| D-Link DWL-G510 Wireless PCI Adapter, 802.11g, 54 Mbps |
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Model: DWL-G510
Brand: D-Link
Manufacturer: D-Link
Average Rating: 
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Total Reviews: 52
Form factor: Plug-in card
Hardware platform: PC
Data link protocol: IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g
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| Features: |
Up to 54 Mbps
Compatible with 802.11g and 802.11b
Increased Wireless Security with 802.1x and WPA
Great for Video Streaming
Quick and Easy Installation |
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| Description: |
| D-Link, the industry pioneer in wireless networking, introduces another performance breakthrough in wireless connectivity - the D-Link AirPlus G series of high-speed devices.The D-Link AirPlus G DWL-G510 PCI Adapter is a wireless PCI adapter featuring the very latest in advanced wireless silicon chip technology to deliver incredibly fast data transfer in the 2.4GHz frequency. The DWL-G510 also works with 802.11b standard wireless devices and when used with other D-Link AirPlus G products delivers throughput speeds capable of handling heavy data payloads.The D-Link AirPlus G DWL-G510 also includes a configuration utility to discover available wireless networks and create and save detailed connectivity profiles for those networks most often accessed. The DWL-G510 is a powerful 32-bit PCI adapter that installs quickly and easily into desktop PCs and when used with other D-Link AirPlus G products automatically connects to the network. Like all D-Link wireless adapters, the DWL-G510 can be used in ad-hoc mode to connect directly with other 2.4GHz wireless computers for peer-to-peer file sharing or in infrastructure mode to connect with a wireless access point or router for access to the Internet in your office or home network. |
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This thing rocks, April 5, 2008
By Jonathon C. Gregg (Kansas)
This little guy replaced a spotty adapter i had before and it is doing an amazing job. I no longer have to worry about Ethernet cables and fighting usb adapters. I highly recommend getting and using this wireless adapter.
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Works with OpenSuse Linux 10.3 64 Bit, February 18, 2008
By armie (Purdys, NY USA)
I was pretty shocked at how difficult it was to get wireless up and running with linux. Worse, if you decide to go with a quad core processor (which I did), things are even more difficult. Linux is not the culprit here; manufacturers don't write drivers for linux. What's worse, they refuse (for the most part) to release their hardware information. If they did at least the latter, the community would write a driver in no time for that card.
I have a quad core intel processor, 500 GB sata drive on an intel motherboard. I don't know if the card would work with ndiswrapper, but I got it to work with madwifi. madwifi supports the atheros chipset (in both 32 and 64 bit environments) and this card uses the atheros chipset. I *believe* in one version, it uses the marvell chipset. The only card that uses the marvell chipset (that I'm aware of) that linux supports is the d-link one. STAY AWAY FROM MARVELL CHIPSETS FOR LINUX!
Download madwifi and install it. I didn't use a .ymp download and just compiled it myself. Once installed, run the following (as root or with sudo):
sudo /sbin/modprobe ath_pci
sudo /sbin/ifconfig ath0 up
sudo /usr/sbin/iwconfig ath0 essid "(your sid value here)"
sudo /sbin/dhclient ath0
The line before the last you probably don't even need as it auto connects to the strongest signal. The last line allows you to get an ip address via dhcp. Check out the newbie howto section of madwifi for the details on getting this far.
So you're connected and everything's all good. However, the next time you boot up, you'll have to do this again. So open up Yast and go to Network Devices then Network Card. You should see the wireless card there. Configure it and make sure you pick the option to have everything started up on boot.
One last note. If you run lspci to check the chipset, it doesn't show up with the word "wireless" in there anywhere. For me (I have rev 1), it showed up as
Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
The first time I stuck in my computer, I didn't notice this line and thought my computer wasn't picking it up. I thought I might have a bum card, so stuck it in one of my windows machines and it worked fine. I stuck it back in my linux box and looked carefully and saw the line.
I haven't had any disconnects and I'm connected to a router one floor and diagonally below me. The speed seems to be what you would expect from broadband, although I haven't benchmarked it. This is my first d-link product and I couldn't be happier.
