SignalMax Wireless PC Card LAN Adapter

Product Description
The WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card is designed to deliver unmatched performance for consumers seeking hi-speed data rates over maximum distances, in real world conditions. The WLAN1500 is ideal for connecting wirelessly at home, at work, or at your favorite hotspot. The WLAN1500 is great for notebooks without Wi-Fi, and is a significant upgrade that provides a 2x to 4x increase of useable range for notebooks with built-in wireless. The WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card is guaranteed to improve any existing network, and is guaranteed to cover ANY home or small office when used with the WR1500 Wireless Router.

Product Description:
The ParkerVision SIGNALMAX Wireless WLAN1500 LAN card is a simple, affordable way to improve the performance of any network. Powered by D2D technology, it will handle your network signal in a totally different way and provide guaranteed coverage to every room in most houses. An amazing one mile open field line of site performance (when used with ParkerVision's wireless router). The WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card connects a notebook computer to any 802.11b, 802.11g, or 802.11b/g compliant wireless network, and is designed to maximize the users experience when connecting wirelessly at home, work, or favorite hotspot.

Average customer rating:

not 802.11 b/g
Flawless
good, but not enough
Hardware good, software not ready for prime time
Great Signal

SignalMax Wireless PC Card LAN Adapter

Manufacturer: Parker Vision
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

SignalMax Wireless 4 Port DSL/Cable Router

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Netgear MR814 802.11b Wireless 4-Port Cable/DSL Router
Axis 2130R Color Pan/Tilt/Zoom Network Camera (Ceiling-mounted)
TRENDnet TVIP-200 Internet Camera Server
TRENDnet TVIP-200W Wireless Internet Camera Server
Axis 2120 Color Network Camera

Product Features:

One-Mile of open field distance when used with a SignalMax Wireless 4-Port DSL/Cable Router!
Will improve any existing 802.11b, 802.11g, or 802.11 b/g compliant wireless network
Toll Free U.S. based technical support
128 WEP encryption security
Includes one PC Card LAN adapter, CD-ROM, Quick Start Guide

ASIN: B0002476VK

Product Description

ParkerVision's breakthrough D2D technology is now being offered in a family of wireless networking products engineered to deliver unmatched performance for consumers seeking hi-speed data rates over maximum distances, in real world conditions.The WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card connects a notebook computer to any 802.11b, 802.11g, or 802.11b/g compliant wireless network, and is designed to maximize the users experience when connecting wirelessly at home, work, or favorite hotspot.

Customer Reviews:

not 802.11 b/g.......2007-01-19

was let to think that this was 802.11b/g, but it is only 802.11b, which limits speed to 11 Mbs, not exactly the speed I was looking for. Also, the software isn't seamless, you have to run the software, and pick the connection you want each and every time, adds to startup time. I could have done better....

Flawless.......2006-01-23

The signalmax works as is supposed to be. I have 67% of signal where the my laptop built in wifi doesn't have any and it's quite cheap.

good, but not enough.......2005-09-10

First of all,

the cd with the drivers didn't work.
When i downloaded the drivers from there website, it gave me an amateur impression.
The product though does what they say, if you can get connect to the network first. You can get connected if you are in normal paramaters ( first 100 meters). if you move then, no problem, you can internet, but you can't connect if you get disconnected.

Maybe the product does more with there router, but I doubt it.
I don't want to return the item because they do what they say, you get a longer range, and that's all about that, but if you can choose for a repeater of the signal or this product, then i suggest an repeater.

If the price was a bit lower, then i really suggest this product, but it isn't worth the amount of money

Just my two cents.

Hardware good, software not ready for prime time.......2005-05-05

After about 5 hours of work with the installation software, I find these problems:
1) A user must have Windows ADMIN RIGHTS to use the network connection. This is a problem in a house with kids, or similar situations. I've confirmed this limitation with their tech support, and will be returning the product because of this.
2) The software doesn't load and recognize the connection automatically. You have to click on the icon to get it going, rather than making startup seamless.
Seems to be great hardware, but the firm is small compared to vendors like Cisco, so it seems software development may not be up to par.

Great Signal.......2005-01-15

I've struggled with picking up my Linksys wireless router signal when 3-4 rooms away. I've tried a Linksys booster as well as high gain antena but got only a marginal increase in reception. That all changed when I installed this card. I now get a "verry good" or "excellent" signal from anywhere in my home. I can even get a good signal from my back yard, 1/2 an acre away from my house! The trick is to configure the card precisely per the directions and not to allow windows to install it automatically.

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