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This product does not seat properly into Express card slots. As a result this adapter frequently dislodges causing network disconnects.
Installed the product in a fast Toshiba laptop running Vista. Product would only connect to my D-Link wireless-n router at 130Mbps. Calls to D-Link support have not helped. D-Link cardbus adapter in a much older/slower laptop connects at 300Mbps
BTW, everything was updated on the notebook, ie Service Pack 1, and all the HP updates including the latest notebook bios firmware.I thought about just pulling it whenever I shut down, but ruled against that because I paid for this thing to work better than that. I've read where another person had this exact same flaw happen with their HP notebook.
The card worked wonderfully, far more range than my g card. Signal strength was excellent.
I installed the latest drivers via the dlink website as of this writing. How frustrating.
It was great until I went to shutdown my Vista HP notebook. It would restart everytime unless I physically pulled out this card before shutting down.I even went so far as a fresh install, same exact thing, restart on shut down everytime.
It must be an incompatibility with HP notebooks and at least this expresscard. Give me some good luck with my next expresscard, the linksys, fingers crossed.
The Xtreme N Express Card installed with no problem, except afterward you need to go to "Connect" on your start menu, and find your home wireless network, and then click on it. Makes sense. The directions don't tell you to do that. Otherwise, it won't connect. It had all the VISTA drivers, so it was really no problem to install, and works fine. It is defintely faster than the G connector that came installed on my laptop.
On writing the 1505 was about 3.2mbs and the DWA643 was about 6mbs. I looked at the this after my 1505 experience with Dell's N wireless. However I noticed the DWA643 dropping and totally failed and diconnected a few times. I have a Dlink 655 router and tested this card against the Dell 1505. On reading from a Dlink NAS (1gb) over a 1gig connection between the NAS and the router and a N network the 1505 was acheiving 6mbs and so was the DWA643. The 1505 was fine and sat at the same speed. To be honest I felt the DWA643 was somewhat flakey.
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