Product Description
Buffalo AirStation G54 Wireless PC Card Network Adapter - This network adapter supports 802.11g and 802.11b wireless networks.Allowing a notebook computer to wirelessly access the Internet, e-mail, transfer files and more! It also features Buffalo's latest wireless technologies: AOSS and 125 High Speed Mode. AOSS stands for AirStation OneTouch Secure System. It literally secures your system with the touch of a button (optional AOSS router required). 125 High Speed Mode boosts transfer rates to levels that are equivalent to 802.11g networks running at 125Mbps!!
Amazon.com Product Description
The WLI-CB-G54S AirStation 125 High Speed Mode Wireless Notebook Adapter offers a fast and flexible client solution for your notebook PC. It also features Buffalo's exclusive AirStation One-Touch Secure System (AOSS) techonology, which enables you to easily setup secure wireless connections to an AOSS-enabled Router. The 32-Bit cardbus technology and 54 Mbps wireless data rates ensure maximum performance. It fits any Notebook PC with an available Type II or Type III PC card slot.
When operating in High Speed Mode, this AirStation achieves an actual throughput of up to 34.1 Mbps, which is the equivalent throughput of a system following 802.11g protocol and operating at a signaling rate of 125Mbps.
What Is AOSS? Setting up a secure wireless network can be too complicated, involving many tedious steps and requiring a certain level of expertise to complete. BuffaloÕs AirStation OneTouch Secure System (AOSS) allows you to create a hi-speed secure wireless connection with a push of a button and a click of the mouse. AOSS automatically detects and configures other AOSS enabled wireless devices and clients and seamlessly creates secure connections. As you add additional devices, security is negotiated at the highest level possible for all devices on the network. Say, for example, that you have one AOSS client that supports both WEP and WPA level encryption, while another client that supports only WEP. The AirStation automatically adjusts the security level to one that both clients will support.
What's in the Box
This package contains the AirStation 125 High Speed Mode Wireless Notebook Adapter, CD-ROM with drivers and manual, and printed Quick Setup Guide. It's backed by 24/7 toll-free tech support and a 2-year warranty.
Tech Talk
- AES: The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is the U.S. government's next-generation cryptography algorithm, phasing out the older DES format.
- TKIP: The next generation of WEP, the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP, pronounced tee-kip) provides per-packet key mixing, a message integrity check and a re-keying mechanism to secure 802.11 wireless LANs.
- WEP: A data encryption method used to protect transmission between 802.11 clients and access points, the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) standard is now considered insufficient, with WPA encryption a more secure choice.
- WPA: Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) improves the security of 802.11 networks, using 802.1x and EAP to restrict network access and its own encryption (TKIP) to secure data during transmission.
Customer Reviews:
easy to setup, but range lacking.......2007-06-08
works great at school, but at home barely keeps a connection in my room which is upstairs on the other side of the house from the router. Now, my Apple macbook gets a very low signal as well in my room, but, it is fairly reliable and keeps the connection most of the time. I should mention that I am using the Buffalo router WHR-G54S, which goes along with this adapter card. The range is lacking though in comparison to the Apple Airport.
Dissapointment.......2006-03-01
Not what I hoped for. I already have built in wireless and I was using this as a connector for a canteena. When I made an atempt to use the adapter without the canteena it gave very poor performance.
If you have wireless and want to make it stronger, this is not the product for you. If you need this for use with another wireless booster. I would go for it but only after you check out other deals. I don't think the canteena websites recomend this product for it's performance.
Range booster my !@$#!.......2005-12-18
I bought this to extend the range of my laptop's built-in wifi adapter. I was very upset after the installation, but lemme tell you all step by step.
Installation is very easy under windows XP: pop it in and when prompted insert the cd with drivers. CAUTION: if your laptop has a built-in wifi adapter you will have to disable it first - trust me, it will save you plenty of stress. Two adapters cannot work together for some reason. Disabling one is very easy, and re-enabling it is just the reverse process (control panel - system - hardware - device manager - right click device and choose disable / or enable].
