Cheap Wifi Card - Works Great.
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If anyone is looking for a cheap wifi card for their notebook I would recommend the NETGEAR WG111v2. I checked on h-node before I bought it and I was able to find it on ebay for $9.
I popped it into my dell Latitude D430 and it worked right away.
Signal is good and speed is just fine (its a g card).
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I just took a quick look. There are multiple revisions of that v2 card. They may not all work. That is the problem with these lists. While it may work you don't know what chipset is actually in the card and it isn't clear.
El 25/01/12 23:22, name at domain escribió:
> If anyone is looking for a cheap wifi card for their notebook I would
> recommend the NETGEAR WG111v2. I checked on h-node before I bought it
> and I was able to find it on ebay for $9.
>
> I popped it into my dell Latitude D430 and it worked right away.
>
> Signal is good and speed is just fine (its a g card).
Would you please report it on h-node.com to have a reference? I cannot
find it there. Will you please refer to the ebay page where you bought
it? Thx.
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Hey this is the link to the h-node H-Node Netgear
And this is the link to where I bought it from on ebay. I think the guy had about 10 of them so they should still be around?
Awesome. Thanks for the link. I installed Trisquel on my coworkers computer but she had to plug it in because her wireless wasn't working. We were maybe waiting for a card to go on sale on newegg. I'll tell her to get one of these. Thanks for the tip.
I already have one of the version 2's as well so unless something really is different like Chris says it should work.
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As I said I don't know for sure. I do know that there are at least two revisions of the v2 card. They could both have the same chipset or there many be multiple chipsets even for each revision. What it comes down to is the version number itself isn't a reliable way to determine the chipset. If you have a small batch of cards from the same supplier chances are the chipsets are all the same. However they can change at any moment so a card you got from a supplier last week might not be the same card even though the models are the same. If you got 1000 cards it may be half of them have a different chipset. Getting things in small batches works best or having a contractual agreement of some kind in the event the chipsets change. Or if you can get them to test every so many cards.. that works too.
At the same time all the above is going on you can have a single card being sold under multiple brands. An Zioc USB wifi card might be made by Ion for instance and Ion may have an identical card being sold under its own name too. Each is packaged differently with a different model number where one exists. The Zioc USB wifi card might have different manufacturers too though for the card you think is the same. It all gets very confusing very fast.
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