Title: Excellent performance - but setup was strange.
Product review: I'm very happy with the Linksys WMP11 PCI Wireless NIC. It has an actual real antenna that sticks out of the back of the PC and which can be adjusted to get the optimum signal strength. The only problem I had was with the Windows XP wireless networking setup utility doing battle with the utility provided with the one that shipped with the card. I suppose I could have let the Windows-provided utility handle the card but, in the end, I unchecked the box that allowed it to manage the card. This let me use the Linksys utility to handle the setup and things were smooth from then on. Signal strength is excellent - much better than from the SMC PCI card I'd been using earlier. Whether this was a function of having the antenna, rather than SMC's back plastic PC-card type protrusion, I don't know.I would like to see better instructions from Linksys on how to set these cards up in Windows XP, but I have absolutlty no complaints about the card itself.
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