OK, now comes the dissapointing part : the only thing this card will boost is your stress level! Range is MUCH WORSE than that of my built in wifi adapter, and I mean MUCH WORSE. It hardly registers my network at all, and cannot detect any of the neighborhood networks. However, that's where the external antenna jack comes in handy. I purchased a 12dbi cantenna (the Pringles-type can with a special coax cable) - it was commercially produced and set me back by $40. After pointing it in the right direction (cantenna is directional) I can now reach very good signal on this card and am for the most part satisfied. I'm usually connected at 48-54 and at a signal strength at "good". As an example:
My built-in wifi adapter generally connects at 36-48 MBps and "good" signal, detecting additional 7 - 9 networks in the vicinity..
The Buffalo card (without cantenna) connected at 5.5 MBps at the most and signal strength "very low", detecting only my own network and not working in the backyard at all. After installing the cantenna, speed is 48 - 54, signal good or very good, working outside without signal loss. However, detecting neighborhood networks requires reposition of the cantenna to find them (I may look for an omni-direction antenna to simplify the process).
To summarize: Good product, but only when paired with an antenna. Forget about it without one. When used with a cantenna, can be used for wardriving.
Amazon.com Product Description
Samsung's M510 improves upon its predecessor, the M500, with a more organically rounded design as well as Bluetooth stereo headphone streaming--perfect for enjoying untethered tunes purchased through Sprint's Music Store. It operates on Sprint's North American CDMA voice network, as well as on Sprint's Mobile Broadband Network (EV-DO), which enables you to quickly access audio, video and data applications. Other phone features include a 1.3 megapixel camera and camcorder, GPS turn-by-turn directions, MicroSD memory card expansion, and voice-activated dialing.
The M510 packs a lot of multimedia power into a small package, including tunes from the Sprint Music Store and streaming video via Sprint TV (EV-DO service required). |
Supporting the EV-DO high-speed data standard, the M510 is fully compatible with Sprint's Power Vision service. With Power Vision, you can download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Enjoy full-color video clips or live TV of the latest news, sports, and entertainment from brands you know, like CNN, Fox, The Weather Channel, NFL Mobile, and more. Power Vision also serves as a portal for enhanced games. Where coverage is available, EV-DO connectivity provides average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps, with peak rates up to 2 Mbps.
Sprint's music service is another EV-DO-powered service that makes the M510 all the more desirable. With the Sprint Music Store, your phone is a music player, letting you buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song--one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that's right for you. You can even pause to take a call without missing a beat.
It also includes a 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth connectivity, and an external display that shows caller ID and the time. |
This phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity, and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, audio/video remote control, and printing. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking (DUN)--surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server--using Sprint's Mobile Broadband Network. And when connected to a Bluetooth headset, caller information for incoming calls will be spoken through the Bluetooth device. Decide to answer the call without ever looking at your phone.
The 1.3-megapixel camera shoots still photos in four resolutions (from 176 x 220 to 1280 x 960) as well as video clips with sound. It offers a 4x digital zoom, white balance and brightness settings, and the ability to frame photos right in the phone. It also provides support for PictBridge technology so you can print your photos without the need of a PC. The built-in digital audio player is compatible with MP3 and AAC/AAC+ formats, and includes the ability to create playlists on the phone.
The M510 sports a 176 x 220-pixel color display with over 262K colors, and it also includes an external supplementary LCD (96 x 96 pixels) that can display pictures, time, call information, battery and signal strength, and more. The phone comes with 16 MB of memory, which is expandable via MicroSD memory cards The internal phonebook will hold up to 500 entries with each contact entry providing up to 5 phone numbers in addition to an email address, a URL, memo, nickname, caller ID photo, and selected ringtone. You can store up to 99 speed dialing numbers in contacts database as well. Up and down buttons for volume control are placed on the left side, and camera controls are included on the right side of the phone, as is the memory card slot, while most of the phone's features and on-screen menus are controlled by a five-way center button on the handset's control pad.
The phone ships with built-in polyphonic ringtones, but for those times when you want to be discreet, there's a vibrating alert. A built-in speakerphone makes it easy to talk without having the phone to your ear, and advanced voice activated dialing makes calling your friends, family, and associates easy. Simply say the name or number of the person you want to call and the number is dialed automatically without using the keypad.
