Proxim ORiNOCO Silver - Network adapter - PC Card - 802.11b Review

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(More customer reviews)I purchased two Orinoco Silver PC cards, one for my old G3 Powerbook (Wallstreet) and one for my daughter's Dell Latitude laptop. They both work great and get very good signals and data transfer speeds from anywhere in the house.
Installing on the Dell Latitude (w/Win ME) was easy. Install the drivers from the included CD and plug in the card and I was on my wireless home network using 64 bit WEP for security.
Installing on the Macintosh Powerbook was more problematic. The CD that comes with this card has a folder containing Mac drivers but they didn't work for me. However, I some net searching told me that this is the same card sold as Apple's Airport card and that I could use Apple's Airport drivers. So I downloaded and installed Airport 2.0.2 (which works with MacOS 9.0.4 and up). Because my Powerbook is old (1998), I can't upgrade past MacOS 9.1 and can't use the latest Airport drivers (2.0.4) but the 2.0.2 work fine and support 64 bit WEP which I use on my home network.
My home network is based on the Netgear FM411P router/firewall/access point/print server which works great with these cards.

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The same ORiNOCO PC card can be used worldwide for the Enterprise, ISP, Public Access or Home/SOHO markets using any of the ORiNOCO access point infrastructure products. The card provides high-speed wireless networking at 11Mbps and secure Internet access for laptop and desktop computers, as well as a wide range of mobile client computing devices.ORiNOCO PC Card delivers the same high-performance connectivity as wired systems, with the added freedom to move around your building or campus. The ORiNOCO PC Card is designed with a choice of security levels to protect your data. The standard level, Silver PC Card, has wired equivalent privacy (WEP), using a 64-bit key. The ORiNOCO PC Card is interoperable with other manufacturers high-speed IEEE 802.11b compliant systems and is fully compliant with the WECA (Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance) Wi-Fi 'wireless fidelity' standard.

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