You can go to to download the latest utility and driver. Save airlink 670w as your airlink101 downloads. I won't say this is 100% true for all brands, but for the most part, Linksys works better with Linksys, Netgear works better with Netgear, etc.After entering the conductive opportunities think hand that model name. Deals can be found on just about any consumer brand, so if you're patient you can get products all from the same manufacturer. Before this I used all Linksys (WRT54G and WPC54G) at home with similar experiences and I was able to stream mounted ISOs through WMP with no issues, but I wanted better throughput, so I switched. I get excellent reception at home and at work (which is running a WRT54G), as well as at my neighbor's (connecting to my router). Eventually I ended up buying a Gigabyte Mini-PCI wireless adapter for my laptop since I had the slot and their card uses the same Super-G chipset that Netgear uses. I use a Netgear Super-G router and for a while I was using their Super-G cardbus adapter in my laptop and had no problems. My experience has been that you're generally better off when you're using products from the same manufacturer and the same model line. IMO linksys adapters are grossly overpriced for what you get it really pisses me off
I'd swear they are the same product, and the linksys software really sucks compared to the airlink101 software. Both are rock solid in term of signal lock, but both suffer from glitches when gaming online (my son is the one who's crying about this). My $10 airlink101 PCI adapter is as good as a $50 linksys that I just bought (which I'm taking back to Fry's).
I'm looking into RMAing it netgear has a 3 year warantee. This is a bummer, because otherwise it's the best for online gaming: it never glitches, except when the signal gets too weak and it punts the link.
My netgear PCI adapter has problems with signal strength, it fluctuates from max to nearly nothing constantly, while the other adapters I've tried at the same physical location are rock solid at max strength. Using the XP monitor, the links have completely stablized.Ģ.
The windows XP wireless assistant is vastly superior to the vendors' supplied monitor/assistant software. Here's what I've done/discovered so far:ġ. What do your signal strength meters show? How many routers do the cards see? Do you have WPA or WEP enabled, and have you tried turning them off? Do you have any of the super-G or hi-speed modes enabled on the router, and have you tried turning them off? Have you updated the firmaware in the router and the cards? Do NOT do this in wireless mode!!! The particular site you connect to most often could be having high traffic at this time of year. Wireless phones, radios, microwave ovens, any electrical device with poor or defective shielding can cause this. Identify and disable every possible electrical device in the building, checking connection ability and speed, more than once, with each device elimination. Isolate to a single router and single wireless card, all others off. Your lack of connection with both products in the same room and the 50% connection rate indicates some sort of severe issue.
Many people will downgrade a product simply because they do not like the color of the box, or because they cannot understand the setup software.Īs with all PC products, everybody occassionally makes a bad model and there is the rare defective product right out of the box. Accurate evaluations must take into account large numbers of reports. Same thing with Ford and Chevy, you can easily find someone with a bad experience with anything. I find no real functional difference between D-link and Linksys, with dozens of field installs of each.