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Netgear 10MBPS PCI Home PhonelineE Adapter |  |
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| Product Reviews from Amazon.com (Rating System 1 to 5) |
| Review | Rating | Last Updated | Not worth the eventual frustration.
I had written a prior review last March with 5 stars, and it came back to bite me. I had bought 2 of these in April 2002, and they worked great for just about a year. Shortly after I wrote my first review, one just died completely, and about a month later the second one started acting up. Other reviewers have had the same problem with it, and I wouldn't have normally cared, except the aggravation I went through with Netgear. Their tech support at several levels was a total waste of time (several hours and days). Granted, they were all polite on the phone, but it seemed they have a "pre-programmed/robotic" response and trouble shooting steps, which had me going in circles over and over again. Never did any one ever even acknowledge that the card could actually have "died", and thus did not want to stand by their so called "life time warranty". I could only blame myself for going through that tech support charade. I have since abandoned phoneline networking, in favor of wireless. I have put Netgear in the same "outcast" category as Linksys,... and Hail to (that's how I spell networking relief) D-L-I-N-K. | 1 | Today | Excellent product
I bought two of these cards to network both my children's computers which sit in each of their bedrooms at one end of the house. The card physically is very easy to install, provided you have an empty PCI slot (if not, then use PA-101 USB adapter). One computer runs W98SE, and the second runs ME. The driver CD works fine, even better with ME since driver installs automatically. It plugs into any working phone jack, and you're all networked and ready to surf the net. Everything needed is included in the package. You can be on line and still use your phone without any degradation in either signal. The 10X connection is quite fast and not noticeably different than your 10/100 wired ethernet connection. I have a broadband cable modem, hooked to my router. One of my router's LAN ports is hooked a phoneline bridge (Netgear PE102, another great product), and the bridge to a phone jack. I definitely recommend this card, with a bridge, if you want to set up a home phoneline network. | 5 | Today | Can't tell you how bad this thing is
I have gone through 3 of these. Every time there is a power failure while my PC is on, it fries this card. Tried using customer service the 1st time it happened. Took forever to convince them it was fried even though I could prove that it did not work in more than one PC. When the replacement was never delivered (most probably a FedEx problem) company ignored my request to ship a replacement and take the problem up themselves with UPS. This is the last Netgear product I ever buy. | 1 | Today | Stay away from this card!
I bought two of these in September 2001, thinking to network multiple PCs and share a broadband connection. Installation was a pain, requiring me to pin an IRQ in the BIOS for a Windows Me machine. The board ran-- for one day-- and then died. I got the other one working intermittently until I upgraded to Windows XP. Under XP, for one glorius month, everything worked great. In January, my machine locked up and the board stopped working. I tried everything, including doing a complete reinstall of Windows 95 on a spare machine, to determine if it was XP. It wasn't. Neither board worked on a simple Windows 95 setup. I have a computer background and I even tried debugging the device driver initialization before determining that the boards were fried. Buy another vendor's product. | 1 | Today | fragile little board
One little power glitch, and the board is fried. Look for some other networking solution. I have 3 98se machines and an ME machine I attempted to hook together. I've gone through 10! of these boards trying to keep them online. If your digital clocks have ever flashed at you, don't buy this product. You'll be going through these boards like [crazy]. I've been using PC's since 1984, and I've never seen boards fry like this. | 1 | Today | High Failure Rate
I have purchased three of these cards. After a few months two stopped working entirely, for apparent no reason. One day they worked the next day -- nothing. | 1 | Today | Short Lifetime
Pro's Quick easy installation Con's Had product for 6 months and it stopped functioning | 1 | Today | Freezes my computer
The drivers they provide for win2k are quite crash frequent. Just browsing the internet your computer will often crash. I have noticed less frequent lock ups using win 98 but they still hapen. | 1 | Today | 30 HOURS OF HEADACHES!!
I bought two of these cards for a client of mine. He wanted me to set them up on a computer with Win98SE, and another one with WinME. Needless to say, 5 visits and 30 hours later, they STILL don't work. I was able to successfully have the cards see each other and was surfing the net on the client for about an hour, then the network was down. The software included is useless unless you have Windows 95, or Windows 98, FIRST edition. I called Netgear, and they said that the software is incompatible with Windows 98 SE and up, and that no update or alternative was available. One of the cards started coming up as a Broadcom iLine 10 NIC, which is the chipset on the card. I exchanged it with a new one with Amazon, and it worked fine.. until the OTHER ONE had the same problem. Now the card is out of the Win98SE machine, yet it's still detecting a PCI Ethernet Controller! WTF? Anyway, I'm sending these (...) cards back to Amazon for good. Next time, I should look at more than the price of a NIC. And I am DEFINITELY not buying from Netgear again; I waited an hour on hold 3 separate times, only to get a clueless foreigner. | 1 | Today | great product
This product works as advertised. The rates are close to 10MBps and the setup was very easy. If your looking for a phone line wireless adapter, this is a great choice. | 5 | Today |
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