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Bought a new Netgear PCMCIA wireless-N card for my 600x. Before I install it, I’m wondering if any of the past history noted below indicates that there might be a problem with the machine that’s causing me to go through so many connection devices.

o My original netgear PCMCIA wireless-b card worked well for years before failing.

o I switched to a netgear wireless-g usb device. This worked briefly before failing.

o For a couple of years was using a belkin wireless-g usb device, but the odd thing about it was that it would only work in the original 600x usb-1 connection. Every time I booted up it it would tell me that the device could perform faster in a different connection, but no matter how many times I installed/re-installed the belkin device and my CompUSA usb-2 cardbus, I could never get the belkin to work in my usb-2. (Everything else that I use in the usb-2 works fine.)

Before I open the box on the new PCMCIA card, does it sound like I’ll still have wireless problems, or will going back to a PCMCIA be the fix that I need? (Running Windows –XP.)

Thanks.

Maybe there is a problem with the power supply in the PCMCIA slot? That might do some damage to the cards in the long run. Maybe you just bought cheap crapware

Thanks. Cheap stuff could be the issue, but the last two devices were USB, not PCMCIA. That's why I was trying see if something else might be affecting things.