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Great product in my experiences, November 26, 2007
By R. Manda (USA)
I was simply stunned to see such low ratings for this card. I have installed this card using ubuntu linux, which worked great and effortlessly. I have also installed this card on windows xp, and have had just excellent experiences. It picks up a great signal in areas where other cards don't. I even picked up one of these used from ebay and installed it in an old computer running windows 98, and it worked fantastic. I am really just shocked to see such bad reviews for this card. In my experiences, it has been infallible.
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It's been reliable, November 26, 2007
By M. Orozco (Chino, CA United States)
I've had it over a year now and it's been pretty flawless. Haven't had any issues with it whatsoever.
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Vista Incompatible, May 16, 2007
By David Savageau (Washington, DC United States)
You must first install the software, then shut down, then install card, then power up and configure. Unfortunately, you cannot install the software if you are running any version of Vista. D-Link tech support apologizes for this known issue and suggests downloading their Vista driver Beta which they describe as 'unstable.' Huh?
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This one finally worked, February 6, 2007
By BobM (California)
I have several Linksys wireless adapters, usb, pci, etc that I could never configure with a Linksys wireless cable modem/router. This one worked fine. Go figure. I had to reinstall once when it stopped working by (1) removing software, (2) removing the card, (3) reinstalling software, (4) reinstalling the card. Installing software 1st seems to be an important step.
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very happy. works with linux., January 12, 2007
By petesbbq (phoenix, az USA)
yes, it works with the linux madwifi (atheros: ath_pci) driver. although w/ FC6 is a real pain to configure....eg. i had it working properly w/Network Manager and suddenly, not working again. at any rate it's linux approved! now go forth and b mobile. :-)
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Great Connection...Difficult Setup, January 6, 2007
By reson8 (Islip, NY United States)
Overall, I have a great connection that has not failed in the 4 months I've owned it. The only drawback I had with this is that the install instructions were insufficient and I had to wind up calling customer service. Although I thought this was a pain, they got it to work properly and I have not been dissappinted. I highly recommend getting this product.
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Avoid this junk, December 4, 2006
By Tall Paul (San Diego, CA United States)
Now I see why this thing was only $20 retail. Its a piece of junk. It takes forever to connect to a router that is only 10 feet away. The highest download speed I achieved was 53 Kb/s and I am on a 6 Mb/s network. The latest drivers at the D-Link site are 2 years old. Now I see why there was a big stack of them at the retail store. They are trying to dump all the obselete junk on the consumers. I took it back to exchange for a Linksys
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Great price and it works!, October 20, 2006
By mpkelley20 (Boston, MA United States)
Just picked this up for my older desktop and had it installed and running within 5 minutes. I had previously tried a Linksys card but I could not get it to identify my IP address or stay connected. The D-Link software/driver install was much quicker and I don't have any unnecessary programs running in the background slowing my machine down. I swear that my wireless connection is even faster than my wired connection. Perhaps my standard ethernet card needs replacing as well!
For the price, this one is tough to beat!
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Stable performance, a little bit expensive, August 26, 2006
By lawrence (DE)
This card works great with my linksys router. Even under heavy network triffic, it still works perfectly, no drop. The only problem is the price, which is more expensive than other wireless PCI cards.
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A must Have, June 20, 2006
By Yeye (Nevada)
I bought This item a week ago and it came today, so far it has been great, it is about 40 meters away from my router (wrt54g), it is running in a old computer with windows XP Pro that meets the requirements and the signal strenghts is excellent when i turn my computer sideways and point the antenna to the router otherwise it stays at 3 or 4 bars; I had a little truble installing these card, I couldn't get the damn thing connected to the pci slot, but i think it is my computers fault, it was built from scratch and my uncle sometimes makes mistakes when choosing the right motherboard that will fit inside a small cpu box; I had to unistall my fax moden in order tu make room for this, we don't need it anyways. I think that's all I can say about this card so far,
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Piece of crap, June 12, 2006
By Jacob Z (Richmond, IN USA)
If you don't like seeing the message "Unable to connect to preferred wireless network," then don't waste your time with this God-awful piece of crap. I lose my Internet connection once or twice every single time I'm online.
The other computer in my network is a 6-year-old Dell with a Netgear card, and I have not once lost my connection on it, and the Internet is much faster. My computer is a new eMachines, but with this junky D-Link card, and the Internet is barely usable. Also, the two computers are in adjacent rooms, so range is not a factor at all. They are both running off a Linksys router.
