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Had to ask for help from netgear technical support. I choose this adapter because, its much stronger then the one I had. I still had problems getting connected. After founding the right drive to download. I was to happy to order this item, the price was just right and I knew netgear is a good brand. I have 2 reason 1st one. I have use many different brands of adapter and this is the 1st time that I am having this problem. So I have to go thu the whole connecting process again to get the adapter to connect to the internet.
My Laptop is fairly new so I know its not the computer. The adapter starts out working fine, then it will disconnect from the internet and after clicking refresh it will start up again. I was told it would come with a CD disk to install, instead it came with instruction to found disk download, at netgear.com. So I feel there is something wrong with the adapter. They were very nice in helping me getting the adapter to work. Also once the computer is shut down and you turn it back on, the adapter stops working. I wouldn't purchase anything else from this seller. It took over a month to get my purchase and 2 Item is defective.
No Netgear support. I bought this at full retail when it first came out, now at half price, I cannot recommend any netgear products since their website has no accessible drivers to upgrade. You cannot download drivers or firmware for this device anymore. The links do not work. I cannot use this device on a secure connection without the most recent firmware. Bad customer support.
I have a 2 story house with the router and PC with the adapter on separate floors about 30' apart. Now I purchased the netgear wpn111 rangemax and it and the router are working well together. It automatically connects to my encrypted network and gets very good signal (Mostly 4 out of 5 bars. "Low" to "Very Low" signal and sometimes no connection or wireless network available. After all the problems with Belkin stuff I'm happy this one works. Then I tried the Netgear Rangemax Wireless Router with the Belkin card and got "low" up to "Good" signal with only my network available. I tried Belkins G router and adapter; No good. It finds 5 different wireless networks in my area.
After being online a few minutes the adapter got hot and cut out. I had to restart the pc. It does vary from 36 mps to 56 mps at times but it seems to hold the connection OK for web surfing. I've only had it a few days so far but it seems MUCH better than the Belkin stuff.
You do have to install the drivers and Netgear manager before attaching the device. I have a Netgear Rangemax router and XP Home on a desktop PC. The installation and function of this device has been fine. The speed connecting to the internet is the same as the wired speed (which was not all that fast over a cable modem). All of my other wired and wireless devices work fine, too.I did get it on sale from a store as it cost as much (or less) than a cat-5e cable I was going to get instead.As I just purchased this, it appears that Netgear has solved most of the problems that some earlier purchasers had.
Although, Netgear does make some good products this is one product that should never been shipped out of their warehouse. When playing a game online it will lose connection after 15 minutes and then hang until computer restart.As a company owner and a technician I would recommend, D-link. When it does connect there is a excellent signal, but I have found that when I am running wireless N or any other network signal. The device drops signal for no reason every 10 minutes and reconnects. I think its best and will be my next choice in wireless adapters. Netgear firmware is not that good, linksys is just terrible in quality and performance.
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