A messaging multitasker, the M510 supports Sprint PCS picture and video mail services, enabling you to shoot high quality pictures and video clips with sound and instantly send them to email addresses and or other Sprint PCS phones that are compatible with picture and video mail services. Or upload them to the Sprint PCS pictures Web site to create albums. You can also use the M510 to send and receive email, exchange text messages, or join a chat room. Plus, the M500 features an embedded SMS voice messaging client, a feature that allows you to easily send voice messages to other wireless users or any working email address. T9, a predictive text entry system, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit--a plus for mobile email and text messaging users.
The M510 also sports an airplane mode feature, which allows the user to safely use the non-wireless functions of a phone (such as music, games, or organizer functions) on an airplane during flight. This phone is also GPS enabled, allowing you to receive audible and visual turn-by-turn driving directions, map your location, or conduct local searches direct from your handset. With a USB connection, the M510 can also be used as a mass storage device.
Vital Statistics
The Samsung M510 weighs 2.93 ounces and measures 3.74 x 2 x 0.64 inches. Its 800 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3.5 hours of talk time. It runs on the CDMA 850/CDMA 1900 frequencies for voice and CDMA2000 EV-DO for data. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent voice quality with all the extras.......2007-12-20
Bought this for my wife who will mostly just use the voice features, but I occasionally use it for everything else, so this is a perfect hybrid phone.
Fits both large and small hands perfectly, great sound quality to calls, highly configurable and fun to use. Battery life is fair, good if you enable power saving option, and excellent if you disable auto-updating of web content and bluetooth.
Has Some Flaws, but a Decent Phone Overall........2007-12-06
I received this phone as a free replacement for my previous phone which was no longer being supported by Spring, though it was still under two years old.
I think it is pretty good -not great, but overall a decent purchase. There are a couple of significant flaws that detract from this phone.
Here are the things I like:
Add 1 star. It is sleek, and smooth, and pleasing to the eye.
Add 1 star. The talk time seems fine. I've had no problems there. It works great as a phone. I've had NO problems with hearing people or being heard.
Add 0.5 stars. The speakerphone option is actually on the phone itself (available from a one button touch). This is nice and solves a problem with my last phone. I needed to push 3 buttons to use speakerphone on that phone.
Add 1 star. The camera and camcorder work fine, and I've had no issues there.
Add 1 star. The mini SD Storage card is wonderful. I didn't have this on my last phone. I bought a 2 Gig card for a cheap price and popped it right in. (Typically the mini SD cards also come with an adaptor so that you can plug it right into any standard SD slot -like on your computer- so that you can move information easily).
Add 0.5 star. The charging port is a lot more accessible than on my last phone. Not perfect, but it is an improvement. I don't have to actually tear off the port plastic guard in order to plug my phone in and lay it down to charge.
Here are the things I dislike.
Minus 1 star: The usage ergonomics are pretty bad:
1) The button placement for the scroll up and down keys are way too low on the phone. Instead of being able to use your left hand to automatically scroll up and down pages, you are forced to use your other hand to touch the buttons, or, more realistically, you are forced to twist your hand at an awkward ankle to allow you to touch the scroll keys. You can do it, but you have a much more delicate and tenuous hold on the phone when doing so, which makes it much more likely to slip out of your hand. This was a silly design flaw and has been done a lot better on other phones.
2) The keypad is completely flat with almost no texture (which is annoying, but which I can deal with) but the scroll wheel and the main buttons are also completely flat -I mean COMPLETELY flat and flush with each other- (which makes it very difficult to control menus unless you are perfectly still and focused) -especially when trying to move the cursor around when texting.
Minus 1 star:
1) The texting is pretty bad. When I text a message and then hit next (right before hitting the final send) the phone randomly decides to add another word to my text message SOME OF THE TIME, and if I don't go back and remove the extra word, it will send the word with the message. So instead of a message saying "See you at five." It might say "See you at five. Fish" or "See you at five. Don't" And if you are like me, you are trying to text quickly, and don't sit there and wait and analyze the message -you hit the double "send" to get the message on its way. If the extra word appears and is sent then you are stuck sending a follow up message explaining it. Nuts!
2) Furthermore, I am often suggested fake words as suggested words, and this drives me up the wall. Instead of finishing the spelling of a common word, my dictionary will suggest words with accents, latin or foreign sounding words, or just weird spellings. It doesn't happen all the time, but enough that it is annoying -especially when I am trying to spell a common word. "Lazy", for example, might come up as "Lawz". I might think I misspelled the word, and erase it and try again with the same result. It will only be when I choose the NEXT suggested word option will I realize that I spelled it correctly the whole time and it was the phone that was messed up.
