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I bought this unit to replace a more expensive USB adapter that I bought for my daughter's computer. Her computer is about 20 feet from her router. I was thinking it might work better than an older Airlink USB adapter that had always worked for me in the past which was about 10 feet from a router. After many hours of playing around I realised that was a mistake. The more expensive adapter at best worked intermittendly. Should have bought the AirLink in the first place. It installed without a problem and worked the first time and every time thereafter.

I generally expect to get what I pay for...I think I paid $15 for this thing so I really wasn't expecting much from it. Well that's exactly what I got. Even from as little as 7 feet away, my signal strength was under 50% and sometimes would totally go away. I wish I wouldn't have wasted that money - don't waste yours. This is one product Airlink shouldn't have put out.

$13. 45 feet away from the router, and the signal strength lingered between 5% - 15% and, for the most part, would not work. the driver/installation cd's autorun would not work, so i had to go through "explore" to install the drivers off of the cd. if you're within 20 feet from the computer, and want to save money, then maybe you should buy this. if that were the case for me, i still wouldn't. it's just pure junk.

Bought this item locally and paid around $30. Setup with my XP desktop system went well enough and throughput was sufficient to watch videos via the wireless network. But after a week or two of use, I noticed my signal strength steadily dropped from the high 40s initially down to 15-25%. When the signal gets down below about 30% Web pages start loading slowly and videos start buffering more than usual. Also, I noticed that the Airlink adapter would be almost too hot to touch, so I developed the habit of unplugging it when not actually in use, which is a pain. I'm returning this item and will try a PCI adapter next.

I'm a little bit hesitate to purchase this kind of wireless adapter in the beginning since it used to be troublesome for installation. However, I'm a little surprise for the good instruction and easy to install in my Win XP pro. Definitely, I will buy it again.