When we removed the antenna from one of the cards, part of the PC Card case came off with it. Pricing for Proxim's product is middle of the road. 2Mbps PC Card Symbol's Spectrum24 PC Card combines a solid hardware design, an excellent feature set and noteworthy client configuration facilities into a package that proved to be compatible with every AP in our tests. We liked the included configuration utility, easily accessible from the properties menu within the Windows Network Neighborhood. It was significantly easier to use than other vendors' implementations.
Symbol also supplies a site survey utility and other diagnostic tools.
As noted, we were able to connect Symbol's PC Cards to all the other access points and performance was generally very good. Throughput was only around 700 Kbps. We confirmed the problem with both Symbol and BreezeCOM, and both vendors were working on resolving it at press time. In our multistation tests, Symbol achieved above-average aggregate performance at 1.06 Mbps. We tested their 100-milliwatt versions, but Symbol also offers a product with an output of 500 milliwatts.