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D-Link Wireless N USB Adapter
$4.99 + $5 Shipping
Condition: Refurbished

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This is like the third time in this woot off

bloody hell... another one?

Can never have too many.

Goodness gracious, deja woot all night and day!

Next up--PCMCIA network cards.

Personally had this one. Unless this is revision E, pass on it. There were a lot of problems with using it, with or without the dlink connection software. Could never stay locked on if there was more than 3 or 4 signals in range, no matter the channel. Also, the drivers would randomly crash. I got a linksys AE100 now, and it flies.Better buy in the sub-$20 range.

http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-AE1000-Dual-Band-Extension-Refurbished/dp/tags-on-product/B003VYH1UE

well, that's my cue to call it a night. May the Barrels of Crud come up in 9 hrs. ;)

Im so afraid to ask ......
Do these things work?
My Daughter has poor signal in her room.

Ok Im ready.....

note to amazon overlords: offer the Barrels of Crud option at least once a day during woot offs, since woot was taken over, they're really getting on my nerves

I doubt the writeup's "incompatible with Windows 7", personally.
In for two for my older PCs, regardless. As commenter above noted, "can never have too many".
Regardless, I plan to test the unit on my Win7 PC, just to verify it will/won't work. They may just have been made before Win7. Who knows, may just "plug and pray" and work out of the box!

sadsephiroth wrote:Personally had this one. Unless this is revision E, pass on it. There were a lot of problems with using it, with or without the dlink connection software. Could never stay locked on if there was more than 3 or 4 signals in range, no matter the channel. Also, the drivers would randomly crash. I got a linksys AE100 now, and it flies.Better buy in the sub-$20 range.

http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-AE1000-Dual-Band-Extension-Refurbished/dp/tags-on-product/B003VYH1UE

The mistake most people make is trying to use the dlink software to manage the wifi card. Allow Windows to do it and you won't have any problems.

This is a different model than then last time... Apparently Dlink really likes to confuse its customers...

Anyway go to this link http://www.dlink.com/products/default.aspx?pid=DWA-130&tab=3

And click on support resources if it doesn't come, to see the FIVE different hardware versions of this model. Some have windows 7 drivers, some don't. So if someone tells you the MODEL has 7 drivers, this is true, but the one Woot! is selling doesn't. It might work with Vista drivers or some other drivers on 7 if you feel adventurous, but don't expect it to

Ok I did my part, donated $21 US dollars.
in for three

Is this the only item for this woot-off, this time or what?

Seems like this will stay on until this weekend... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I've given up, after watching since the beginning I'm throwing in the towel......until tomorrow.....

kat8480 wrote:Ok I did my part, donated $21 US dollars.
in for three

Uh huh. I think you just wanna rub in that whole "I'm better than everyone else" thing. ;)

stevef2222 wrote:note to amazon overlords: offer the Barrels of Crud option at least once a day during woot offs, since woot was taken over, they're really getting on my nerves

Go to bed, the Bag Of Cannabis is only on the last day and always has been in my experience. On another note, it was Amazon that acquired Woot! not the other way around.

james1027 wrote:The mistake most people make is trying to use the dlink software to manage the wifi card. Allow Windows to do it and you won't have any problems.

Again, WITH OR WITHOUT the Dlink connection software, only Revision E
will work properly. And even then, it's hit or miss. Coming from someone who bought it new, knows what they are talking about, and tried every combination of OS, drivers, software, and tweaking. Please read what you are quoting and responding to.

For anyone wondering about Windows 7 compatibility, I picked one of these up during a previous Wootoff (yes, it was the exact same model) for my upstairs desktop running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I plugged it in, it found drivers on its own, and it's been working perfectly since. I never even touched the software CD.

I'm running a Wireless-N simultaneous dual band (2.4 and 5GHz) network and it's worth noting that this adapter only detects the SSID using the 2.4GHz band. I didn't need it to connect to the 5GHz band so I didn't look into whether or not there was some way to make the adapter pick it up but I'm assuming it's not capable of connecting to 5GHz bands.

This is actually really useful. Any Linux people out here who have wi-fi cards which don't work with Linux? Well, this solves that. There are actually a ton of blog posts out there detailing how to get this to work as a wi-fi card on Linux. Believe it or not, a year ago (before my new laptop), I actually tracked down one of these, so I could get wi-fi to work on my Linux-running laptop.

Good morning everyone.

Ahahahaha, suckers! I just got a solid 6 hours of sleep and didn't even miss the Bra of Cups!

I bought a dual-band n wirless adapter.

It's called a lap-top. My thigh got warm. I went back to hard-wired.

Haven't people figured out yet that the Bag of Cuuuuuute! almost always comes at about the 1:00-3:00PM range, give or take an hour?

This should come in handy for getting older computers on the network in my lab. In for two.

tljx wrote:For anyone wondering about Windows 7 compatibility, I picked one of these up during a previous Wootoff (yes, it was the exact same model) for my upstairs desktop running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I plugged it in, it found drivers on its own, and it's been working perfectly since. I never even touched the software CD.

I'm running a Wireless-N simultaneous dual band (2.4 and 5GHz) network and it's worth noting that this adapter only detects the SSID using the 2.4GHz band. I didn't need it to connect to the 5GHz band so I didn't look into whether or not there was some way to make the adapter pick it up but I'm assuming it's not capable of connecting to 5GHz bands.

Just a side note, I use the 5GHz band for my video channel. I was amazed to find out the Roku 2 units do not support dual band. Plus it appears Roku is just going to end up using HDMI sticks instead of boxes. I ended up buying a pre-Roku2 box (XDS?) so I could expand my video channel at 5 Ghz

When you sell a "Windows only" product pls mention it!