NETGEAR WPN311 RangeMax Wireless PCI Adapter

Product Description

The WPN311 RangeMax Wireless PCI Adapter makes your wireless network more powerful. Avoid hitting dead spots where your fades in and out, or drops off completely. Give yourelf the freedom to work (and play) absolutely anywhere in your home -- the RangeMax gives you 10 times the wireless coverage of 802.11g. You'll have a sizzling-fast, consistent connection in every room of your house.

I can only guess that the folks with problems might not have followed the directions. You don't put the adapter in the machine until you install the software and shut down the computer.

I'm sorry, but mine has worked flawlessly. The proprietary UI for setting up your wireless connection is really user friendly, IMO. Although Netgear isn't a well-known brand to me, I'm glad I took a risk on this non-Linksys, non-Belkin adapter. I'm getting the full 54 Mbps my router can provide, and it's downstairs and across the house.


I installed this card in my new Windows Vista computer and it connected to my wireless Netgear router with no problems. In fact, I already purchased this exact wireless card before for my other computer about a year ago and it still works great! I would highly recommend this product to everyone. Paying no tax and shipping makes this product even better :-)


It is one of 4 wireless connections I use and I have had not any major problems. I purchased it to match up with my Netgear WPN824 Rangemax wireless router. It does take a little tweaking of the antenna for strongest signals. The computer is on the far side of the house from the router over 100 feet, 4 walls and 2 doors away and I still get 54% signal strength. It is connected to a Dell Inspiron running Vista.


The NETGEAR WPN311 RangeMax Wireless PCI Adapter was delivered on time in excellent condition as advertised.




I'm still not received my product so far and I've totally forgot that I made this order. Please help...


I bought this card solely because of the 108Mbps MIMO ability, to go along with my Netgear WPN824 router which lists this as the compatible card on the back of its box.

NO WHERE, not on the box, not on the spec sheet, not in the online manual, etc does Netgear ever tell you what they told me on the phone: THIS CARD WILL NOT WORK IN 108MBPS MODE WITH WINDOWS 2000. In fact, they actually list this mode as working with XP and Win2k, but not Vista.

Well, this is bad news for me since I paid about 4 times as much for this card as I could have for a 54G PCI card, because foolishly I thought Netgear products in the same line (Rangemax) would work with each other and with the operating system they are advertised to work with. Guess I'll have to write Netgear a letter next, but I won't be buying any of their products again unless I have money to waste and feel like some experimenting and disappointment.


I got the wpn311 to use in my HP a6357c vista desktop.
I already had the matching Netgear Rangemax wpn824 wireless router that was working well with my HP vista laptop.
I was a little hesitant to open the case of the new HP because I'm a newbie and I didn't want to make a mistake that would damage it.
I followed the instructions from Netgear and installed the cd software first. Then I followed HP's website instructions and disabled the bio for lan network which was not in the Netgear papers. I can't say that that wasn't a wasted step but since I have zero experience and I didn't know any different I followed the instructions to the letter.
In any event, the card was installed and IT WORKED!
It worked right away and since that's what I wanted I am 100% satisfied.
I expect it to continue to work, but if anything changes I will add an update.



I bought this wireless card when my on-board ethernet died. Although I'm very tech savvy, I found installing the software for this card difficult. It didn't work out of the box with my Windows XP machine. I found that I had to first download and update the firmware before the card started working. Finally, if you're using this with Windows Vista, you're out of luck. Netgear doesn't have drivers for Vista.


Do not buy this lousy product. I really recommend you go with something else if your thinking wireless. Take a look at Crapgear's web sight and search the support forum for this model number and you will see that there is an issue with this adapter and XP. This company really doesn't seem to care either. Last update was in 2006 sooooo they must think their drivers are working just fine and dandy!!! This sooooooo is far from the truth. I cannot count the number of times that I uninstalled this F'in card and the drivers to try to get it to work!!! Don't pay attention to J. Temple's review that he had no problems as I can tell you that he is sorry that he bought this card now!!!!!! To J. Temple, from everybody that neg'd this card, instructions WERE followed NUMORIOUS of times!!!!!! Still with the same end result, a card that works whenever it wants to and software that likes to crash when ever it wants to or to a card that doesn't want to work at all!!!! To people who don't believe me and go ahead and buy one, don't blame me, as I warned you. Trust me from my experience with this card..... I will never buy NETGEAR AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Running XP get a blue screen due to this card 3-4 times / wk. Searched for articles or updates on the Netgear site, but of course nothing is there and I'm already on the latest patch version. Other the the unreliability, reception is pretty good and speed seems good. I would rate it 4 stars if it didn't have the major issue of crashing my system almost daily.

Since the wireless on my first Rangemax router froze almost daily as well, I can only assume there are general quality issues w/ Netgear products. Work has since been nice enough to replace the router, so we'll see if the 2nd version is more stable than the first.

UPDATE: OK, so the 2nd router is working, but I ultimately removed this card from my XP machine because of all the crashes. I have since tried using it in a new Vista machine and have installed the latest Vista driver, but have gotten periodic blue screens in Vista as well triggered by this card. I'll be removing this from the new machine in the near future and it will end up in the old computer parts graveyard. Overall, not a good buy.

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About NETGEAR WPN311 RangeMax Wireless PCI Adapter detail

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11770 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Netgear
• Model: WPN311
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000
• Format: CD
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.00" h x 5.00" w x 6.00" l, .22 pounds
• Networking: PCI

Features

• PCI card provides 802.11g wireless capability with advanced performance for up to 108 Mbps
• Delivers up to ten times the speed and range of Wireless-G networks
• Supports 128-bit WEP and WPA-PSK for enhanced security
• Backwards compatible with 802.11b wireless networks
• Device measures 5.23 x 0.86 x 4.76 inches (WxHxD)

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