Great, but NOT Vista ReadyDecember 28, 2007 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Easy to install, and works wonderfully with XP. After hours with Tech Support, had to give up on Vista.
Vista Home Premium 32 - Bad TripDecember 1, 2007 2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Install hardware first,load the software next, (which you better have downloaded before hand if your running Vista as this thing ships without Vista anything.) then machine locks up and finally it appeard that my video card freaked out and I had what appeard to be a very colorful mini- blind effect from top to bottom of my screen.
This is on a machine that is running Vista Home Premium 32 .I cannot say if you would have any better luck running 64 or any of the other flavors of Vista.
The card looked like it was put together nice and I was very disapointed when I called customer support and they did not know anything more about there product then I did. After 5 minutes or so, they told me the adapter was defective and to send it back.
The new card came and I installed the hardware,loaded the software that I had downloaded while I still had an internet connection.Within seconds the same things as before happened.The computer which ran great just minutes before, locked up and then the video card freaked out with a colorful mini-blind effect running from the top to the bottom of the screen.
I got back on the phone and tried to slip my way around the first line of defense that they put up front at D-Link customer support.The person I spoke to told me it was my computer and that I needed to talk to the computer manufacturer and that they couldnt help me any longer.
I thought about that for a bit and figured that if D-Link does not want to help me with a product they designed, which they claim works with Vista, then why would the company who made my computer which is actually working fine( until I put D-Links after market hardware/software inside it.) feel any desire or compasion to provide support.
I demanded to speak to another customer support person and thought that maybe I would get bumped up to the next tier,the second level of support tech only to find that to my sorrow that I was in a D-Link loop and that there was no second level. All of there customer support people had the same skills.
Is this a good product?....without a doubt. Is it Vista friendly?....Maybe? It tried to kill my machine though! Does D-Link have good customer support?....NO.My great grandmother could probably get hired on with them.
Software/Harware companies need to invest more time and money into proving there product is compatable with Vista 32/64, before putting there stuff out there with a Vista sticker on the box.
Cudos to Amazon for taking care of me thru this unpleasent experiance.
Xtreme N Pci Adapter RocksOctober 21, 2007 3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Replacing the g standard pci adapter in my wife's desktop computer with this n standard adapter increased the speed of transmissions between her computer and the D-Link DIR-655 wireless router from 54 mbps to 300 mbps. Her system is Windows XP and mine is Windows Vista. Now her browsing the Internet is almost as speedy as mine, which is connected to a cable modem through the DIR-655. An excellent buy.
801.11nSeptember 19, 2007 3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This device does not give any wheres near the double the range in my environment over a 801.11G product so I returned it.
Great performer- tough set up with VISTAAugust 15, 2007 3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I had the DIR 655 router set up and working great with four different wireless computers all using Windows XP. I then got a new computer with Windows VISTA. I installed the N Pci adapter in the old computer. Installation of the 655 with the new computer was effortless, the N Pci went into the old computer and immediately found my network. Great- until I tried to connect. Several calls to Dell, Microsoft, and D-Link later, including an apparently unnecessary software patch, a router firmware update, several resets and reloads, I could not get any wireless connection on any computer. I unplugged everything and waited 24 hours. When I restarted after the long power off period, everything started working. I get great signal strength and very fast data rates. Except for the apparent conflicts between XP and Vista, I am happy.
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