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Belkin F5D7000 Wireless Desktop Network Card

Belkin F5D7000 Wireless Desktop Network Card

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Works great! I am extremely pleased.
Review: This network card works really great compared to some other ones I have tried. I would definatley reccomend it.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Average connectivity, poor interoperability
Review: Well, I generally assume that only the folks that really hate something will take the time to negatively review a product - that's not the case here.

Belkin had a product in stores that I could use with my Netgear 54G Cable/DSL Wireless Router so I thought I'd give it a go (a bit impatient). I bought two cards as I have two machines that I put this card into. The first machine responds fairly well, although not working at 54G, it does maintain a connection from the basement to the living room. The second machine however is in a less desirable location on the second floor (one up from the living room) and despite a reported "Excellent" signal strength/connection the connection was flakey at best - after random occasions of functionality I decided to go track down the Netgear equivalent card - I plugged in the new card (Netgear WG311NA) and had a substantially stable connection to the router.

Understand, when you buy 54G devices right now that they are all built on the intermediate specification for the 54G standard. This means that communication between one manufacturer's device and another is less than desirable. It may very well be that, had I a Belkin router this would not have been an issue. However, for my situation - this card prooved to be less satisfactory that the mentioned Netgear equivalent.


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