Installation was a breeze, and it hasn't given me any problems so far. The only knock (and this applies for all wireless modems) is that the antenna sticks out of the side. In other words, you have to be careful lest to drop your laptop and break off the antenna by accident.

If you decide to get the card, I recommend going with the D-Link Access Point, since I've heard problems mixing and matching equipment (even if they call claim to be compatible).

The solution at hand: for some strange reason, after having my hand held by Compaq for three days of testing, my Win 98 OS had unrecoverable errors. I was forced to RESTORE my entire hard drive after transferring all important files to a backup drive. Nobody had any idea what had happened. Bad hardware? or software? What a nightmare.

My advice... stay away for these reasons: 1. Poor tech support 2. tech support not free 3. Outdated driver 4. Driver not compatible with Win2000 adv. server

Also with the range being this well I am glad to hear that the WEP encryption has gone up to 128-bit. Not only is it more secure than it was before, but now it is compatible with virtually all 802.11b wireless products out there.

I get enough of this whole no wires deal. I can't tell the difference when I surf the web from my wired or wireless network. With my Cable modem access I get very good speeds and I am glad wireless can handle it.

This is definitely recommended. Especially with the DWL-1000AP, they work with default settings and I get great range.

Do any of these things really have the advertised range?

It has been 3 months since I have owned this and it has never gone bad or decreased in singnal strength from my usual positions like the kitchen and outside patio.

I have still to find a better Wireless PC card.

I like the card, just not the fact that D-Link says they support 128-bit encryption when they don't. I called D-Link support and they acknowledged the discrepancy.

nevertheless, couldn't get this freaking thing to work at all. After an hour on hold with tech support (not told free), and another 45 mins with the guy simply telling me to restart over and over, support told me to return the product.

is no good

The unit works very well after I replaced it. The monitoring software is excellent and the documentation is very good. No reservation there. The problem is the company itself. After having hardware failure I called the company for support. The number is not toll free. This doesn't bother me as long as I get help quickly. I didn't. I was put on hold for 45 minutes. When I was finally helped the tech support person said that D-Link wouldn't help me unless I owned the unit for 30 days. Until then I had to deal with my retailer. What a pain. It is there product they should take care of it. Secondly, he stated that the warranty method was for me to send the unit in and they would repair it and then ship it back. I don't think so. That is a useless policy. I would have to buy another unit anyway. I bought the unit online so I did the exchange and received another unit, which has worked fine.

In the meantime I bought a Linksys card and it worked as well if not better. Linksys is not know for their customer support either so I am not sure which is a better route. I don't regret buying this card but I don't think the rest of my wireless roll out will be with D-Link equipment.

The good news is that the setup is easy and I had no problems getting it to work with my G4 software base station. The G4 will dial in when ever I need to use a internet connection on the ThinkPad.

The range is poor when compared to my ibook, but you need to realize that the ibook has a large built-in antenna for wireless networking. The antenna on the D-link card is just not as good. One thing that I need to keep in mind is that the laptop cannot be between the card antenna and the basestation. If this is the case my connection will drop off completely... even when I'm just 10 feet away! With the laptop oriented in the correct direction I can access the base station from two rooms away (25 feet and several walls) with good perfromance.

One problem: When I'm working without the d-link card installed and the ThinkPad wakes from being in sleep mode (stand-by in terms Win2000) I get 5-10 messages in a row asking if the d-link card is inserted. The message boxes only have an Ok button. d-link support never returned my emails and left me on hold for 15 minutes one day. I'm just getting use to clicking ok 10 times

Overall I feel this card is a great deal for under $100. It supports 802.11b so it is compatible with all other Access Points that are 802.11b compliant, they have a good range, good design, and D-Link said they are going to have 128-bit encryption (enterprise level) soon.

The Quick Install Guides are posters, which are very helpful in walking you through the installation.

1. Initial setup was difficult due to poorly-written documentation.

2. The access point only registered on the console machine when I connected it via a crossover patch cable to a standard Ethernet NIC.

3. The remote machine never transmitted to the access point.

4. ALL my attempts to get tech support (email, phone) were frustrating and ultimately fruitless.

The network never went up. The entire project was a waste of money and a good deal of time. I am a network administrator and consultant, and will cheerfully embrace any opportunity I can find to steer clients away from this company.

Tried on a Win98 SE box but drivers would never load properly.

Sat on hold for tech support for 1 hour and decided I did not need this kind of grief.

Bought Linksys gear and it all plug & played as expected. NT box is happy, Win98 box is happy, Toshiba (4 years old) laptop with Win95 is happy.

Sorry, D-Link sucked on this one.

I do notice a differnce in peer-to-peer file transfer times, but that is expected when the max speed comes down from 100Mb to 11Mb.

And the kicker is that my laptop is older and slower than his. We got curious and switched cards and did a clean installation to see if it was a fluke but when it was in his laptop it still out performed his other cards.

After finding this out and more extensive use of his wireless network, I had to have my own. I bought the D-Link Access point and hooked it up to my already existing wired network and I have to say I am very impressed. Laptops were made for mobility it is sad it took this long for wireless to be readily available.

Highly recommended.

Everything was easy to set-up and it works well with my works little wireless network.

A friend of mine has a wireless network at his home also and with a little settings change and a reboot I was able to connect to his computers.

Recommended to anyone who has a laptop and access to a Wireless network, or will soon have access to a wireless netowrk.