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I had a horrible time getting it up and running, but once it was, it was solid as a rock and amazingly fast compared to what it replaced. We were running an old G router and PCI adapter that dropped the connection every five minutes and you had to wait a minute or two for it to reconnect, and while it was connected it was slow as mollasses. Very frustrating. We finally decided to upgrade to N. I got the Linksys WRT300N (which installed without a hitch) and this PCI adapter. It was a nightmare getting this adapter to talk to the router. We couldn't get the accompanying wizard to recognize the router at all. We talked to three tech support women over a period of 7 hours before the third got it up and running (after struggling with it for an hour) at the highest security level. I never thought they'd get it up, but the third was pretty sharp even though she was constantly surprised that this and that try of hers failed. Finally, she went back go ground zero in both the router and the adapter and then magically it started working!

It is solid as a rock and has yet to drop the signal a single time. It has been constantly connected for about a week now. It is so fast compared to the G we had, it's like everything happens instantly! It even seems like it's faster than the computer that's connected directly to the router, but that computer has gobs more stuff installed on it and is used for C++ software development.

Anyhow, good luck getting it running. Once that happens, you're fat city.

Just plug it in to your PCI port and let vista install the drivers. Don't mess with the Linksys software it only sucks up resources. You can download the latest driver from linksys.com. Unzip it to a folder and then update your driver under the devices screen. When it asks you where you want to search for the driver, point to the folder you just unzipped and it will install it and run great. I think it is funny that there are no PCI adapters with above 3 star ratings because people don't know how to use their computer.

the linksys wireless -n router and pci adap. i purchased lasted about a week then dropped for no reason and wont come back up. ive tried everything i could think of to get a connection again and nothing worked. as far as im concerned ill just stick with a company i trust from now on. (D-LINK) the linksys website sucks. the tech support sucks. the items suck. never again will i buy a linksys item or purchase anything for my pc from amazon.