coolman01231 wrote:Like most DIYers and pseudo-geeks, I've learned that all "quick upgrades" are really Trojan horses; nervous breakdowns in a box. Days later and exhausted on the floor from error messages, tech guys with foreign accents saying that rebooting will fix everything after a 2 hour wait on a telephone cue before your call gets cut off mysteriously. So I usually take a week off, put on a sweat band and have sedatives in reach. I did due diligence and found this product to have relatively good reviews so picked it up. (Sorry Amazon, this one time Best Buy actually had a better price!) My home network connects a Tivo, SlingBox, Vista Laptop, voip telephone, all-in-one printer via an Apple Airport Extreme hub. This D-Link was to try to cut the wires on my XP desktop to distance the spaghetti of wires from external hard drives etc. and a tethered printer. OK, those details aside, I installed the drivers via the supplied CD, chose the "manual" installation choice, typed in the name of my network and security password....."great Scott, Marty"....it was on line in an instant! OK, this should be the norm in installing things. But we all know when it does happen, shock and awe wash over us like the "08" Beijing Olympics opening ceremony. My chin is back off the floor and life is returning to normal. What to do with all the time I cleared to do this? Maybe go to the beach. Oh wait, hurricane Ike will be here tomorrow. Well, I'll savor the moment and hope my house doesn't blow away and take my network with it. Highly recommended.

Follow this link:

http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DWA-160-Extreme-N-Dual-Band-802-11n/dp/B00127OVHI

2nd review down, identical post from someone from 2008

sellbuyer92 wrote:So word on the street is....*hushed tones* the band of clouds is back...

Oh yeah? You got a link to these alleged streets?

MTLuka83 wrote:This is actually a really good deal for a plug-n-play wireless adapter. Most go for at least $30. D-Link is an excellent brand, too. Anyone with a Bluray player without Wifi, get one of these.

Not...so...fast...

My Sony unit will only accept a Sony-made unit. Darn them.

maggiecain wrote:Okay, so let's say I have an Airport Extreme, a wireless enabled laptop, one TV with a wireless enabled Blu-Ray, and another wireless-enabled TV. No desktop, and when we replace the desktop, it will be right next to the airport, so I don't need to distance those from each other. Will this do anything for me?

I am so not well-versed in wireless do-hickey technology....

If the computer is next to the airport, I'd just runa short 3-6 foot ethernet cable to the router. No need to do wireless for 10 feet. But it might be worth it to have one of these laying around if you decide to move the router or the computer in the future.

Also, sometimes the wireless receiver can die in laptops later in their life and these can make up the difference in buying a whole new laptop.

jandrese wrote:Wireless over USB adapters are plagued by fragile and buggy drivers and lack of support from the vendor. Even wired over USB doesn't get a lot of love. This will probably work mostly, but you'll have to fiddle with it regularly to keep it working. I generally don't think these are worth the hassle.

Add on top of that the fact that this is a D-Link and I just cannot recommend.

I completely disagree with you. That may have been the case 5+ years ago in both the technology and brand rep, both have improved SIGNIFICANTLY to the point where D-link is a VERY good brand now. I work in the wireless testing dept. at the biggest tech company in the world and the engineers have no problem with D-link, at all. Sorry, but don't let this guy scare you off folks.

STOP

If you guys and gals are buying this for your TV or blu ray player, don't.

IT WILL NOT WORK.

Most USB adapters require a driver install for it to work. since you cannot download and install drivers like you can on a computer, it will not work.

You will need a vendor specific wifi adapter for your TV or player.

MTLuka83 wrote:If the computer is next to the airport, I'd just runa short 3-6 foot ethernet cable to the router. No need to do wireless for 10 feet. But it might be worth it to have one of these laying around if you decide to move the router or the computer in the future.

Also, sometimes the wireless receiver can die in laptops later in their life and these can make up the difference in buying a whole new laptop.

Thanks!

The1LoneWolf wrote:Did you shoot your daughter's laptop?

Negative, Ghost Rider.

robino wrote:just got here. on a scale of one to eleven, how would you people rate this woot-off? your answer will determine whether or not it's worth sticking around. thanks!

(someone had to do it)

This appears to use the Atheros ar9170 chipset.

Atheros chipsets are generally very full-featured, and have solid driver support for Linux and the like.

For those among us with black hats and black hearts, Atheros chipsets generally support injection. So if you forget your own WiFi network password and were silly enough to leave it WPA, you can crack it. To recover your own password. Not your neighbors. That would be wrong.

lrmahmood wrote:Hmm, the amazon reviews for this are super sketchy. Not sure why that should be the case though.

http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DWA-160-Extreme-N-Dual-Band-802-11n/dp/B00127OVHI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1332272395&sr=8-2

Most reviews say to beware of the versions. You pretty much need HW Version B to get it to work on Win 7 or update the firmware.

http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DWA-160-Extreme-N-Dual-Band-802-11n/product-reviews/B00127OVHI/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

Y'all are welcome. I picked up a couple. Saves some speed on my crowded 2.5 band.

