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WIRELESS CARD BUS ADAPTER 802.11A, 54MPBS, WPC54A | |
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| Product Reviews from Amazon.com (Rating System 1 to 5) |
| Review | Rating | Last Updated | Excellent product, when it works.
I have 12 of these puppies in our network, and I use them with the WAP54A access point. All in all they offer great speed, I typically see the advertised 54 Mbps speed range. The only thing that riles me about the WPC54A is the fact that you will have a hard time making it work with a totally plug and play laptop system.
By that I mean your BIOS will not let you choose IRQ or DMA settings, etc... I have an Inspiron 2600 that will not work with the WPC54A for more than a few minutes before it locks the system up and gives me the blue screen of death.
I narrowed it down to the PNP configuration, it tries to share IRQ 9, and it never has worked right. I think Atheros(the OEM manufacturer)should have given the user more control of the actual firmware and hardware settings of the WPC54A.
In all fairness to Linksys, the card DOES work well with the Inspiron 2500, Solo 9550, Inspiron 5100, Latitude CPI-R, Latitutde Cpt series. These are systems which use a non PNP BIOS, and you can tweak your own system settings. If you don't want to be frustrated, you can just purchase a WUSB54AG. That adapter will work with any system, I have never come across a system that it won't work with.
If you are a power user\technical sort of person, you shouldn't have any trouble with the WPC54A. When you can get it to work, it flies ! | 4 | Today | DO NOT BUY THIS THING--NEW OR USED!!!
These things do not work. I have two of them that I can't get to function in any PC I put them in. I tried them on Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows XP. One of them totally locks up every PC I put them in. I got the other one to work for about 5 minutes and then it has never worked since. | 1 | Today | A Product or Support Issue?
I purchased a Linksys WPC54A and a WAP54A. The WPC54a card will not work. Not under WIN XP, not under WIN 98SE. Calling Linksys tech support (on 3 separate occasions) did not help. They blamed the notebook (a Fujitsu and Acer) or an IRQ incompatibility (although I told them the IRQ used by the WPC54A card was available). Bottom line ... I have 2 Linksys products that do not work. | 1 | Today | WPC54A Review
I am extremely happy with this product and its corresponding WAP54A wireless access point. I would steer clear of the dual-band as I have heard and seen nothing but bad news on that product. I have the WPC54A card for multiple laptops at home, one running Windows ME, one running Windows 98SE, and one running Windows 2000. I have never had a problem and this product is much faster and has a better range that the 2.4GHz products, which I had before the WPC54A and WAP54A came out. | 5 | Today | WPC54A Does not work...
I bought this WPC54A adapter for use with my Linksys WRT51AB access point under Windows XP but was completely unable to get it to work. It always locked up my Gateway Solo 9550 laptop within 10 seconds of plugging it in. I tried the later drivers as per tech support and after that my laptop froze immediately every time upon inserting the card. Tech support suggests that this may be an IRQ conflict, but there is no way to change the IRQ. I returned the card to CompUSA and got a Netgear HA501A card and it worked right out of the box (except turbo mode, apparently it doesn't work well with Windows XP, which by the way, is mentioned nowhere on the box). Bottom line, do your research before you buy and you will see that Linksys has some serious issues to work out with the WPC54A wireless card. Good Luck... | 1 | Today | WPC54A for Christmas :-(
I asked my wife to get me this and the dual-band WAP from Linksys for Christmas. Normally I do my homework and research something before I buy it, in this case I didn't and I got burned. I am seeing a lot of the same problems that have been reported here. I have a Toshiba Satellite running XP. I got the system lockups as well. Updating the driver from the Linksys website (actually a clean install after doing a complete hard restore on the laptop!) seemed to alleviate the lockup problem. Otherwise, the card works fine for a while but eventually stops seeing the WAP (<10'). The behavior is consistent with a temperature problem although once things get hosed, its pretty hard to recover even with things turned off overnight. Swapping slots never really helped. I contacted Lynksys and they are sending me an exchange unit. I didn't spend much time on the phone with tech support before they concluded that I needed to return/exchange it with them. It kind of surprised me at the time that we didn't spend much more time investigating driver versions etc. Now I know why. I also flat out asked him if this was a chronic problem with this card and he apparently lied to me and said "no". We shall see how the replacement unit works. I am not very optimistic. I purchased it through Compusa.com and they have a piddly 14 day return/exchange policy so at this point my fate lies with Linksys. What a disapppointment. BTW, I also purchased an airport card for my iBook and it has not had a single issue working with the Linksys WAP (using 802.11b). Maybe all the Mac crazies aren't that off the mark? | 1 | Today | Tablet PC Woes with WPC54A
I spent many hours with Linksys Tech trying resolve be inability to make a connection with this card in my ACER Tablet PC running XP Pro all to no avail. The last time I tried to get some result, it locked up and I got a Stop Error message. From what I see in the other reviews, I see it isn't something I'm doing but simply a bad product. Too bad because usually Linksys is a good product. I had a dead out of the box DLINK card also in the 802.11a speed so clearly the chipsets at this level aren't totally debugged. Stay clear of this card. | 1 | Today | Unending pain and suffering
I've had pretty good luck with other Linksys products in the past, but this thing will drive you insane. I am using a Dell Inspiron 8200 with XP Home Edition and the new Linksys dual band AP. One day it works, the next day it won't...literally. Lots of bluescreens and hangups. Sometimes XP doesn't even see the hardware in Device Manager?!? I found swapping the PCMCIA slot seems to help sometimes, but the connection is pretty unstable even when you are in the same room as the AP. I've tried changing the channels, SSID, and WAP keys, but the bad behavoir continues. Tech support is clueless..they just lecture you on how you have to be within range of the AP...I'm 3 feet away, not in a lead bunker! Now I am stuck with ..useless hardware. My suggestion? Go buy yourself 100' of cat5 cable and you will be a lot happier. | 1 | Today | This card ...... and it's not a Linksys issue....or is it?
I am trying to use this wireless card in a Dell Latitude C810. Big mistake. This card merely causes the system to hard lock up and a reboot is necessary to get it back. Upgrading the BIOS had no effect. Apparently, D-Link is having the same issues with their card based on the same Atheros chipset. I am now stuck with a piece of junk which I can't sell and can't use. Very nice. Atheros, Linksys, D-link....get your stuff together!!! | 1 | Today | WPC54A problems.
The card installed properly with the shipped drivers on a Win98SE machine, but file transfers stopped every 6-8 seconds for 1 to 2 seconds. Just enough to sometimes disconnect the remote machine. New drivers on Linksys Web page (1.04.00.39) fixed the problem, but disabled Turbo Mode. A call to Linksys confirmed that Turbo Mode has been disabled in the Drivers (at least for Win98SE). A few days later the card began to fail when hot. My retailer swapped the card for a new one. I patched the registry, changing "Turbo Mode" from 0 to 1, and now everything works O.K. | 1 | Today |
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