when i first bought this card, i had a Rev A3 which was DOA so i returned it and got a Rev A2 instead.
i've read many many reviews about DOA and i figured im not that unlucky, well i was. if at first it doesn't work, return it and get another one. dont waste time like i did.
i installed it on to two of my XP SP2 machines at home. both took some trouble shooting because of bluescreens, freezes, card not installed, blah blah blah, all the things we've seen so far. but i figured i'd share to everyone what fixed it for me. both machines had different mobo, cpu, video cards, but the thing that had it common was the sound blaster live card they had. once i removed it, the card installed fine with no problems at all. used the latest artheos drivers. so that's something to keep in mind... maybe it's drivers from the card that causes issues, or maybe sound cards themselves... im not sure...
as for performance, i have my DIR-655 in the living room, about 25-30 feet away from the router, through two walls, i could only get 108mbps (reported from the router) and about 30% signal strength. i also have the ANT24-0230 connected to it. the speed was very disappointing because i have a DWA-140 and i tested it on the same machine and it was reporting 162-216mbps...
im mainly posting this up because when i was looking around, i could never find a clear cut solution for all the problems people were having and what kind of performance they were getting... well i hope this helps someone
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