3) I am not able to add words to my phone's dictionary. I thought you could do that, but after poring through the entire instruction guide and playing with every option on my phone I have been unsuccessful. So simple, common slang words have to be alphanumerically typed in over and over. This is ridiculous. You could have easily fixed this in the software.
Other Minor Items:
Negative: There is no flash. My phone two years older had a flash. Not a big deal, I just noticed it.
Negative: I HATE how I am stuck with the lame screensaver. Yes you can change them, but NO you cannot change them without screwing up all your menus. My old phone had 3 themes that looked fine, and I am stuck with the one lame digital clock theme on the outside of my phone that I don't like. I have read all the instructions and pored through all the menus and have given up on customizing the layout how I wanted.
Negative: One thing I miss from my last phone was one button email access. I had set it up where I pushed my select wheel to the right as soon as it opened up my phone and it accessed my hotmail. The software on this phone (2 years newer) is not as customizable and it doesn't allow for 1 button access. You have to go into a menu to do this. It does, however, have a two button push sequence to access your text messages. Not perfect, but fine.
Overall, this phone works great for speaking, and for taking pictures and most people will probably be happy with that. I believe it is a poor choice for texting, and is annoying when trying to scroll up and down web pages. If Samsung or Sprint or whoever were to redo the texting software and fix these issues I would love this phone.
Above Average Phone.......2007-11-02
this is only the fourth celphone I've owned, so my feedback is relative to my limited exposure. what sold me on this phone was the light weight pebble like good for the front pocket style, and the excellent voice sound quality when listening and speaking during a conversation. when I take it out, people find it to be an attractive accessory. the black/blue color helps keep it masculine enough. I also stuck some egrips on it, because the phones surface is slippery smooth. the top volume on this phone on both the earpiece and speakerphone is lower than I would have liked, so if you frequently make calls in especially noisy speaking areas, or an old moving car or bus, then this would not be a good choice. the camera works well in low light environments, but the low resolution on such a new model was a disappointment. the bluetooth works great with my plantronics earpiece, and phone reception seems fine here in NYC. battery talk time is fine, but the standby time is lousy. on my old phone I could go almost a week on standby, but with this phone dies unused by the third day even with the data services turned off. even worse if when you upgrade from a 700mw to a 1300mw extended battery, you need a special battery cover that makes your phone look like it's pregnant, so you are better off with a spare battery than a larger one. the keypad takes getting used to and should be avoided by Men with large stubby fingers as you will miss dial often, but it's comfortable for text messengers. the display is small but bright, with an extra large font (4 digits by 3 rows) if you have visual problems. I can confirm this phone will handle a good quality 2mb memory card, but access time to your files will slow down as the card fills up beyond the first 1mb. I have not used the data or music features yet, so I can't comment on those, but I plan on loading up my memory card with music soon, and will edit my comments then. Dealing with Sprint single point of contact customer service is a free call and takes a lot of patience, but they are much better than Verizon's fragmented customer service, and in the end Sprint does what is needed to make you happy. I switched from Verizon to Sprint to enjoy Sprint's earlier 7pm anytime minutes. According to JDPowers, T-Mobile is the best for NYC, so I'll probably try them next once my Sprint contract runs out in 2009. Don't believe Verizon's superior network propaganda TV commercials.
Fragile - poor construction.......2007-10-17
The hinge is fragile and within one week of use, the flip top no longer rests properly on the phone, but is now skewed with lots of back and forth play. Also, the charger connection along the side of the phone only seats properly after much fiddling - touching the cord is all that is needed to disconnect whatever pins are used for charging. It is quite frustrating to come back to the phone only to see that it hasn't been charging. Fiddle some more and hold my breath as I back my hands away, hoping that it stays in charging mode. I hate it.
horrible design in an effort to be cool.......2007-10-11
The camera turns on almost every time you open the phone due to poor button placement. battery talk time with a bluetooth is about 30 minutes.
the keys are flat and tightly grouped making dialing correctly challenging. tinny speakerphone.
cool looks. bad phone.
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