D-Link DWL-G630 Wireless Cardbus Adapter, 802.11g, 54Mbps | 
| Brand: D-Link
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $8.95
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Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 5806
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP
Network Interface: CardBus
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 2 x 2 x 2
MPN: DWL-G630
Model: DWL-G630
UPC: 790069264368
EAN: 0790069264368
ASIN: B0001PFO3C
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Up to 54 Mbps | | • | Compatible with 802.11g and 802.11b | | • | Increased Wireless Security with 802.1x and WPA | | • | Great for Video Streaming | | • | Ad-Hoc mode connects directly with other cards |
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Product Description
The D-Link AirPlus G DWL-G630 Cardbus Adapter is a wireless cardbus featuring the very latest in advanced wireless silicon chip technology including enhanced security to shield and protect your wireless communication from intruders. The DWL-G630 also works with 802.11b standard wireless devices and when used with other D-Link AirPlus G products delivers throughput speeds up to 54Mbps, meaning it is capable of handling heavy data payloads. Like all D-Link wireless adapters, the DWL-G630 can be used in ad-hoc mode to connect directly with other cards for peer-to-peer file sharing or in infrastructure mode to connect with a wireless access point or router for access to the Internet in your office or home network.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 43 more reviews...
Works good, but needs a lot of tweaking September 8, 2005
Gene Cloner (St Louis)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I agree with several other reviews here that the card is bad. But, if you had bought it and don't want to spend money returnig it, some tweaking would make it work good! A good product should be real plug and play but this is not!!
I bought it as a router and pc card (both D-link 802.11g) set to use at home. I have my desktop connected by cable to the router and my laptop connecting wirelessly. Installation was a snap for both the router and the card and they worked fine and I was able to browse and share files between both the computers - all at good speed.
Trouble started when I went to work with my laptop or when I used laptop on its battery. The card took a long time to recognize the network and the computer kept saying 'cound not connect to network drives'.
The other problem was that my battery drained very fast. So fast to the extent that some times just booting up and reading my emails will already have used up 75% battery!!
Minor trouble; the D-link utility does the exact samething that Windows XP wireless connection manager does. However, there is no (easy) way to disable the utility from loading. Even if you use windows XP to configure wireless connections, the D-link utility sits there and does nothing.
Solutions:
1. You can prevent the D-link utility from loading and this improves performance - makes connections quicker actually. Click Start..Run.. ; Type 'msconfig' and click OK. In the window that appears click the 'Startup' tab; You will see a long list of programs that are enabled at start up. Uncheck 'airplus.exe' and 'reg.exe' both of which run from the D-link installation directory.
2. To conserve battery, Right click the wireless connection icon on the tray; click status... click Properties... Click 'configure' right next to the D-link airplus g card's name. Go to the advanced tab and choose 'powersavemode' from the list..choose property 'normal' or 'maximum' to save your battery.
These two actions make a card actually work better than using D-link's utility (Do all tweaking at your own risk! It worked for me, but, cannot guarantee it'll work for you w/o causing any trouble). Good luck!!
 Device problems with Windows XP April 26, 2004
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Although the device appears to operate just fine as far as the network, speed, and range is concerned, the card has a serious problem running on laptops under Windows XP.I spoke today (April 26, 2004) with D-Link customer service, and they said that the card is "new" and may still have driver issues. Also, they are aware that under Windows XP, the card is unable to wake up after standby/hibernation. This is what I experienced with my Thinkpad laptop. So the card installs OK and operates correctly....but the moment the laptop goes into standby the card will turn off, and then when the rest of the laptop wakes up the card will not. I have to reboot to wake it up. The kind telephone representative I spoke with was hopeful about a driver fix soon. I am not sure if the problem is only for some brands of laptops or all of them under Windows XP. I think I will return my card for another brand with better drivers.