coolman01231 wrote:Like most DIYers and pseudo-geeks, I've learned that all "quick upgrades" are really Trojan horses; nervous breakdowns in a box. Days later and exhausted on the floor from error messages, tech guys with foreign accents saying that rebooting will fix everything after a 2 hour wait on a telephone cue before your call gets cut off mysteriously. So I usually take a week off, put on a sweat band and have sedatives in reach. I did due diligence and found this product to have relatively good reviews so picked it up. (Sorry Amazon, this one time Best Buy actually had a better price!) My home network connects a Tivo, SlingBox, Vista Laptop, voip telephone, all-in-one printer via an Apple Airport Extreme hub. This D-Link was to try to cut the wires on my XP desktop to distance the spaghetti of wires from external hard drives etc. and a tethered printer. OK, those details aside, I installed the drivers via the supplied CD, chose the "manual" installation choice, typed in the name of my network and security password....."great Scott, Marty"....it was on line in an instant! OK, this should be the norm in installing things. But we all know when it does happen, shock and awe wash over us like the "08" Beijing Olympics opening ceremony. My chin is back off the floor and life is returning to normal. What to do with all the time I cleared to do this? Maybe go to the beach. Oh wait, hurricane Ike will be here tomorrow. Well, I'll savor the moment and hope my house doesn't blow away and take my network with it. Highly recommended.

Follow this link:

http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DWA-160-Extreme-N-Dual-Band-802-11n/dp/B00127OVHI

2nd review down, identical post from someone from 2008

YAWNNNNNNNNNNNN

RABBIDpanda wrote:This appears to use the Atheros ar9170 chipset.

I prefer the Doritos chipset.

spin711 wrote:Follow this link:

http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DWA-160-Extreme-N-Dual-Band-802-11n/dp/B00127OVHI

2nd review down, identical post from someone from 2008

Yea? I have a 123 other things I've reviewed too. Im a money.

I hope I bought the right thing. If my Comcast Internet craps out, will this allow me to connect with my Verizon Hotspot?

spin711 wrote:Follow this link:

http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DWA-160-Extreme-N-Dual-Band-802-11n/dp/B00127OVHI

2nd review down, identical post from someone from 2008

If it's not plagarism, at least it's lazy. No quality post for that guy!

=] I helped! I figure I can save a few $$ by buying a non-wifi BR player...

Fatclown2006 wrote:STOP

If you guys and gals are buying this for your TV or blu ray player, don't.

IT WILL NOT WORK.

Most USB adapters require a driver install for it to work. since you cannot download and install drivers like you can on a computer, it will not work.

You will need a vendor specific wifi adapter for your TV or player.

Also gonna tell you it does not work. Do not listen to people saying it will work, it will not. You have to pay for their brand, or google to find a cheaper one that can be firmware flashed to fool your player/tv into thinking that you bought the branded one. All of these people that are saying it will work should be forced to pay for this for people buying on that recommendation.

Fatclown2006 wrote:STOP

If you guys and gals are buying this for your TV or blu ray player, don't.

IT WILL NOT WORK.

Most USB adapters require a driver install for it to work. since you cannot download and install drivers like you can on a computer, it will not work.

You will need a vendor specific wifi adapter for your TV or player.

Oh well, it was worth a shot. Helped move along the woot-off anyways...

Wow! I was just going to go looking for an adapter for the new planned setup in the new house I'm moving to in a couple weeks. Stopped here to see what was going on and lo and behold, one stop solution. And, there's even a decent chance I'll get it before the move. This is better than hitting the lottery, or maybe getting a Bunnies Ogling Carrots

Thanks Woot!

Thank you for posting that....I was wondering if this would work with my Dish receiver; probably not....

will this, perchance, work with an XBOX360?

sadsephiroth wrote:Also gonna tell you it does not work. Do not listen to people saying it will work, it will not. You have to pay for their brand, or google to find a cheaper one that can be firmware flashed to fool your player/tv into thinking that you bought the branded one. All of these people that are saying it will work should be forced to pay for this for people buying on that recommendation.

I second this motion .

Does anyone know if this will work with a Roku?

wscraig wrote:If it's not plagarism, at least it's lazy. No quality post for that guy!

Yeah, I retract my call-out.

wscraig wrote:If it's not plagarism, at least it's lazy. No quality post for that guy!

quality copy and paste

spin711 wrote:quality copy and paste

You wanted my insight, I gave it. Why polish the monkey, if its already gold?

Love this D-Link

Darn missed it

coolman01231 wrote:You wanted my insight, I gave it. Why polish the monkey, if its already gold?

Hey - no "polishing the monkey" talk around here!

briannanoob wrote: It's also mostly silent so it doesn't scare my boyfriend, like my modem, which terrifies him.

Sounds like someone needs a new BF....
Just sayin'

Hey I had to order one! I also ordered a refurb'd E3000 dual band router that I love a few months ago. This will let me see if the other band really is clearer but since the higher you go the less penetration you get. I just realized that people are similar in that respect. I still have one XP netbook that has a b adapter installed. I bought a nice Rosewill adapter 300Mbs that works great but gets really hot. And is only one band 2.4.

I like refurbs because the folks that don't know what they are buying or can't figure out how to turn it on or realize their router has only one band and just send back perfectly good items.

Know all those reviews saying their drives were DOA. About 3/4ths of them are folks that didn't know how to initialize a drive that is OEM so the computer can see it and format it. I have never had to return a refurb computer, router, or accessory or drive that I got a great discount on in the past . . . yet. I am so far ahead of the power curve now it really won't matter.

inkycatz wrote:

(someone had to do it)

noted that this woot-off goes to 11. I'm sticking around on your word.

Just got mine yesterday and it doesn't work. Anyone else have this issue? Straight up doesn't register on my computer. Bummer.