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Easy Cost Effective and Will Save The Marriage . We have a simple wireless network at home with cable modem internet access and we use two of these NICs to for my wife's and my work laptops. I also have a wireless network in the office (using 802.11a technology), so when I get home I pop out the office NIC and pop in this NIC and it works great. With the associated router and access point (Siemens SpeedStream Wireless DSL/Cable Router (SS2624)), my wife and I can both sit in the living room and access the internet without wires, etc. It is great and now we don't have to "share" the internet connection. ;-) Actually, it is good because we both work form home a lot and this allows us to stay on top of e-mails and access resources on the net. I recommend this network for its ease of installation and operation. Truely plug and play.
Easy Cost Effective and Will Save The Marriage . We have a simple wireless network at home with cable modem internet access and we use two of these NICs to for my wife's and my work laptops. I also have a wireless network in the office (using 802.11a technology), so when I get home I pop out the office NIC and pop in this NIC and it works great. With the associated router and access point (Siemens SpeedStream Wireless DSL/Cable Router (SS2624)), my wife and I can both sit in the living room and access the internet without wires, etc. It is great and now we don't have to "share" the internet connection. ;-) Actually, it is good because we both work form home a lot and this allows us to stay on top of e-mails and access resources on the net. I recommend this network for its ease of installation and operation. Truely plug and play.
Siemens SpeedStream Wireless PCMCIA Card (SS1021) Reviews
Excellent real plug-n-play product . It just can't be any easier. A real plug-n-play product. Compared to other wireless 802.11b products, this is definietly the best. Performance is just great. I can take my laptop to the backyard (while my siemens base station is on the ground floor) and still get a very decent signal.I just love this product (specially when I compare it to the horrible cards from microsoft and linksys).
Excellent real plug-n-play product . It just can't be any easier. A real plug-n-play product. Compared to other wireless 802.11b products, this is definietly the best. Performance is just great. I can take my laptop to the backyard (while my siemens base station is on the ground floor) and still get a very decent signal.I just love this product (specially when I compare it to the horrible cards from microsoft and linksys).
Siemens SpeedStream Wireless PCMCIA Card (SS1021) Opinions
Very Good Product . Using this product, you don't need a access router. I have 2 laptops. One laptop is connected to internet directly. I installed this wireless adapters in both the computers and was able to share the internet connection through my first laptop which is connected to internet. For people with a desktop and a laptop this is a great buy. This setup don't need a wireless acess router. I got this one from circuit city .... I tried microsoft adaptors a week ago and it did not work in peer to peer conection.
Very Good Product . Using this product, you don't need a access router. I have 2 laptops. One laptop is connected to internet directly. I installed this wireless adapters in both the computers and was able to share the internet connection through my first laptop which is connected to internet. For people with a desktop and a laptop this is a great buy. This setup don't need a wireless acess router. I got this one from circuit city .... I tried microsoft adaptors a week ago and it did not work in peer to peer conection.
Cons Review
Siemens SS1021 Wireless PCM Ethernet Card . I purchased the SS1021 because it has minimal hardware and software requirements which allowed its use with my old notebook computer that has a 166 MHz processor, 80 MB RAM, a 2 GB hard drive and Win98. The only other potential choice was a Microsoft MN-520, but it required Internet Explorer 5.X or 6.X, neither of which run well on my notebook. Most other cards require Win98ME or SE or later operating systems and greater than 200 MHz processors.If your wireless network knowledge is limited, adding this card to an existing could be frustrating, since the printed insructions are minimal and no glossary of LAN or internet terms is provided. My LAN is based on a Linksys BEFW1154 wireless router and two other WinXP computers, so it took me longer than expected to figure out which IP, DNS, DHCP, gateway, WEP encryptation and SSID settings to use on the Win98 system and how to enter them in the SS1021 configuration utility program. Solving these issues using a web-based tech support system would not be fun.After I got the card talking to the router, the notebook crashed repeatedly from a corrupted operating system file, which required reinstalling the system. This was my fault, since I forgot that any PCM card installed on this notebook requires the sound card interrupt and I/O address settings to be manually changed from the default, even though Windows Device Manager shows no conflict with other hardware. A distances of 10-12 from the router, but the data transfer rates seem comparable to the WinXP boxes and it hasn't drop the connection once in 8 hours of operation. When moved to the other end of the house (~75 feet and one masonry wall away) the data transfer and conection quality are unsatisfactory. My HP WinXP notebook's integral wireless system is unfazed in the same distant location. I downgraded my original rating to 2 stars due to the poor performance at larger distances from my wireless router.Here's an update on this card. It quit working 4/27/2004, and on boot-up I get a message that states it is not working and should be reinstalled. After repeated attempts to load drivers and the configuration program, I even reloaded the operating system. The light on the card, indicating it is locked onto the wireless router, is on all the time, even during bootup. It used to blink until it locked on. The config program will not run. Whether it's a hardware or software problem, or a combination of both, the hassle of using this card in not worth it.Final downgrade to 1 star based on Siemens tech support personnel agreeing card had failed (it would not install and operate in another notebook), but refusing to honor warranty since it was bought on-line. The card got very hot when it did operate; I think the heat killed it.
