D-Link DWL-650 Wireless PCMCIA $29.99 shipped AMAZON

[may]

Got from techbargain.. Seems to be a good price. Free shipping. You can get extra $5 stuff for free from your favorate coupon site.. I put in rechargable batteries..

link

External Antenna

 

[simbawang]

Why does the card in Amazon look completely different compare to the card elsewhere? (the antenna part)? They do seem to have the same product ID number.

 

[CalcMan]

I saw this a little bit earlier and was thinking the same thing about the images, just weird I guess.


Also what is that extra $5 thing?

 

[may]

Originally posted by: CalcMan
I saw this a little bit earlier and was thinking the same thing about the images, just weird I guess. Also what is that extra $5 thing?

There is a 5 off $35 coupon..

 

[funnyfenix]

just curious, what is that external antenna gonna do?

 

[Fiveohhh]

Originally posted by: funnyfenix
just curious, what is that external antenna gonna do?

give ya more range

 

[tommytran]

Originally posted by: funnyfenix
just curious, what is that external antenna gonna do?

may be .... upgrade to TV card in future

 

[QTPie]

It's look exactly the same as the image from D-Link

I'm not sure if D-Link is reliable?

 

[Orium]

If you read the Customer Reviews at Amazon you can see why this card is so cheap.

Here's an informative one, hope it helps

Reviewer: An electronics fan from Skaneateles, NY USA
If all you want to do is use your laptop on the front porch, or in an unwired office at work, this adapter may be fine. But if you were lured into wireless by the promise of high speed internet access in airports, hotels, coffee shops and such, it is virtually worthless. To connect to a network, the DWL-650 must be specifically configured to have the same SSID (identifying name) as the network. That is fine if you only connect to one network and you know its SSID. It is a nuisance if you want to connect to several networks and have to reconfigure each time. It is fatal, however, if you want to connect to a strange network and do not know the SSID. Networks that are intended to be open to the public use "broadcast SSID" to send the network ID over the airwaves. Adapters that can receive broadcast SSID can then automatically configure themselves to log on. The DWL-650 cannot do that, and there are plenty of other comparably priced adapters that can.

 

[jsfiat]

Thanks, had a 20.00 GC which made this very hot for me