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I posted this in the "buying advice" forum but now realize that I probably should have put it here. Please forgive my error if so 
Hello! I discovered this site while trying to educate myself before buying my 1st wireless setup. I am so glad I found it. After several days of reading reviews here and elsewhere I bought a D-Link 655. I had considered the DIR-825 and also the Linksys 400N. Unfortunately I think I was misinformed when I was told that Linksys only offers free tech support for the 1st 30 days. As a true noob I figured that I'd need all the tech support I could get and as a result I went with the DIR-655 based mainly on the better "charts" that it had on this site. I also bought the D-Link DWA-160 dual band USB adapter. Neither piece has been opened yet. So here is my question: Would I be better off with a PC card from Linksys (since D-Link doesn't seem to offer a dual band adapter in a PC card)? I would suspect that a PC card is less likely to get broken or damaged, and also would suspect that it is inherently capable of better performance. It also seemed that the DWA-160 had some issues back in the fall of '08 when it was tested on this site. Hoever, after looking on the NewEgg site and on Amazon the "consumer" reviews were actually fairly favorable. Anyway, I really want to set this up today if possible and I am anxious to see if I need to go back to Office Depot to return the adapter or for that matter the router too. Any advice would really be helpful. Thanks in advance.
Hello! I discovered this site while trying to educate myself before buying my 1st wireless setup. I am so glad I found it. After several days of reading reviews here and elsewhere I bought a D-Link 655. I had considered the DIR-825 and also the Linksys 400N. Unfortunately I think I was misinformed when I was told that Linksys only offers free tech support for the 1st 30 days. As a true noob I figured that I'd need all the tech support I could get and as a result I went with the DIR-655 based mainly on the better "charts" that it had on this site. I also bought the D-Link DWA-160 dual band USB adapter. Neither piece has been opened yet. So here is my question: Would I be better off with a PC card from Linksys (since D-Link doesn't seem to offer a dual band adapter in a PC card)? I would suspect that a PC card is less likely to get broken or damaged, and also would suspect that it is inherently capable of better performance. It also seemed that the DWA-160 had some issues back in the fall of '08 when it was tested on this site. Hoever, after looking on the NewEgg site and on Amazon the "consumer" reviews were actually fairly favorable. Anyway, I really want to set this up today if possible and I am anxious to see if I need to go back to Office Depot to return the adapter or for that matter the router too. Any advice would really be helpful. Thanks in advance.
