Meritline WiFi CF card, $31?! Whaaaah?!

[Palm Cow]

http://store.yahoo.com/meritline/mewlwicoflad.html

This looks bogus ... I mean, $30 for a CF WiFi card ... where's the catch? It just makes me uneasy, the price is so nice.

[BigDaddy]

Most likely it is the real deal. Remember that unlike a few years ago when only a select few had PPC and you needed a costly expansion pack for the CF or PC Cards, most current model PPC have built in WiFi along with Bluetooth (used my old 3975 to connect to my network via a bluetooth connection on one of my desktops and work perfectly, a 1MB connection was more than enough to browse pages using pocket IE, view video/audio clips, or sync). This is why they are giving these cards away for free. Though I do not see the need for them, it is only a matter of time before CF cards or built in units start using the wireless G or upcomming N standard which will cause WiFi CF cards as such to be work as much as a 16/32/64MB CF card.

Also you can find a Linksys WCF12 for about that price on ebay.

Good luck

~BD

[Palm Cow]

Thanks for the reassurance. But it still makes me uneasy, err, like, at BestBuy, this kind of thing goes for $70-$80. I'll check out eBay, hadn't thought of them.

[BigDaddy]

eBay (WCF12)

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&krd=1&from=R8&MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&query=wcf12

eBay (Linksys Bluetooth)

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=linksys+bluetooth&ht=1&sosortproperty=1&from=R10&BasicSearch=

Also, CompUSA (Who I hate and do not trust for purchases over $500.00) had the WCF12 on special for 29.99 limit one per customer, you might want to check and see if they are running that again.

Good luck

~BD

[Palm Cow]

Well the WCF12 is up to 80USD again and there isn't one near me anyway. I've been checking eBay ... would a Dell WiFi CF work with my Toshiba?

[BigDaddy]

I have no idea...but I would not chance it...Keep looking, I am sure you will find a WCF12 for about 35-40usd. I am also heading over to burbank (CompUSA and Fry's Electronics there), if I see a good deal(35-40) I will pick one up for you and ship it to you for free (I always have the option of returning it if you do not want it).

~BD

[Palm Cow]

Really? This community is uber awesome ... but I registered over a year ago for some reason ... lol.

I'll keep looking at ebay and local stores for deals. OfficeMax has a 256MB SD card for 90-25 Instant-15 Mail-in=$50! I should get it, right? I mean, my 64MB Memory Stick cost me that much! Stupid Sony.

[BigDaddy]

sorry my friend no dice on the "In Store" search...eBay is your best bet.... Good luck

[Palm Cow]

Alright! I recently got my eBay account up (2 months ago I think) so I guess I'll just wish myself happy bidding :D.

[Johnny_S]

hey, i got two of those meritline cards. one for my casio e-125, in which, it doesn't work cause they don't support my OS (PC2000), the other one i am sending to someone in trade for a rare stowaway keyboard. He has a iPAQ in that should work fine. i'll let you know how it works out for him. I might part with this thing if I cant get it to work. Have to get a Netgear MA 701 i believe.

BTW bigdaddy, nice icon you have there.

[Johnny_S]

oh, the meritline card is comes in a sparklan package, which is made by gemtek - go figure.