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Xtreme N Wireless Cardbus,adapter, Draft 802.11N

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
(5 out of 5)

Great Card

Aug 4, 2007 - By Derek Ashton Beasley (Ventura, CA)

Ok, the other reviews of this product weren't that helpfull for me previous to my purchase of this product so i thought i'd throw in my two cents. I'm using this card to replace my old Linksys card which wasn't giving a whole lot of range or power and replacing my old liksys router. I'm now using the DIR-655 in conjunction with this card and i'm getting exceptional range! 300mbps at the fence of my property about 150 linear feet away through multiple walls. The card itself is able to detect networks from a lot farther range than my previous card. I'm very pleased with my purchase. Hope this helps others out. Good Luck.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
(1 out of 5)

Does not seem to like Vista

Aug 9, 2007 - By Aaron William Lewis

Installing it went fine, connected to my network smoothly. Then I noticed one of my two CPU cores was just sitting at 100% utilization. As soon as I disabled the card it would drop down to near 0% again. Website is near useless for this product, one Beta driver (that wouldn't install at all), no knowlege base entries, etc. I suspect d-link is just slow at getting vista enabled drivers out. Sent an e-mail off to D-link, but I'm probably going to send it back.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
(5 out of 5)

Works Great - 300 Mbps WiFi Connections.

Aug 17, 2007 - By Dave E. (Hardwick, New Jersey USA)

I use this in conjunction with my DSL service and couldn't be more satisfied. For home use, I have a 24" iMac which I have connected to an Apple AirPort Extreme base station via built-in ethernet (i.e - hard wired). For work, I have a Toshiba laptop, TWO STORIES UP, and connect via WiFi to the AirPort base station. The laptop is running Windows XP SP2. I use a D-Link DWA-652 notebook adapter and CONSISTENTLY connect at 300.0 Mbps! Both the AirPort base station and the D-Link adapter are built on the 802.11n draft, and work great together. ONE BIG BUT (so to speak)...the 802.11n draft does NOT support WEP encryption. You can still connect with WEP enabled, but it will be at 802.11g-like speeds (i.e. - 56Mbps). Not using WEP has its obvious disadvantages, but the WiFi connection speed of 300.0 Mbps is outstanding.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
(5 out of 5)

Great card, especially when in use with the DIR-655!

Mar 6, 2007 - By Michael Powell (Ohio, USA)

First of all this is a receiver of a wireless signal, NOT a transmitter! The guy above A.K. Smith "buddyroo" has no idea how wireless networking actually works. The reason he didn't get any improvement is because the signal he's trying to receive is the SAME! The signal at the college would need updated to a wireless N signal to improve the range transmission! If you want to boost the signal, set up a wireless repeater to boost the college signal (if that is even possible, depending on thier set up.) Notwithstanding the above, this is a great card. And if you plan on buying the new DIR-855 when is comes out soon, you'll already have a compatible card!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
(5 out of 5)

Stronger Wireless Reception

Jun 26, 2007 - By Thomas A. Belleman (USA)

This card has proven to be much stronger and faster than my previous cards. I would recommend it to anyone looking to increase the speed, as long as they have the wireless hub to push out the signal.