I have had problems with other D-Link products as well. I had a network bridge which I returned because after following all the instructions and calling tech support, it just didn't work. Also, before the Linksys router, I had a D-Link one for about two weeks before I returned it because of its very slow speeds and inability to maintain a connection.
Don't waste your time with D-Link. If you are starting a network from scratch, I would recommend getting all Linksys components.
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D-Link DWL-G510 Wireless PCI Adapter, 802.11g, 54 Mbps, March 18, 2006
By Mark Twain
It's good. I bought it's for my linux machine(Atheros). It works with ndiswrapper module and madwifi drivers(but no support from D-Link). I would like to see native support from the vendors or at least publish the internals so others can write proper drivers for these cards. Buy a card which is natively supported by linux if possible.
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I love this card, March 16, 2006
By White Bear (Eden Prairie, MN)
My PC is eMachines T3114 (AMD Sepron 3100+, 1.80GHz; Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002). I just followed the manual to install the card. It works fine. The signal strength is excellent. The shipment was very fast. I got it in two bussiness days.
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Rock solid, in both Windows and Linux, March 15, 2006
By (Rick) (Manhattan Beach, CA United States)
Bought this to work with a new D-Link DI-524 wireless router. Works great, with the signal cutting diagonally and through the floor of my 2-story suburban house. I am using an old 6db directional patch antenna (from Hawking Technology; I bought it years ago) and the connection is flawless. Tested in both Windows XP SP2 & Ubuntu Linux (Breezy 5.10 & kernel 2.6).
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Works great but installation was below par, February 25, 2006
By Jeffrey A. Koncius
Once installed and configured the card works great with no drops. But, installation was awful--it kept looking for a driver that did not come on the CD that supposedly had all of the drivers. Even though I am very computer saavy, I was stumped and found it only after doing searches on the net for the name of the driver. Luckily, other people have had this problem and someone had posted a fix. An email to customer support was responded to within 24 hours and the driver was sent--but why have a product with a known issue and then not fix it? I am a big D-Link fan but this was disappointing as I wasted over 2 hours of time figuring it out.
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Works well in XP if you set it up correctly, February 6, 2006
By a10thunder (Washington DC, USA)
I've had this card for over a year on my Win2k system and it worked flawlessly. I recently built a new machine running on XP and transplanted the DWL-G510. I know that WinXP has issues with wireless cards so I used the DLink utility software instead. With that setup, my wireless connection would still drop out once in a while, especially if I left the computer on for a long time.
I dug through the DLink support website and found this FAQ: http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=1398&question=dwl%2Dg510+xp for disabling the Wireless Zero Configuration service in XP. Once I did that, my connection has been very reliable, even if I leave the computer on for a day or two.
I would give the adapter 5 stars for price and reliability. However, I had to dig around the DLink support pages to find the config article. DLink should do a better job linking the instruction to the DWL-G510 support page.
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Works fine - in some operating systems., January 28, 2006
By M. Carlson (Fargo, ND)
I purchased this wireless card (specificly the "b" revision) somewhere else about a year ago. I realized then that official drivers exist only for Windows XP. However, I have made it successfully work in Linux and Windows XP x64.
Linux - I use Fedora Core and the madwifi package. Supports the Atheros chipset on the card. You can find the package at rpm.livna.org: http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/x86_64/RPMS.lvn/
Windows XP - the official driver found here: http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=308&pv=66&sec=0
Windows XP x64 - This Gigabyte driver works: http://america.giga-byte.com/Communication/FileList/Driver/64bit_wlan42052bin.zip
I give credit to the folks at PlanetAMD64 for that last one. See the forum post here: http://www.planetamd64.com/lofiversion/index.php/t5287.html
I haven't tried to find something for Windows 98, but I'm curious if gigabyte has something that would work there too...
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DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME, December 27, 2005
By M. Fuhriman (Salt Lake City, UT)
I have just attempted to install this device and failed. I've called customer support and discovered the problem is with the driver they provided in package. Tech support told me to download an updated driver online...but I can't because the "page cannot be displayed" to the download. It's one dead-end after another. Please don't waste YOUR time.
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