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William F.

William F.

Joined on 06/09/01

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Most Favorable Review

Passed H2testw

Team Xtreem 64GB microSDXC Flash Card With Card Reader Model TUSDX64GUHS05
Team Xtreem 64GB microSDXC Flash Card With Card Reader Model TUSDX64GUHS05

Pros: It passed H2testw just fine.

Cons: The included usb 2 adapter was, of course, slow as hell when formatting and checking the card.

Most Critical Review

Flakier than generic raisin bran

Rosewill RCR-IC001 - 3.5" Internal 40-in-1 Card Reader with USB 2.0 Port & Extra Silver Face Plate
Rosewill RCR-IC001 - 3.5" Internal 40-in-1 Card Reader with USB 2.0 Port & Extra Silver Face Plate

Pros: It's a good price, and it hooks to a USB header.

Cons: I couldn't get any (known good) SD cards to read. Yes, I know the slot is upside-down. The USB port did work with a flash drive, but as soon as I plugged it in, my USB keyboard and UPS stopped working. When I I tried to shut down Windows to remove the reader, it froze for 10 mins, finally bombing out in a bluescreen with a warning of a misbehaving driver. After I uninstalled it, my USB keyboard was being flaky and Windows still was unable to shut down. I finally managed to fix it by booting into safe mode, and doing a system restore from a couple of weeks prior.

Overall Review: I bought a $7 card reader thinking that It coldnt' be all that bad. Instead it takes down my computer and sucks up an evening of my time fixing Windows. The reviews indicating poor QC seem to have a solid basis. Stay far away.

finally got wds bridging working between my two TEW-637AP

TRENDnet TEW-637AP Wireless Easy-N-Upgrader 802.11b/g/n and 802.11e up to 300 Mbps
TRENDnet TEW-637AP Wireless Easy-N-Upgrader 802.11b/g/n and 802.11e up to 300 Mbps

Pros: Cheap Get to keep my DD-WRT router.

Cons: Firmware interface. Original firmware was quite buggy for all but basic use. Poor documentation. non-upgradable antennas

Overall Review: I'd say that this was worth the sale price that I paid for it, but for the MSRP this is way too limited a piece of hardware. I got it for about half of MSRP. I got my first during a sale, and then another later when I saw the same price. I wanted to set up WDS bridging between the them. With the original firmwares (1.02 and 1.1.something) on the two units, I couldn't get it working. I just used one of them as a basic AP, and that worked fine. Today, I noticed that Trendnet has a new firmware (1.2.0.26) up on their site that let me finally get it working. The non-upgradable antennas are a bit of a bummer. I added some parabolic reflectors I made from pasteboard and foil (freeantennas.com/projects/template2) to the antennas of one of the units. after some tweaking of antenna position, I managed to consistent transfers of 40 Mbps between them. Some say that the 100 Mbps port is a drawback, but consider yourself very lucky if you are limited by it in real word transfer rate

Isn't passing Memtest at any spec

Transcend 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model JM4GDDR2-8K
Transcend 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model JM4GDDR2-8K

Pros: Cheap supports standard jdec voltage

Cons: I'm on my second set, and I still can't get it to pass memtest. I dial back the speed from 800 to 666. I get errors. I bump the latencies up from 5-5-5 to 7-7-7. I still get errors.