day after I got it. First of all, the enclosed software would not install properly on my XP machine. Perhaps I got a bad copy of the CD. Seems unlikely. I ended-up running the card straight through windows but the speed fluctuated and was constantly slow. Calling customer service was a waste of time. No phone number is given in the manual so I had to go online using my laptop and get it. I waited on hold for more than half an hour and finally gave up. I was attracted to this product by the price and other users seem to have success with it. I did not. My advise, don't gamble on this one, spend a little more money, and get a quality product.Customer Review: Not worth the money
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this card for a Dell desktop when i setting up a wireless network in my house. Installing the wireless card into the computer wasn't that difficult and installing the drivers/software was a fairly painless process. However, the card had very poor reception and only detected a very weak signal and would continually lose the signal all together. Moving the antenna around did not increase the signal strength appreciably. Even when the wireless router was placed about 10 feet from the computer (with no obstructions between the card and the router), it still did not show the strongest signal possible. Thus, I would so don't buy this card as it is a waste of money.