D-Link AirPlus DWL-650+ Wireless 22 Mbps PC Card

Average customer rating: 3.5

Great item, works out of the box
Warning - this card uses old technology
cheap, but bad quality
Does the job, just not recommend for a secure link
Not recomended for Linux users

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D-Link AirPlus DWL-650+ Wireless 22 Mbps PC Card

Manufacturer: D-Link Systems, Inc.
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000068UY7

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Product Description

The D-Link AirPlus DWL-650+ CardBus Adapter is an enhanced 802.11b CardBus featuring advanced silicon chip design from Texas Instruments that utilizes their patented Digital Signal Processing technology. The DWL-650+ is fully compatible with the IEEE 802.11b standard making it interoperable with all existing 802.11b compliant devices. When connected to standard 802.11b devices, transfer rates can be up to 20%. When connected to other D-Link AirPlus products, the performance is even greater - up to 22Mbps! The DWL-650+ also features 256-bit WEP encryption providing you a higher level of security for your data and communications. The D-Link AirPlus DWL-650+ also includes a configuration utility to discover available wireless networks and create and save detailed connectivity profiles for those networks most often accessed. The DWL-650+ is a powerful 32-bit CardBus Adapter that installs quickly and easily into laptop PCs and when used with other D-Link AirPlus products automatically connects to the network. And all D-Link wireless adapters can be used in ad-hoc mode to connect directly with other cards or in infrastructure mode to connect with a wireless access point for access to the Internet in your office or home network.

Amazon.com Product Description

The DWL-650+ is an enhanced 802.11b CardBus that is fully compatible with the IEEE 802.11b standard, making it interoperable with all existing 802.11b-compliant devices. Now you can transfer files or communicate up to 20 percent faster than with earlier 802.11b solutions, even when connected to a standard 802.11b network. When you're connected to other D-Link AirPlus products, the performance is even greater--up to 22 Mbps. The DWL-650+ also features 256-bit WEP encryption, giving you a higher level of security for your data and communications.

The D-Link AirPlus DWL-650+ also includes a configuration utility to discover available wireless networks and create and save detailed connectivity profiles for those networks accessed most often. The DWL-650+ is a powerful 32-bit CardBus adapter that installs quickly and easily on laptop PCs, and, when used with other D-Link AirPlus products, automatically connects to the network. And all D-Link wireless adapters can be used in ad hoc mode to connect directly with other cards, or in infrastructure mode to connect with a wireless access point for access to the Internet in an office or home network.

Customer Reviews:

Great item, works out of the box.......2007-05-27

Bought this card to use in my Linux laptop. I must say it works flawlessly out of the box, totally supported by the OS, no need to install drivers.

Warning - this card uses old technology.......2006-05-03

I have this card, which I bought in early 2003. It's served me fine. However, our wireless access has been updated to current standards using WPA-PSK (Personal) with AES coding (This is the "WPA2" standard.)

If you're sure you'll be using the old WEP - or even WPA-PSK with TKIP - I think this will work for you.

But if you'll be upgrading to the latest standard, this will be a throw-away - I even called DLink and they said to buy a new card.

cheap, but bad quality.......2005-11-21

We bought three of these cards and I cannot recommend them. The 22Mbps and 256-bit WEP encryption features cannot be used unless you have a special D-Link access point. But you can always use it as a classic 802.11b 11Mbps card.

However, our cards often did not recover well when the laptop was reactivated from suspended mode. A firmware update from www.d-link.com, which adds the WPA security feature, didn't make things better. My laptop actually started to freeze every once in a while. To make things worse one of the cards broke down after a year only.

I have been using Belkin Wireless 54Mbps Notebook Adapters since and they have proven to work very well. I recommend spending a few extra bucks to get a card of better quality.

Does the job, just not recommend for a secure link.......2005-10-06

Having been given some of these cards I've found them to be quite irratic if you secure your access point.

Yes the 256bits WEP works but you really should think about getting WPA instead.

The range of the card is about OK although if on your wireless router you choose to 'not broadcast the SSID' then even if you explictly list this in the connection you will find it starts to connect and disconnect and become quite frustrating.

If you are lucky you can enable this and limit your router access based by MAC and combined with the 256bit WEP should be secure enough for home usage.

Dont by cheap buy Netgear!

I bought the DG834GT what a truely excellent wireless router this is!

Had bad experiences with DLINK in the past, linksys are also as troublesome!

Not recomended for Linux users.......2005-09-26

This card uses the TI ACX100 chipset. There is no supported Linux driver from TI or DLink for this chipset.
The card works fine with Windows XP, although the range seems to be somewhat limited. I can use it upto about 30 feet, but it is going thought a wall. My overall impression is that it is basically a trouble free card with Windows.
There is a number of people working to create a GPLed driver for Linux which seems to work. There is sufficent info on the internet to figure it out if you have the time. It would be nice to see offically supported Linux drivers from DLink.

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