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Price	—	$49.71	$34.73	$23.98	$34.99
Delivery	—	Get it as soon as Thursday, May 9	Get it May 3 - 7	Get it as soon as Thursday, May 9	Get it May 6 - 9
Customer Ratings	2.810	3.595	3.822	4.111	5.01
Sold By	—	USMCVET	HQ Tech	2MKSales	Registered USA Business
data transfer rate	108 megabits per second	108 megabits per second	22 megabits per second	—	324 megabits per second
data link protocol	USB	Ethernet	IEEE 802.11b	USB	USB
hardware interface	usb, ethernet	pci	usb	usb	usb
weight	0.65 pounds	0.2 kilograms	1 pounds	0.44 pounds	—

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Product Dimensions

3.19 x 0.98 x 0.51 inches

Item Weight

10.4 ounces

ASIN

B0006TI9ZS

Item model number

DWL-AG132

Customer Reviews

2.8 10 ratings

2.8 out of 5 stars

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

No

Date First Available

November 28, 2004

Manufacturer

D-Link Systems, Inc.

Language

English

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The DWL-AG132 Wireless USB Adapter is a Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter that adds high-performance 802.11a/g wireless connectivity to your desktop or notebook PC via the convenience of USB. Avoid the hassle of stringing Ethernet cables to your computer or dismantling your desktop PC case to insert a wireless adapter. Simply plug in the DWL-AG132 into an available USB 2.0 port and enjoy the freedom of wireless networking. The DWL-AG132 is designed to connect out of the box with other AirPremier AG products making this USB adapter a plug and play solution. The site survey configuration utility discovers available nearby wireless networks to get you connected quickly. This utility can create detailed connectivity profiles to save and manage your most frequently accessed networks. For accessing secure networks, this Wireless USB Adapter supports both WPA-Personal and WPA-Enterprise. Now you can utilize EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS and PEAP for secure user authentication through an 802.1x RADIUS server. Data over the air is encrypted using either TKIP or AES. It can be used in peer-to-peer mode (ad-hoc) to directly connect to other 802.11a or 802.11b/g wirelessly enabled computers for direct file sharing, or in client mode (infrastructure) to connect with wireless access points or routers.

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Vcj

Works great with my dell b130

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2015

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Works great with my dell b130. I never had problems connecting to the internet. This wireless adapter was easy to set up and easy to use.

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Sid S

Dlink loves to consistently crash (blue screens!)

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2007

My Windows XP system was running very stable and fast. Ever since I installed this 802.11 adapter, I'm getting blue screens consistently when I'm doing heavy internet activity. If I just leave the machine up with the connection up but NOT using the connection, it blue screens rarely.

What is worse, its somehow even crashing my machine when I connect other USB devices ( I disconnect the devices properly, telling windows to eject them). This never happened before installing this adapter.

Considering how stable my machine used to be (3-4 months avg up time before I'd restart it), it's pathetic that it now blue screens every couple of hours. They haven't addressed this issue - their driver on the website is the same it's been for 2-3 years.

I've tried a fresh install twice already and am now looking for a better product from some other manufacturer!

Bottomline: DON'T BUY this if you value the stability of your system.

PS: I wish there was a 0 star rating. This doesn't deserve even 1 star.

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R. Bilaney

Does not handle hibernate/stand by modes. Gives Blue screen crashes on Windows XP

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2006

I have been using it on a desktop (XP Media center 2005) fir a year now.

The adapter's driver is problematic. Whenever I resume from hibernate or standby, the driver crashed my computer. Talked to tech support and they could not help me at all. (I had followed all the directions specified in the manual for its installation).

So I currently don't hibernate my PC :(

Works well on a freshly restarted machine though...

