DLink DWL-650+ Review

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yvesvelazco01's Review of DLink DWL-650+ Wireless Modems and Routers Reviews

3rd Mar 2004

Overall Rating

2 stars
  • Value for money
    2 stars
  • Quality
    1 stars

Using a HP Pavilion ze460us laptop in conjunction with the DWL-650+ was a hassle. Issue is when I switch to my battery and start surfing the web, my system completely locks up.

Updated the bios from HP, reinstall the Power Management Feature but did not seem to correct the problem. Downloaded latest driver from DLINK support.

Solution: DLINK DWL-650+ have 3 levels of power mode settings: Continous Access Mode, Fast Access Mode, and Maximum Power Save. Switching from the modes, here are the results:::
Continous Access Mode: PC Locks Up after 2 minutes of surfing the web.
Fast Access Mode: PC Locks up after 10 minutes of continuous web surfing - slow bandwidth.
Maximum Power Save: PC does not lock up, but signal is extremely weak, I might as well be on dial up.

Both DLINK and HP seems to point their fingers on the Power Management Feature. I'm currenlty trying a different 802.11b card by a non-branded company to see if DLINK causes the majority of the problem, which I believe could be.

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  • CGRider on 27th Nov 2004

    Hi,

    I did another test. I installed SuSE 9.2 and run the card, and to my suprise the PC didn't hang (My computer even gave a bluescreen in W2000). Conclusion: The drivers for W2000 are not well written. In the bluescreening it complains about a shared IRQ violation. But as normal the vendors/MS don't bother because in most cases the driver will function for the end-user.

    CG