D-Link DWL-500 11Mb Wireless LAN PCI Network Card

List Price: $129.99 Discount Price: $20.00

Features:

• High-speed 11 Mbps Ethernet wireless network adapter
• Share hard drives, printers, and a modem for Internet access
• For desktop PCs
• Indoor range of 115 to 328 feet; outdoor range of 328 to 984 feet
• PCI local bus 2.2 compliant

Customer Reviews:

No Signal [Posted on 2001-10-29]
I just purchaced this product yesterday. Installation went well(both with the DWL-500 and DWl-120). I have yet to get a signal through even though i have been trying for over a day now. This might not be the best product for the novice user unless you are buying the access point with it.

Does not work with NT 4.0 [Posted on 2002-01-05]
I tried this product with NT 4.0 and it does not work. It claims to have conflicting interuppts when there are none.

IRQ Problems [Posted on 2002-02-20]
I bought the D-Link DWL-500 and tried to install in my new Dell Dimension 4400 running XP. Initial instalation went okay but subsequently was unable to re-boot...got blue screen of death specifying IRQ conflict with card in. If I removed card, computer would boot, but would freeze if I pushed the card in. Called D-Link support who told me to call motherboard manufacturer. Tried removing other cards (modem, sound card) to see if I could get DWL card to work, hoping then to reinstall others, but no luck. De-installed all software/hardware. Still get a system error message on re-boot! I have seen others say they used DWL with XP but I haven't been able to.

I bought them despite poor reviews... [Posted on 2002-02-27]
I bought a pair of DWL-500 and an SMC7004AWBR router over the weekend. I put DWL-500 on both Windows ME and XP with little difficulties. I did have fairly loaded systems so it took me a while to free an IRQ on the system running XP. After that, it was only a matter of installing drivers, PCI card, and then it's all done. Installation on ME was only a series of reboots due to the architecture of ME. Both systems perform well so far; I haven't experienced any reset or interruptions. I am pretty satisfied with

An old and neglected product [Posted on 2003-01-29]
I have used this card (PCI adapter and PCMIA card) with win 98 and had no real problems except for a weak reception, but it thought that had something to do with the fact that its an old pc
which probably causes a lot of electromagnetic interference.
Changing to a newer Pc, i decided to use win XP. The drivers for
XP, do not really work properly. You can't boot up the system.
Ok so we start again, with win2000 this time. Everything seemed to work fine. Allthough uninstalling previous installation of the
drivers is near impossible. Ýour have to mess around in the registry (don't like that). Nervertheless it seemed to work, then I noticed that the connection was interupted (eventhough it says it has a strong signal) after about 5 min.. After a reboot of the PC or the gateway it worked again. Funny so i try to reinstall the drivers and to my horror now windows wont boot up (as xp did) with the cards in the pc.
This is not good enough.... If i can make decent drivers for win98 then I could do the same for 2000 or XP right.

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