watch out for the "+" (D-Link Airplus Xtreme G+ DWL-G520+)

Member Name: D-Kill

Product:	D-Link Airplus Xtreme G+ DWL-G520+
Date:	27/02/04 (899 review reads)
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Advantages: good connectivity

Disadvantages: slow, no linux support

After some adds of the 108Mbps capabilities of the DWL-G650 and DWL-520 cards I decided to buy one.

Unlucky me! I received the DWL-G650+ and DWL-520+. Apparently, these are the versions D-Link reserves for out-side the US. Trying to upgrade to 108Mbps as promised in the adds was unsuccessful. I didn't even find any info on the G650+ cards on the .COM website. Mails to D-Link remained unanswered. After some research in the newsgroups, I found out the following :

The DWL-G650+ and DWL-520+ are using a different chipset than the G650 (the "+" is very important). You will not find this info on the D-Link website because the "+" has two major implications :

1:because the G650+ uses a cheaper chipset (Motorola) it has currently no 108Mbps support as its bigger brother does (G650, no "+").
2:because of this chipset it has a very poor support on linux. So if one intends to use this card with linux - guess again and try some other card.

When going to the European websites one finds more info on "+" and not the performant ones.

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