Customer Reviews
Stay away.... 
2007-10-09
Stay FAR away from this product. My fiance was getting really low connection speeds because the router was on the other side of her house. After much talking I learned that she had no internal wireless card but was using a usb one so I told her to get this after looking it up. She got it. Ran the install shield wizard like the installation guide said, then opened up her machine and put the card in. Turned on computer and it wasn't detected. Turns out she hadn't snapped it in place right. She turns off her machine and snaps it in and then turns the computer back on and the windows found new hardware wizard comes up and asks for the drivers.... She searched and searched and the drivers are nowhere to be found. She turns off the machine. Pulls the card out. Turns it on, runs the installation wizard again, then puts the card back in, then restarts. Now windows has detected the card but the Netgear config utility is nowhere to be found.... She clicks on the smartsetup wizard and it's jus a 0 byte non-existent shortcut on her desktop. She tries to connect to the internet and finds out that she's getting LOWER signal strength than she was getting with her usb card..... We did everything we could. Tried absolutely every possible solution provided by the netgear support page AND by other users online. Absolutely none of them work.
After an utterly frustrating 4 hours of tinkering with it she takes this piece of garbage back to bestbuy and gets a linksys router. She snaps the linksys router in place and turns on her machine. Windows detects it and everything installs properly. Her signal strength jumps from "Very Low" to "Good" and now she doesn't get disconnected anymore.
Stay away from this utter piece of garbage.
Easy as can be 
2007-07-05
We've had problems with other similar products, but this card was working properly in minutes.
pretty good 
2007-04-05
this does not fit flush in the DIN of my new dell desktop but it gets the job done.
Netgear WG311T 108 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter 
2007-01-11
I can only get 54 Mbps max from a 108 Mbps rated adapter. No help from Netgear.
WiFi for my home; it works. 2007-01-03
I bought the Netgear wireless router to make my home WiFi. It works fine, even in my basement. I can take my laptop anywhere in my house, and our desktops in the upstairs bedrooms and the basement all work fine. Great product!.
Flawless, Great Range, Highly Recommended 2008-06-06
I have this card paired with the Super-G WGT624 Netgear Wireless Router. I had some difficulties with the router at first, but now it is working great. When paired with this wireless card you will not be disappointed. The range is fantastic and it connects with ease automatically.
I can use Youtube, iTunes, Netflix and other streaming media devices with this without ANY lag. That's rather impressive.
If you have the WGT624 this is the card that will allow you to transmit at 108Mbps, TWICE the speed of a regular G card. However if you don't have the WGT624 from Netgear there is no need to upgrade to this card because they will only transmit at 108Mbps when they are used together.
replacement of a linksys 2008-04-01
So I didn't actually do any research, I wanted something Netgear with super G capaiblities and this just happened to fit in it. I had to replace a linksys 54mb wireless adapter, it was dropping signals every second with full bars. It also was locking up my computer. I got my Netgear (such fast shipping) and wow. Happy. Reconizes my wireless network right off the bat, 108mb connection (super g wireless router netgear also) and no signal loss. Stable too, no computer crashing since then that i know of. I'm happy with it.
Computer
AMD XP 3200 barton core, socket A (haha)
ASUS A7V600-X
pny 6800 128mb video card agp
1gb of crucial ram
creative audigy z sound card
NETGEAR WGT624 Super-G Wireless Router
No problems 2007-12-22
I have Windows XP. No issues installing it. Took only 5 minutes. Works just fine. I installed the CD. I chose to use Windows to configure the wireless connection and have no problems. Thanks.
Poor Performance 
2007-12-02
Previously, I was using an 54Mbps Exterasys Wireless Adapter and had flawless (literally) connectivity. I purchased a refurbished Netgear WG311T from Tiger Direct for about $25, because I was planning to upgrade from a Gateway with 11mbps max speed to a Gateway with 54 mbps capability, and add an additional PC to the network. Therefore, I have had a chance to use the WG311T with two different Routers and PC's and compare it to a similar adapter, also used with the two Routers and PC's. The adapter has always been used in a room adjacent to the Gateway Router.
I was able to install the adapter with relative ease and had no problems connecting to the network at speeds of 11mbps and 54mbps. However, on powering up, the card locked up my 7 year old Axis PC and 3 year old Dell PCs temporarily at regular intervals. This occurred with my XP Zero Wireless Config setting disabled.
When using the 11mbps Router, dropped connections occurred about every five minutes and self corrected after about one minute. I was able to eliminate dropped connections by making a few simple changes to the card config using the Netgear software. I clicked on the "Advanced Settings" button on the Smart Wizard Settings tab. I then removed the "Wireless Mode" checks for the 108mb and 54mb settings, thereby disabling the higher speeds.
With a 54mbps router I have not been able to eliminate frequent dropped connections after having tried both Zero Wireless and Netgear Utility configurations. The PC no longer has long delays in connecting during startups, however.
The PCI connected wireless 54 meg adapter in my HP Media Center PC works flawlessly on the same network, despite the router's location at the opposite end of a 2000 plus sq foot home. I would recommend it, but can't find the manufacturer listed anywhere in the PC.
My "Two" rating is fairly generous, considering the fact that I would not recommend purchasing this card. Given the amount of frustration waiting during dropped connections, I would not recommend using it if it were given away free. Perhaps it works well with other hardware and/or ISP's, judging by some of the reviews, and therefore might be useful to some.
Very good 2007-11-30
This is a very good card for those that want to experiment with Linux and packet injection, it's fully supported by madwifi-ng. I haven't tried using it in windows but I'm guessing it should work just fine.
