TRENDnet 54Mbps Wireless G PCI Adapter TEW-423PI
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Customer Review: Works Fine after some issues
Summary: 5 Stars
Trendnet Pci wireless adapter for desktop computers:
Theres a lot of bad reviews, here my thoughts:
At 1st it wont install under Vista 64 bits, but downloaded driver from the Trendnet website and installed flawslessly.
After that it wont connect, signal too weak,
but then I relocated the router to a higher position and it made the trick. The connection is stable now and has a strong signal, before it readed 60% of strenght, now a 99%, also it wont drop at all.
It plays online multiplayer Call of Duty 4 without lag while downloading a file at the same time, thats enough connection overkill. works fine, Thanks Amazon.
Customer Review: Worked at first then started to just bomb out...
Summary: 1 Stars
Looking on here it seems many of us are having the same problem, that this card works initially then just drops the internet for no particular reason, the strange thing is windows 7 says that there is a internet connection, but the browser doesn't work, I thought it might be my router (Linksys) but my laptop doesn't drop connection so I guess it must be this card. Btw I am connected at the moment fine, this is the problem I get on for a while then it will just drop out, hard to know what the cause is and very stressful if ones needs to use the internet.
I actually came on here to look for a new card and by the sounds of it I need one, what a bummer.
Customer Review: Locked up my Windows XP mouse, disabled fast user switching
Summary: 1 Stars
Do not buy this if you have Windows XP home. I don't know what OS other people were using. When I installed the drivers, it disabled fast user switching (and took away the icon screen that people use to log in). After logging in with a dialog, there were two messages about programs crashing and wanting to send info to microsoft. Then, the mouse would lock up for 30 seconds every few minutes. All of these problems were new, and they stayed over multiple reboots until I used system restore to uninstall the drivers. Then they went away. Finally, it could not connect to my network even though it showed over 70% strength. I would avoid this product.Customer Review: Not the choice for me
Summary: 1 Stars
I'll happily admit I bought on price. Wireless-G cards should be a commodity product by now. This card will not work with the XP wireless utility and requires its own driver utility to be installed. That would be OK, but when you do that on an XP machine, it kills your multiple user welcome screen and fast user switching.
I did get it up and running, but the driver application seemed to crash frequently and hence the connection was lost, with no guarantee it would return without a reboot. This frustrated my wife and family a lot so the card has to go.
Until Trend fix the software, I could not recommend this product.
Customer Review: Absolute zero!!! This company should go out of business
Summary: 1 Stars
This card is garbage. It works when it wants to. Sometimes it connects, other times it either won't connect under any circumstances short of pulling out the power of the router...then waiting until it is reinitialized. When that happens it connects at random speeds and continues to fall under total failure occurs. Not ever have I had such an annoying problem with a wireless card. I even went out of my way to spend a lil bit more for what I thought was a better quality card. I am extremely disappointed, really! I now have the cheapest wireless g-pci card I could find, and that one works flawlessly. Shame on TRENDnet for selling this rubbish!