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Belkin F5D8000 Wireless Pre-N Desktop Network Card | List Price: $149.99
Discount Price: $61.99
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Brand: Belkin
Binding: Electronics
Features: - 800 percent greater coverage than standard 802.11g with improved reliability and fewer drops
- 600 percent greater speed than standard 802.11g--great for gaming, streaming video, Voice over IP, and moving large files
- Using this Pre-N card with an older 802.11g or 802.11b networking product increases your wireless coverage up to 20 percent
- Will not drop to the lowest networking speed in a mixed-mode environment if a standard 802.11g or 802.11b device is introduced
- WiFi Protected Access (WPA) support protecting your wireless network with enhanced encryption
Running Pre-N with Vista. I did it! [Posted on 2008-01-31]
Just Got the Pre-N Card and Router. It works great with all my XP computers but I have removable hard drives. One with XP and One with Vista. Called Belkin and they told me they could not help it was not compatible and that is all there is to it. When I put the intall disk in
with Vista it would not run at all. So I hit start and went to my computer and saw the Belkin set up disk in the CD-Rom drive. I right clicked on the set up disk and hit open and saw the set up Icon and then I right clicked on it and opened properties and then opened compatibility menue and ran it in XP compataiblity mode and hit apply and then downloaded the driver and it works perfect. Pre-N works great and now that I have it running on Vista I am elated. I hope this help someone out there with the same problem.
Lousy service [Posted on 2008-04-11]
Item failed to perform. No help from Belkin. Contacted Amazon about return and was informed I had to deal with Computer Brain who informed me I had to pay return freight plus 15% restocking fee for an item that was faulty. Never buy from Amazon again
Best Available? [Posted on 2008-04-30]
I've had one of these Network Cards for about three years, paired with a Belkin pre-N router. It has been reliable and fast in my small home network. When the signal is occasionally lost, it is easily re-established in software and hard rebooting is rarely required. It is my understanding that the Belkin pre-N equipment works better than any N equipment, so I am pleased to find that pre-N components are still available. You won't be sorry if you go the Belkin pre-N route also.
Not Vista compatible - Beware! [Posted on 2008-05-03]
3 months after returning this card and the manufacturer advising they would have Amazon update the site, I still don't see a warning that this is a card not compatible with Vista. Perhaps they have published new drivers to handle Vista - but CHECK THEIR WEB SITE BEFORE YOU BUY.
Belkin Pre-N 170262 rounter [Posted on 2008-05-05]
Router has worked great for years until Vista where I've discovered the problem with uploading a large number of jpeg files to Kodak's ofoto. Router locks up and I have to reboot or unplug it. I think I'll re-install XP, Vista seems to be a dog in many ways.
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