This card is not what it claims to be!!
Firstly to agree with the reviewer who says the card is not as the photograph he is completely correct. The EDUP card (missing out a letter 'F' I think is a much larger card using a carrier in which is inserted the wireless card, covered over with the blue screening can. This was slightly bent in on the one I received; it came in a freezer bag with a small driver disk. The drivers installed OK but the set up program installed it with United States wireless settings and gave no option to change wireless settings to United Kingdom, so would not connect to the router.
Windows XP gave the driver details for the plug in wireless card not as TRIXES or EDUP but the actual plug in wireless card manufacturer. Their website only had the card drivers not the setup utility. It offered a download to fix problems, but the file was corrupt. I then checked the MAC address which gave the owners of that series of MAC addresses again completely different manufacturer.
Tried...
very quick service
I ordered this wireless lan card yesterday and it arrived this morning. It was very good value for money and works very well. The only small gripe is that I could not find any insallation instructions, but this did not matter as it was easy to install. I installed the drivers before installing the card. After installing the card I used the utility which came with it to automatically configure my connection ( I clicked on the wireless lan utility shortcut on the desktop). I was set up and running in 5 minutes.
If you value your spare time, avoid this card
Let me start by saying I've been an IT technician for over ten years so although I don't know anywhere near everything there is to know, I have been round the block a bit...
Firstly the card I received was not the card in the photograph. I would tell you exactly what card I received but it's impossible to tell without removing the manufacturer fitted cowling around the chipset as there are absolutely no identifying marks or serial numbers apart from the big 'EDUP' sticker right over the top. The initial driver CD contained the wrong drivers (to be fair to the seller, when I complained about this they sent another driver CD however that still didn't have the right drivers on it!). Trying to google for drivers using just 'EDUP' as the search string delivers a variety of drivers, none of which seemed to work with Windows 7 x64.
I have wasted around 4 hours of my life trying to get this card to work and whilst I accept that there is probably a driver out there on...
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