Unless they have an updated driver, I would not recommend buying this. (I am using the driver it shiped with and have not seen any updates to it on dlink's web site)

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Bryon Gaskin

Performance is OK but could be better

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2006

I have seen the "Blue Screen of Death" a few times, but it is not something that happens all of the time. I can't complain too much about the product considering I picked it up at Fry's Electronics for $19 after a mail in rebate. I needed a USB adapter because the PCMIA card interface went bad.

Pros:::
(....)
*The extension cable is a nice add-on. Even if you don't need it for the AG132 it fits other USB devices as well. The AG132 is a little more bulky than most other USB devices so it can get a little crowded near your USB ports. I did not see the performance gain from plugging the adapter into the extension cable. In fact, performance was slightly degraded. (which was a surprise)
*Can be switched between laptops and desktops
CONS:::
*Occasional Blue Screen of Death. (When this happens it tends to happen when the system is booting into XP)
*Occasional when the system comes out of standby you can't get a signal no matter how close you are to the access point. In order to get a signal you have to remove the card, wait a few seconds and plug it back in.
*Performance could be a little better.

Overall Recommendation:
If you can pick this up for a good price, then you will probably be satisfied. If you are looking for solid performance as your main focus, then you might want to look elsewhere.
I don't know why wireless manufacturers not putting external antenna adapters on wireless devices. If the AG132 had an external antenna adapter I would give it a higher rating.
If you are looking for performance geek, then check out the Buffalo family of wireless cards.
If you are looking for something to connect a home or at the local coffee shop, can deal with some minor issues from time to time, and can pick this adapter up for a good price, then I say go ahead.
If on the other hand you want the best performance 100% of the time, or if you have to pay full price for this adapter, I would look for another manufacturer

**NOTES**
Tested on
Dell Latitude D600 with 256MB RAM
Windows XP service Pack 2

(...)

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Shazman

Excellent

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2008

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Absolutely no problems, work as they said it would. As is with computer hardware, the updated drivers are a must.

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Don B

DWL-AG132 Drivers are driving us crazy

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2005

We have had horrible luck with the drivers for this device. We have the A/G d-link access point which seems to run great and we have strong signals all of the time, but the PC all locked up when we first installed and got the blue screens of death. We have to remove the device from the USB ports when we reboot or in many cases it won't boot. We downloaded what appeared to be new drivers from Microsoft's update point and it looked like it helped a little with the reboots, but we will loose our connection (a few feet away) and the d-link utility will show a 88% signal on the "a" channel and 90% on the "g" channel but we can't connect to either, it will just do nothing. One of our users dropped a 50ft cable to the switch and stopped using it, and the others would if they were closer. D-Link's website is useless always bringing you to a useless screen when asking for technical support or downloads. I give it a 1 because when it works it works great, but it is so unreliable I'm looking for a way to replace it without breaking the bank.

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Noel S.

Blue Screen of Death

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2005

I tried calling customer support, but after spending an hour on the phone with a very nice lady in India, we determined that the device simply wouldn't work with the version of XP running on my machine. I was told that I wasn't the first person who had reported the problem of the driver causing XP driven systems to crash. So, I'm back to my Linksys A/B USB that can't hold a signal for very long. The only reason I'm giving this two stars is that before it crashes, it does always seem to get a nice strong signal. If only D-Link could hire someone to create drivers for them, I wouldn't be looking for a new devicse.

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hyeonsuh koo

blue screen of death on usb equipment ....

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2006

when usb card or device uses more electricity ten the usb

port can offer (usually 500ma) it goes to blue screen

especially on laptops...and on small pc s.

the reason i think is with in the 108 acceleraton argorythm

that could suck up more than usb port can give , hence error occurs.

so if you dont want your pc/laptop to go blue ,

dont use the super-G mode.

i think 5ghz router users must have a backup adapter like this

at hand.

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Brand	D-Link
Hardware Interface	USB, Ethernet
Compatible Devices	Desktop
Data Link Protocol	USB
Data Transfer Rate	108 Megabits Per Second
Item Weight	10.4 ounces

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