D-Link AirPlus DWL-650+ Wireless 22 Mbps PC Card
- price: $59.99
SKU: 650+
Sales Rank: 3542
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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.
Product Specification
- Binding:
- Electronics
- Brand:
- D-Link
- EAN:
- 0790069244452
- Feature:
- 3-year warranty
Up to 22 Mbps with AirPlus products
Fully 802.11b compatible
Higher data encryption (64/128/256-bit)
For laptop computers - Label:
- D-Link Systems, Inc.
- Manufacturer:
- D-Link Systems, Inc.
- Model:
- 650+
- NetworkInterfaceDescription:
- CardBus
- NumberOfItems:
- 1
- Platform:
- Windows NT
Windows
Windows 2000 Server
Windows XP
Windows Me
Windows NT 5
Windows NT 4
Windows NT 3.5
Windows 2000
Windows 98 - ProductGroup:
- CE
- Publisher:
- D-Link Systems, Inc.
- Studio:
- D-Link Systems, Inc.
- Title:
- D-Link AirPlus DWL-650+ Wireless 22 Mbps PC Card
- UPC:
- 790069244452
- Warranty:
- 3 years warranty
- MPN:
- DWL-650+
Customer Reviews
Warning - this card uses old technology
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....
5/2/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
cheap, but bad quality
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...
11/21/2005 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
Does the job, just not recommend for a secure link
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...
10/6/2005 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
Not recomended for Linux users
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...
9/26/2005 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
Worth the money!
I have had this card for about 6 months now and it works very well even after when there have been physical damages to it. Only problem I noticed is that it consumes more power....
2/1/2005 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
