2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Simple, fast, and easy....and it works.,
January 17, 2011 D. Squires (Northern WI up by Da U.P.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Belkin Basic Wireless USB (Personal Computers)
After reading reviews on a lot of USB wireless adapters, I came away with the idea that quality control is a real issue. No matter what brand you buy, they all have issues. I've had generally good luck with Belkin stuff, so I bought one of these to hook my HP Desktop with XP SP3 to my Palm Pixie Hotspot. Because of all the horror stories I've read, I did an image backup of my system first, but I didn't need it. I followed the directions by letting the CD do its install, then plugged in the wireless adapter when prompted. Not only did it work without a hitch, but it is slightly faster than my HP Elitebook's built-in wireless. I haven't really pushed the distance aspect yet, as my Hotspot is fairly close by. I just leave it plugged in, and connect off the bottom task bar whenever I have a need for fast Internet. They make fancier, but for what I was looking for, it works great. I might need faster when 4G comes out, but with 3G, it's simple, fast, and easy.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
WIFI made easy,
February 18, 2011 o2fnlow - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Belkin Basic Wireless USB (Personal Computers)
This was my third attempt to add a USB WIFI adapter to my desktop computer. Two other brand name adapters had numerous driver issues. The adapters would never find a signal. Running Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit os. This was completed in less time than it took to reboot after the install. Running a Linksys WRT54g dd-wrt this was hitting 48 MB/S. [...]
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