Buffalo Technology WLICBG54S 125 High Speed Mode Wireless Notebook Adapter With AOSS

Average customer rating: 3.5

easy to setup, but range lacking
Dissapointment
Range booster my !@$#!

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Buffalo Technology WLICBG54S 125 High Speed Mode Wireless Notebook Adapter With AOSS

Manufacturer: BUFFALO
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B00028CB9I

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Product Description

Buffalo AirStation G54 Wireless PC Card Network Adapter - This network adapter supports 802.11g and 802.11b wireless networks. Allowing a notebook computer to wirelessly access the Internet, e-mail, transfer files and more! It also features Buffalo's latest wireless technologies: AOSS and 125 High Speed Mode. AOSS stands for AirStation OneTouch Secure System. It literally secures your system with the touch of a button (optional AOSS router required). 125 High Speed Mode boosts transfer rates to levels that are equivalent to 802.11g networks running at 125Mbps!!

Amazon.com Product Description

The WLI-CB-G54S AirStation 125 High Speed Mode Wireless Notebook Adapter offers a fast and flexible client solution for your notebook PC. It also features Buffalo's exclusive AirStation One-Touch Secure System (AOSS) techonology, which enables you to easily setup secure wireless connections to an AOSS-enabled Router. The 32-Bit cardbus technology and 54 Mbps wireless data rates ensure maximum performance. It fits any Notebook PC with an available Type II or Type III PC card slot.

When operating in High Speed Mode, this AirStation achieves an actual throughput of up to 34.1 Mbps, which is the equivalent throughput of a system following 802.11g protocol and operating at a signaling rate of 125Mbps.

What Is AOSS? Setting up a secure wireless network can be too complicated, involving many tedious steps and requiring a certain level of expertise to complete. BuffaloÕs AirStation OneTouch Secure System (AOSS) allows you to create a hi-speed secure wireless connection with a push of a button and a click of the mouse. AOSS automatically detects and configures other AOSS enabled wireless devices and clients and seamlessly creates secure connections. As you add additional devices, security is negotiated at the highest level possible for all devices on the network. Say, for example, that you have one AOSS client that supports both WEP and WPA level encryption, while another client that supports only WEP. The AirStation automatically adjusts the security level to one that both clients will support.

What's in the Box
This package contains the AirStation 125 High Speed Mode Wireless Notebook Adapter, CD-ROM with drivers and manual, and printed Quick Setup Guide. It's backed by 24/7 toll-free tech support and a 2-year warranty.

Tech Talk
<ul>

AES: The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is the U.S. government's next-generation cryptography algorithm, phasing out the older DES format.

TKIP: The next generation of WEP, the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP, pronounced tee-kip) provides per-packet key mixing, a message integrity check and a re-keying mechanism to secure 802.11 wireless LANs.

WEP: A data encryption method used to protect transmission between 802.11 clients and access points, the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) standard is now considered insufficient, with WPA encryption a more secure choice.

WPA: Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) improves the security of 802.11 networks, using 802.1x and EAP to restrict network access and its own encryption (TKIP) to secure data during transmission. </ul>

Customer Reviews:

easy to setup, but range lacking.......2007-06-08

works great at school, but at home barely keeps a connection in my room which is upstairs on the other side of the house from the router. Now, my Apple macbook gets a very low signal as well in my room, but, it is fairly reliable and keeps the connection most of the time. I should mention that I am using the Buffalo router WHR-G54S, which goes along with this adapter card. The range is lacking though in comparison to the Apple Airport.

Dissapointment.......2006-03-01

Not what I hoped for. I already have built in wireless and I was using this as a connector for a canteena. When I made an atempt to use the adapter without the canteena it gave very poor performance.

If you have wireless and want to make it stronger, this is not the product for you. If you need this for use with another wireless booster. I would go for it but only after you check out other deals. I don't think the canteena websites recomend this product for it's performance.

Range booster my !@$#!.......2005-12-18

I bought this to extend the range of my laptop's built-in wifi adapter. I was very upset after the installation, but lemme tell you all step by step.
Installation is very easy under windows XP: pop it in and when prompted insert the cd with drivers. CAUTION: if your laptop has a built-in wifi adapter you will have to disable it first - trust me, it will save you plenty of stress. Two adapters cannot work together for some reason. Disabling one is very easy, and re-enabling it is just the reverse process (control panel - system - hardware - device manager - right click device and choose disable / or enable].
OK, now comes the dissapointing part : the only thing this card will boost is your stress level! Range is MUCH WORSE than that of my built in wifi adapter, and I mean MUCH WORSE. It hardly registers my network at all, and cannot detect any of the neighborhood networks. However, that's where the external antenna jack comes in handy. I purchased a 12dbi cantenna (the Pringles-type can with a special coax cable) - it was commercially produced and set me back by $40. After pointing it in the right direction (cantenna is directional) I can now reach very good signal on this card and am for the most part satisfied. I'm usually connected at 48-54 and at a signal strength at "good". As an example:
My built-in wifi adapter generally connects at 36-48 MBps and "good" signal, detecting additional 7 - 9 networks in the vicinity..
The Buffalo card (without cantenna) connected at 5.5 MBps at the most and signal strength "very low", detecting only my own network and not working in the backyard at all. After installing the cantenna, speed is 48 - 54, signal good or very good, working outside without signal loss. However, detecting neighborhood networks requires reposition of the cantenna to find them (I may look for an omni-direction antenna to simplify the process).
To summarize: Good product, but only when paired with an antenna. Forget about it without one. When used with a cantenna, can be used for wardriving.

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