The adapter is located about 30 feet from the router with three walls and plenty of electrical wiring in between (electrical wiring causes interference). Although my desktop computer only registers 54-108 Mb/s with a 3/5 signal strength, I am easily able to achieve average download speeds of 10 Mb/s down and 3 Mb/s up on a 12Mb/s cable connection, according to. Pros: This device is far faster and has a much farther range than my previous G-Band wireless adapter. Some reviews wrongly suggest adapter is faulty. Passing through walls, 5GHz band drops more than 2.4GHz band I see a 30% difference. The current v2 adapter has a push-to-connect button, but you have full control clicking on the tray icon. The driver for the full price WNDA3100v2 does not state Win2K support (but might work the same way). The downloaded driver for this Netgear WNDA3100v1 (version 1) adapter (as described on the Netgear product support web page) supports Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
NETGEAR WNDA3100 RANGEMAX DUAL BAND INSTALL
Instruction sheet says download driver install program from Netgear. Once installed, this adapter works just fine thru the external hub / USB-port expander! Install worked okay when adapter was plugged directly into notebook USB. Initial install failed when WDA3100 adapter was connected thru external hub. Overall Review: This challenging install works fine: Old notebook, limited resources, old O/S, Windows 2000 SP4, USB1.1 port, 300MHz Pentium with only 128M RAM. Would be nice if LED could be turned off to minimize battery depletion. I applied a paper label to dim it to acceptable level. If plugged directly into PC USB port, it protrudes more than a CardBus (PC Card style) adapter. (until now, I could only get WEP to work) Gives WPA2-PSK encryption on 1999 Sony Vaio notebook! Pros: Trouble free installation and setup when used with Netgear WNDR3700 router.
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