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- Reviewed on: 05/15/2006
- Released on: 11/28/2005
Installing and configuring a wireless PC Card adapter is dead simple if you have Windows XP or an equivalent OS. Slide the card into one of your notebook's PC Card slots, load the driver from the installation CD if necessary, and off you go. When you insert the CD, you get Linksys's wireless connection window. Though Linksys plastered the install CD with a big sticker that shouts "Run CD First," you don't have to. We simply inserted the card and popped in the CD when the Windows hardware installation utility started searching for drivers. Either method should serve you equally well.
In conjunction with the WRT54GX4 router, the Linksys WPC54GX4 adapter proved lightning fast in CNET Labs' short-range throughput tests, averaging about 75Mbps at 10 feet. The competing Belkin Pre-N pair logged 45.7Mbps, though the Netgear WPNT511 RangeMax 240 (with its companion router, the Netgear WPNT834 RangeMax 240) beat all comers with a blistering 93.8Mbps. At 200 feet, the combo's performance had fallen significantly to 16.3Mbps, and it did not fare well in a mixed environment either (with 802.11b/g clients), scoring a mere 23.0Mbps.
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