siemens = speedstream = not very compatible with xp and Linu . Started using this card in windows 2000. the config utility that comes with has no option to "discover" the networks and find the available SSID's.Been using it now for a while with XP. The driver is not very good with XP. Might find the network, but very slow compared to a D-link card I'm using in the same laptop.Also, right now, the card can not get a DHCP address anymore. Even though the D-link card still works fine. This even though I have a siemens = speedstream 2623 router. So sticking with the same brand did not help here.My advice: stay away from this brand all together. Buy a more known brand (linksys, netgear or so). Not this one. Not the greatest support. No updated drivers. the router does not support UPnP.Not that satisfied with this product. Would not buy it again!!
Works but very buggy. Not worth it! . Here is my story:As soon as I started the installation, Windows 2000 warned me the driver were not certified. However I just ingored the warning and the installation completed sucessfully.It works with my SMS 2404 WBR wireless router. However the signal strength is always about 50-60%, and the link quality never surpasses 60-70%, even though my laptop is just 3 ft from the router. For reference, my other Trendnet TEW-221PC card works just fine, with quality and signal strength approach 90-100% most of the time.Most anoying of all is its problem with DHCP. 3 out of 4 times I don't get IP address (DHCP). Remove and put it back a few times help. Another trick is change any parameter and "apply" (so that the card gets restarted) also helps sometimes. My other card does get this problem but rarely.Will try to return it next week.
Not friendly for me . I've been having a difficult time setting up this SS2624 router and SS1021 wireless PC card combo to work within my network system. The signal is extremely weak, the SS1021 PC card is currently NEXT to the router and "Link Quality" is at 66%. Mean while, the "Signal Strength" is at 68%. PC card and router no more than 6 inches away without hitting 100% connection rate is pitiful. When I put the router two rooms, two walls away, the signal becomes "POOR" at 20%-30% quality rate... unacceptable.Siemens Wirless Network Card Status icon down at the task bar shows Signal Strength as "No Signal". The only problem is that there IS active connection being transferred between router and PC Card. Also, this PC card would not work at all with a friend's Microsoft Wireless Router. So far by following the intructions, I have been unable to fix the "ACT" (activity light bar) on the PC Card to stay "On". When data is being transferred, the light blinks as supposed to be. The light does not light up when data is NOT being transferred. Instruction states that when there IS connection, the ACT bar should stay "ON" and blink when bytes are being transferred (or when it is activity scanning for a "channel"). ACT light bar in the "OFF" position means that there is NO live connection, which obviously is not accurate in my scenario. I give it such low rating because even if there is something in the configuration that I am missing to complete properly, the signal strength is extremely weak compared other wireless router.
Doesn't work on IBM T22 . I've had a terrible time with this card. I bought it as a present for my son, only to have him discover that it didn't work on his IBM T22 notebook. The store (Circuit City) wouldn't take it back because it was more that 14 days after I had bought it, so we returned it to Siemens (actually, Efficient Networks) for repair. They sent a new one, which also didn't work. We verified that the card works in a different notebook (a Gateway 450) and that other wireless cards work in the T22 (a D-Link and a Netgear). The symptom with the SS1021/T22 combo is that the SSID is garbled and the card won't connect to the access point. I called Efficient today to try to return the card but all they'll do is repair and return it. I just want my money back!My advice -- don't buy this card unless you can try it out in your notebook immediately!
Constantly drops connections . I bought this card because it was the only one the local Office Depot had in stock. I went home to read negative reviews of it, but hoped that I would be an exception. I was not. It constantly drops the connection, I have the same problem that someone else mentioend where I'll be within a few feet of the router and the signal quality will show up as poor (and continue to drop). I plan to return this today. If you're thinking about it, don't buy it.
Not compatible with Windows XP . They have buggy drivers.XP gives a warning when installing the drivers about the fact that the drivers have not passed Windows Logo testing. It will save a system restore point and allow you to proceed.I installed the software. The connection was continually dropping and reconnecting even though I was 10 ft. from the router.I went to Siemens site to get updated drivers and this did not help.Save yourself the headache do not buy this card if you have XP.Read the newsgroups it is a known issue.
Feature Siemens SpeedStream Wireless PCMCIA Card (SS1021)
- Type II PCMCIA card with built-in PCB patch diversity antenna
- Typical operating range: Indoor--30 meters at 11 Mbps; 50 meters at 5.5 Mbps; 100 M at 2 Mbps; 120 meters as 1 Mbps
- Up to 11 Mbps for true, high-speed networking
- Plug-and-Play installation
- WEP encryption
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Product Details
Brand : SiemensWeight : 1 pounds
Height : 1 inches
Length : 5 inches
Width : 3 inches
Binding : Personal Computers
Manufacturer : Siemens
Model : SS1021
Publisher : Siemens
Studio : Siemens
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