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A great 802.11b laptop wireless card that allows for easy connection of an external antenna.
I'd recommend scrapping the software it comes with, and just using the WiFi capabilities of your OS, if they offer them. By far the best wireless card I've seen in use. I don't see myself using any WiFi cards aside from the Orinoco series. Also has support for an external antenna, to further extend your effective signal reception. I get signals well outside the range of any of my friends and colleagues. Driver support in virtually any OS and its also supported by NetStumbler for wardriving or general network detection.
I doubt it makes much difference in range, but it looks very geeky and I like that. I bought the card, put it in my XP Professional and it worked, no fuss, no muss. I can even attach an extension antenna to it.
Even the software that came with the card indicates it is working properly. Tech support is about a joke. The software for this card is the worst. I've tried everything including changing TCP/IP settings directly and the card will not connect with the 614+. After fighting with this card for hours I went and got a Microsoft USB and it ran 5 minutes out of the box. I noticed in another review someone had good luck running it with a D-Link 614+ router, I could never get it to connect. Maybe it's a Windows 98 issue but there is no conflict with card as far as 98 goes.
After more then a month, network works just fine with the all above components. Again, using Network Connection option in XP, computer practically connected itself to the network and I was able to share both Internet connection and files/printer accross the house. Haven't tried 128 bit encryption yet. I recently purchased Dell Inspiron 5100 notebook and LinkSys wireless access point router BEFW11S4 with intention to build a simple network of two computers (one wireless and one direct line). This card is great. After that, I connected the Inspiron (direct cable to the router), run network Wizard in Win XP and established connection between both computers and Internet. Connected the router with my desktop computer first, followed setup instructions (router manual) and got connected to the Internet in no time (have Motorola cable modem SB4200). As the last step, I installed the Orinoco software, disconnected Inspiron and router and inserted Orinoco Gold card into Inspiron.
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