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Occasionally, it will not turn on and connect in this situation, requiring a reboot. It consistently connects at 54.0Mbps, though it takes a moment to search and connect when resuming the computer from hibernation. For the price, this card works for what it is needed for, connecting a desktop from one room to a another room where my cable modem is. They are separated by one floor vertically and about 15ft horizontally.
i bought 4 more for my friends to do the same. this card works great.i use it with super cantena and get about 1/2 t0 3/4 mile from access point.wonderful product.
Moving the antenna around did not increase the signal strength appreciably. I bought this card for a Dell desktop when i setting up a wireless network in my house. Thus, I would so don't buy this card as it is a waste of money. Even when the wireless router was placed about 10 feet from the computer (with no obstructions between the card and the router), it still did not show the strongest signal possible. Installing the wireless card into the computer wasn't that difficult and installing the drivers/software was a fairly painless process. However, the card had very poor reception and only detected a very weak signal and would continually lose the signal all together.
Have tried tinkering with settings, updating drivers, and so on, all to no avail. Bought this for a computer running XP Home, and so far, it barely works. Constantly drops the connection and requires it to be repaired.
Tell windows that you want to install from a specific location and browse to the folder. Driver can be found at Realtek's site. It created a software error when I installed it - "Microsoft Kill Process Utility" created a fault. It will install the drivers, and then you can use the standard windows wireless manager to take care of connecting to your network. I also went into device manager and turned off the Let Windows Turn Off this Device to Save Power function.Seems to work better now, but still drops off unexpectedly. I uninstalled the supplied software and downloaded the software from the chip manufacturer - Realtek RTL8185L. Unzip the file to a temporary folder, install the card.
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