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Belkin F5D7000 Wireless Desktop Network Card | List Price: $49.97
Discount Price: $17.00
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Brand: Belkin
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Device Type - Network Card
- Form Factor - N/A
- Interface Type - PCI
- Cabling Type - N/A
Worked the first time [Posted on 2007-04-04]
Being new to wireless technology, I was unsure of what brand to go with. I read lots of reviews, both positive and negative and ended up settling on the Belkin wireless G router and card. Both worked flawlessly the first time with my Mac (hardwired to the router), PC (wireless), and even the PS3 (wireless). Needless to say I am satisfied with my purchase and the price is hard to beat.Belkin Wireless G Router DSL/ Cable gateway
Extremely Unreliable [Posted on 2007-06-28]
I've had this card for about 6 months now and have had nothing but trouble. The card installed fine, drivers work, but the quality of my connection is terrible. I should actually say the reliability is terrible. I get 5 bars quality from the windows wireless configuration tool, but the connection disconnects randomly. Some days are better than others, where I remain connected to my BELKIN router and I just get ping timeouts every few minutes. This makes it very hard to play most games like normal people. I am always at a disadvantage. I've tried using the Belkin tool to connect, while disabling the windows configurator with no success. My laptop with a Broadcom adapter gets flawless wireless access with the router as well as another desktop on my network that uses a netgear adapter. The bottom line is, if you use your computer for anything other than checking your email, get a card that actually works.
Avoid this product [Posted on 2007-08-28]
I've had this product for several months and it has given me a lot of trouble. I'm finally going to uninstall it and throw it in the trash and go get a different brand of wireless card.
- Signal strength varied from good to low to disconnected even when my laptop sitting 2 feet away had excellent signal strength
- Technical support is lousy. Nice guys, but completely unable to do anything but connect you to the returns department.
Belkin Wireless works great [Posted on 2007-12-15]
This wireless card works real fine, the only drawback is that it is set to always connect at start-up, and it does not offer an option to connect only when requested or initiated.
Card works great! Software stinks! [Posted on 2008-07-03]
Just installed this little jewel in my Dell PC. Installation was a snap. Followed the set-up instructions and everthing installed smoothly. I had the card configured and running in no time. Started out using the Wireless managment software that came with it, that is, until it started loosing connection and refusing to reconnect with an indication that there were no wireless links available. This in spite of the fact I was getting 5 full bars indicated for the designated connector. In frustration, I switched to Windows wireless managment configuration and everything is working rock solid. The software provided with the card also would not reconnect from Stand-by, which was mildly annoying in itself.
This is on an XP-Pro, SP3 OS.
I would give the product 5 stars, but the software took away 2 stars for failing to connect in the presence of a strong signal.
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