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Avoid D-Link products
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Seaford, Virginia
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All, I just threw away my D-Link USB Wireless adaptor. I have an older G3 Powerbook that doesn't have built in wireless, so a week ago I bought that D-Link product. AVOID IT AT ALL COSTS!!!! I can't stress this enough. I have had nothing but problems since I started using it. About every 5 to 10 minutes, it would lock my OS up, and lock it up HARD. I had to force power down the laptop. It would boot up into OS 9, so I had to choose the OS X startup disk and then reboot again. The past four or five times this would happen, it would kill my OS X partition. I just spent 2 hours trying to get my OS X partition to work again.
So now the adaptor and the cd rom or sitting on top of the garbage can next to the empty packets of soft cat food that I just opened up to feed my hungry kitties.
So avoid this thing at all costs!!!!!!!
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
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DO NOT AVOID ALL D-LINK PRODUCTS.
My D-Link DI-624 802.11g WLAN router has been absolutely flawless - fast, reliable, etc. - and it cured the freezing problems I had when I was still using the iMac's built-in Airport card.
The problem should be rephrased:
AVOID USB NETWORKING PRODUCTS LIKE THE PLAGUE!
NETWORKING VIA USB DOES *NOT* WORK.
That said, have you downloaded the most current drivers?
Your Powerbook should have a PCMCIA slot, right? Get yourself a $20 Orinoco card or something off eBay. They work.
-s*
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Seaford, Virginia
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What kind of card do you recommend that I can get at Best Buy or Compusa today? I need something and I need it now. Will those pc cards work on OS X 10.2.8?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Why do you care?
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Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
DO NOT AVOID ALL D-LINK PRODUCTS.
My D-Link DI-624 802.11g WLAN router has been absolutely flawless - fast, reliable, etc. - and it cured the freezing problems I had when I was still using the iMac's built-in Airport card.
The problem should be rephrased:
AVOID USB NETWORKING PRODUCTS LIKE THE PLAGUE!
NETWORKING VIA USB DOES *NOT* WORK.
That said, have you downloaded the most current drivers?
Your Powerbook should have a PCMCIA slot, right? Get yourself a $20 Orinoco card or something off eBay. They work.
-s*
 My D-Link DI-624 router works great as well. It's funny how one person has a bad experience with ONE product and forever boycotts a company. If that were the case, I think everyone on these boards would not use Apple products. 
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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All networking topics belong in the Networking forum.
tooki
P.S. I also hade a DI-624, and it works great.
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