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Xtreme N Express Card Adapter | List Price: $99.99
Discount Price: $67.49
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Brand: D-Link
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Delivers up to 14x faster speeds and 6x farther range than 802.11g
- Xtreme N technology enables HD video streaming, file sharing, enhanced Internet phone calling (VoIP), and surfing the Web
- Access secure wireless networks using advanced WEP, WPA, or WPA2 encryption
- Easy to install and use with D-Link's new Quick Adapter Setup Wizard
- Backward compatible with existing 802.11g and 802.11b network
Maybe it's just me but.. [Posted on 2008-04-08]
Maybe it's just me but I went through 2 of these cards on my new HP laptops.. I say laptop(S) because I received the 1st D-Link card at the time I bought my new HP.. Installed the card using the D-Link software and nothing.. Called D-Link and talked to a tech.. He declared the card was bad because the lite wouldn't come on.. Sent the card back and much to Amazon's credit, I had a replacement in 2 days (very happy with their service).. Tried to install new card and samething, no lite to indicate it was working.. Decided the laptop must have issues so I sent it back and got a new one (happy with HP's service as well).. Got the new laptop and tried to install the card.. Again nothing.. No lites, no connection etc.. Called D-Link once again.. Same answer from t/s, send it back.. Like I said, maybe it's just me but I can't recommend this card after the poor D'Link t/s and the fact that I was never able to get 2 different cards working in 2 different pc's..
PS.. Both laptops were/are running Vista.. Not sure if that plays into it because God knows I've had my own issues with Vista as well..
N Speed Extreme [Posted on 2008-04-10]
I'm very happy this this card. I have a D-Link Pre-N router (DIR-655) and the speed increase is amazing, even with only 6megs of internet to work with.
Its so so [Posted on 2008-04-14]
I looked at the this after my 1505 experience with Dell's N wireless. 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. On writing the 1505 was about 3.2mbs and the DWA643 was about 6mbs. However I noticed the DWA643 dropping and totally failed and diconnected a few times. The 1505 was fine and sat at the same speed. To be honest I felt the DWA643 was somewhat flakey.
Works Great! [Posted on 2008-07-29]
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. The directions don't tell you to do that. Otherwise, it won't connect. Makes sense.
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.
Computer couldn't be shut down with this card installed! [Posted on 2008-08-28]
I installed the latest drivers via the dlink website as of this writing. The card worked wonderfully, far more range than my g card. Signal strength was excellent. 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. How frustrating. I've read where another person had this exact same flaw happen with their HP notebook. It must be an incompatibility with HP notebooks and at least this expresscard. 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. Give me some good luck with my next expresscard, the linksys, fingers crossed.
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