ENCORE ENLWI-N Wireless Adapter IEEE 802.11b/g, IEEE 802.11n Draft 2.0 PCI 2.3 Up to 300Mbps Wireless Data Rates

Pros: Alright guys here is the low down on this one.

It uses the RT2860 chipset, which is pretty new. They have support for WindowsXP 32/64bit and Vista 32/64bit.

They have also, released a legacy linux driver with full source code. From what I can tell its only 32bit but being opensource it shouldnt be long before its ported to 64bit.

The guys at rt2x00 plan on having support for the RT2860 chipset by version 2.1.x

I have purchased it but I havnt recieved it, just sharing my research with whoever was wondering the same thing.

Cons: Havnt recieved yet.

Overall Review: None

Pros: This card works fine in Windows XP. However, don't expect blazing fast connection speeds. I'd say I'm able to tap into about half the maximum bandwidth of my internet connection.

Cons: I'm not sure how important long antennas are, but these ones seem to be awfully short and the connection is all over the map. It will go from 54 mbps one minute to only 1 mbps the next.

The Windows 7 64-Bit drivers are horrible. They work intermittently at best and my download speeds dropped significantly with the newest drivers. How bad? Well I have a 6 meg connection and I can't even get connection speeds greater than 100 kbps.

Also, I get constant system lags and stalls when I'm connected to my wireless network with this card. It stalls every 3-4 seconds. Imagine dragging your cursor across your desktop screen and every 3-4 seconds it freezes for a second, and then unfreezes and then freezes again, and unfreezes. This happens constantly! It's not the router because I've connected two different ones and it exhibits the same problem

Overall Review: I've had this card for about 3 months now and I was happy with it up until a few weeks ago when I upgraded to Windows 7. I'm sure they'll fix this issue with time, but for now it's an absolute headache.