Poor compatibility-buy at your risk!! July 31, 2004
Dueysf (San Francisco)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I recently bought D-links DI-514 wireless router and the AirPlus G DWL-G630 wireless pc-card and am not happy with either. The router just stops broadcasting frequently and I have to restart it. The wireless card has been a royal pain. DO NOT BUY this card if you have a Compaq Presario laptop. They are not compatible. I tried everything Dlink tech support suggested including doing a complete fresh reinstall of windows XP (!) and trying a replacement card and my computer still locks up. From my reading of forums on the internet, D-links wireless cards seems to work well on some computer brands and not others. You see posts where people have the same card working great on one laptop and freezing up another one. Amusingly, when I was explaining to the level 2 tech at Dlink that my previous Orinico wireless card worked perfectly for 3 years he said that I should have hung onto that card because that is what he currently uses! Dlinks level 2 tech doesn't even use this shoddy product!! Nor did they have an explanation why their drivers STILL are not windows XP certified. Come on, XP has been out for years and Dlink just hasn't gotten around to it yet (or more likely its just not certifiable)??? If you are still keen on getting the card, save yourself the hassle and check the forums first (www.dslreports.com)to see if others with your computer brand are having problems.
Don't bother if you have XP March 30, 2005
Sisu (Los Angeles, CA)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
What a headache this thing was... I made it all the way through to the point where my system recognized that there was new hardware and I had to click to ignore the fact that D-Link isn't certified by Microsoft (**key point). Then it found the driver file on the CD, and when it tried to install it, it simply said that the hardware could not be installed.
I called the customer support line - a fairly painless process - and walked through the installation with the rep. His conclusions was that a very very small number of CDs get corrupted or are bad (yea right!!) and that I would have to go to the D-Link website to download the most recent installation drivers. He swore that the site had the best and most recent fixes and that it would definitely work.
So the next day I went to the site, after uninstalling everything, and went through the installation process again using the latest and greatest. Result: SAME THING!!! It wouldn't install. What a piece a garbage. I called back in and the guy analyzed the situation and told me to return it, that the hardware was probably faulty. Uh huh...
The thing of it was that he didn't say, oh the card you have is bad, go get another one of the same. He basically implied that I should get a different card. To me this means that I would have the same trouble with all of the DWL-G630 cards I tried - due to incompatibility with XP SP2 - and that I need to get a real product that has been certified by Microsoft. (i.e. Linksys, ahem...)
Save your money!! Stay away!! Don't waste your time!!
Even the guy at Bestbuy said that the Linksys versions were much more reliable. I did actually buy the Linksys at first, but the signal was too weak, so I wanted to try a different one to see if it would be better. What a mistake! I'm going back to the weak signal thank you...
 Clear documentation, easy to setup June 17, 2004
K. T. Chua (Los Angeles, CA United States)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'm a first-timer when it comes to setting up wireless network to access broadband internet. And with this card, I've FINALLY manage to get everything to work together. My home network now includes: Linksys router, Netgear wireless-G card on my laptop (win2000), and this D-link card on my wife's laptop (win98se). Comments on this card:
Pros:
- very simple and clear (full-colored) instructions to setup.
- works well with win98se and win2k. I set it up within about 5-10min to work with the win98se laptop, which refuses to take the Netgear card. With Netgear, I spent 5 hours and it still did not work. Cons:
- I feel the Netgear card is better in terms utility software and rescanning. If you are securing your network, the utility that comes with the card does not accept passphrase. This is a little inconvenient when you need to reset your password on your router. Netgear's utility provides a passphrase tool.
- When the wireless connection is broken (eg I switch off the router), the netgear card and utility rescans more quickly than d-link does. (netgear takes 10 sec, d-link takes about 18 sec. from the same spot.) In terms of tech support, I've tried them all.
- Linksys has best tech support.
- Netgear's support is outsourced to India - and they don't quite care what you think about them. They kept pushing the blame to my ISP and router when the card didn't work on the win98se laptop.
- D-link support is also from India, I tried it before when I bought a USB hub and didn't like it. They gave you a case number for email correspondence, but don't followup. When I was at Best Buy, the sales rep said linksys experienced much less returns than netgear and d-link, but linksys is usually more expensive. i guess you pay for reliability and better service. Hope these comments help.
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