Beware if ordering Compex WL54G card!

That's VERY common in the wireless biz. Several reasons;

1. FCC re-certification can sometimes be circumvented by recycling the model number even though the guts are completely different by claiming it's a "change in board vendor" or some such manure.
2. Retailers do not want to stock both the old and the new models at the same time. As soon as the new models appear, they will return the old stock to the distributor or manufacturer for credit as being unsellable or obsolete. Recycling the model number allows the retailers to deplete their stock gracefully.
3. Most customers don't care as long as it works. However, in this case, the difference is apparently non-trivial.

That doesn't mean much when you think you are ordering an other like the one you have. In this case ordering apples gets you oranges, and not more apples.

Almost everyone making wireless and ethernet cards these days.

Cowboy wrote in news:Cowboy.1m48gy@WiFi- Forum_dot_com:

Check their website...

It would have been nice to have changed model #'s, but at least they do tell you on their website.