Netgear WG311 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter

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SKU: WG311NA

Sales Rank: 2081

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Product Description

Upgrade your desktop or tower computer to the highest level of wireless capability with the NETGEAR WG311, a PCI card that installs with the turn of a single screw! At 54 Mbps, this wireless 2.4 GHz 802.11b/g PCI card blows away existing 11 Mbps wireless networks, and will supercharge delivery of media-rich content to your desktop.Includes Resource CD, Installation Guide, Warranty Card3 year warranty

Product Specification

BatteriesIncluded:: 0
Binding:: Electronics
Brand:: Netgear
EAN:: 0606449028423
Feature:: High-speed 802.11g at 2.4 GHz
First-time-ever wireless video streaming
Dynamic rate shifting
40/64 and 128-bit Wired Equivalency Protection (WEP) encryption
Virtual Private Network (VPN) pass-through
Label:: Netgear
Manufacturer:: Netgear
Model:: WG311NA
NetworkInterfaceDescription:: PCI
NumberOfItems:: 1
ProductGroup:: CE
Publisher:: Netgear
Studio:: Netgear
Title:: Netgear WG311 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter
UPC:: 606449028423
Warranty:: 3 years warranty
MPN:: WG311NA

Customer Reviews

Poor reception

I have this on a desktop with Win XP.This adapter goes through cycles of good to poor reception repeatedly.It will occasionally drop the connection.Whereas, my 2 laptops placed at the same location receives excellent signal constantly.Go figure....

10/19/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews

Whoops - spoke too soon - not really five stars

I can't go back and change the number of stars, unfortunately.I've had a WG311 for a couple years with no problems (hence the five star review) but I got a new one for a new machine.After installing it, my machine started crashing pretty frequently, the dreaded blue screen of death, MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION.I removed it and the problem went away.Coincidentally, my old computer died, so now I'm using the old card in the new machine, and it works just fine.I don't know why a newer card would be worse...

9/25/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews

Time Consuming with Dell Demension XP Pro SP2

Comapring to my other machine which has a different card used to be at the same location, This card gave me weak signal and dropping connections as many folks have mentioned earlier. With XP Pro SP2, this card always caused "NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error" blue screen at system shutdown - Dell Demension 3100.I was with a Dell Cust Rep on the phone for 2+ hours this afternoon to go thru all kinds steps to finally identify that this card caused the issue. Here when I did a seach with keywords...

9/11/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews

stay away from netgear

bad xp SP2 compatibility. not sure if it is my AMD chip or SP2 because even the XP update from netgear woulnt help. BSOD's daily needed a restore to get them to stop. buy a linksys, havent had a single problem with them. linksys wmp54g is worth the extra money....

8/26/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews

NetGear - NOT!

I'd stay away from this one.Issues with Windows XP SP2.Netgear does not seam to be able to get all thebugs out.I have one and have to reboot every few days just so it'll re-connect to my Netgear wireless router....

7/23/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews