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121 of 124 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Firewire as the alternative Network, 9 Oct 2002
By A Customer
Installation: Very easy, just one screw! Auto-detected and installed by Windows ME fine with no CD needed. (though Windows 98SE would require its CD)Below is what I wanted and have experienced with this NISIS card: To connect my DV camcorder (for recording video to my harddisk) ------------------------------------------------------------ Total success, no problems using both the supplied cable & ULEAD Video Studio 5 - which offers direct DV capture & superb compression to DVD MPEG2 in very easy steps. Even the adding of animated and 3D titles was simple to learn in a few minutes. No apparent loss of quality either in compressing a 605 Meg DV AVI clip to 125 Meg! Network between Windows ME PC and a Windows XP Notebook. -------------------------------------------------------- Works fine. After following the Windows ME Help on 'Setting up a home network' was easy and produced a floppy disk to set up the network on the other PC (my notebook) - but since this had XP the floppy program refused to run. By following the Windows XP Help to produce the floppy disk instead, everything went fine and I now have a working shared folder with fast transfers via the NISIS firewire card. Sharing an Internet Connection ------------------------------ Not so easy, I've tried various things but I suspect I'll need to read more of the windows help and the web to set this up properly. But since this NISIS card works fine for networking I see this as a windows issue and should work with enough fiddling. All in all, a fine card, easy setup and with the free cable is near perfect, giving fast transfers for a cheaper price than most!
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