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(More customer reviews)I bought this Sabrent 54Mbps wireless-g PCI card from BuyPCdirect through Amazon.com. I chose it because it was inexpensive and seemed to have everything that I was looking for in a wireless card. When I received the card, I installed it in the PC and installed the software provided on the small CD which came in the box with the card onto my computer. My PC was running the Windows XP SP2 operating system. However, the card installed ok, but then would lose the wireless signal every few minutes. The disconnecting and reconnecting to the network was slowly driving me crazy! I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the software provided, but the same thing happened. I was going to return the card and purchase a Linksys card instead, since my wireless access point was a Linksys brand as well. I had even packaged the card and contacted the seller about a refund, when I decided to search for more drivers online. I came across a driver for the Ralink WMP-RT2561ST chipset (which is the actual chipset on the Sabrent PCI card) at this website [...]. I installed the card again and installed this new software onto my PC and the card worked like lightning. No more irritating dropouts, and it was getting a great signal from the wireless access point. I then used Windows Update to get the latest November 2008 driver and the card now works like a charm. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a cheap, reliable PCI wireless card, but don't use the CD provided with the card.
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