Belkin F5U220 USB 5 Port 2.0 PCI Card

List Price: $69.99

Features:

• Adds 5 USB 2.0 hi-speed ports to your computer
• Backwards compatible with USB 1.1 devices
• Supports up to 127 Hi-Speed devices and 254 Full-Speed/Low-Speed devices from 5 ports
• 480Mbps data speed
• Plug-and-Play installation

Customer Reviews:

Worst item ever! [Posted on 2004-09-20]
I recently bought this card to add on to my HP desktop computer. The card went in easy enough, but that's when the problems started. I put in the disk that came with the card, but over and over my computer wouldn't recognize the card or the program on the disk. I kept having problems occur one after another and other programs starting to fail due to this mess. After almost losing the computer on the second occasion, I was forced to take the card out of the computer. All problems ended immediately! I've had no problems with Belkin's cords and wires, but their cards and hubs, I've had nothing but trouble. Do yourselves a favor and don't get this item. It could cause you nothing but your entire computer to crash. It's not worth your hard earned money to see your computer crash and burn, is it? If you need to add a card, find yourselves a different brand. I, myself, am going to try Adaptec. Hopefully that one won't cause me the problems that I have gotten with this one.

Belkin 5 port USB not good [Posted on 2005-02-08]
I am running Win 2000 pro SP4, w/SOYO Dragon Plus motherboard SY-K7V on my pc and the USB drivers have been a problem. I have had to reinstall them several times and the system has a hard time finding them on the disk. Very little support at the Belkin web site as well. I have gotten the card to run and when it does its great. But when you reboot it trys and fails to reinstall the hardware. I would not recommend this for anyone seeking to add USB 2.0 ports to their pc.

easy to install and no problems [Posted on 2005-10-02]
Just installed one on my Dell 4100 running ME. The driver installation process was the shortest that I have encountered. It was just a few seconds. Now, I do not have to crawl under the table to change out USB cables. Great product. Ebay's prices seem to be similar to Amazon's.

Good Product, Easy to Install [Posted on 2005-10-03]
No complaints from me, everything was as expected, simple to install, no problems getting it to work. It's slightly more expensive than some others, but worth the extra money because it didn't give me a headache trying to get it to work.

It is working perfectly in my old Dell Dimension XPS 4100 [Posted on 2006-02-19]
I couldn't ask for more. It dropped right in and worked flawlessly. I connected it to a 4-port 3.5 inch front-bay USB 2.0 hub using the internal USB port, and that's working just fine too. The hardest part on that was prying out and breaking off the little metal bay cover that the Dimension 4100 uses for RF resistance. Now I have so many USB ports it's almost ridiculous. I have all of my toys connected and still have ports left over.

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