Xtreme N Express Card Adapter | List Price: $99.99
Discount Price: $62.99
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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
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.
Fails To Meet Performance Claims [Posted on 2008-10-15]
Installed the product in a fast Toshiba laptop running Vista. Product would only connect to my D-Link wireless-n router at 130Mbps. Calls to D-Link support have not helped. D-Link cardbus adapter in a much older/slower laptop connects at 300Mbps
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