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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | The N Wireless Notebook Card connects your notebook computer to a wireless network. Providing greater range and faster speeds, N offers an excellent solution for sending large files such as video, music, photos, and documents among the networked computers in your home.Based on the 802.11n draft, N Wireless enables multiple receivers and transmitters to send and receive data using Intelligent MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) spatial multiplexing techniques, which greatly increases speed, coverage, and the reliability of the wireless network. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 8.7 inches | | Product Width: | 5.9 inches | | Product Height: | 2.4 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.0 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.6 inches | | Package Width: | 6.1 inches | | Package Height: | 2.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.55 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 5 reviews |
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| | Features | Connect your notebook computer to a wireless network to: Stream Music, Share Photos, Enjoy online gaming, Surf the Web, Email and Chat Online
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This product and Belkin support suck!!! Don't buy this product!!! Sep 25, 2008
Installed this and tried to run it with my D-Link 615. Went on youtube to test it on a few videos, but then it kept having a delay spike every 5 seconds and and it runs slower than my Dell wireless G card. The taskbar says I am getting an excellent 300Mps signal, but the expresscard won't run it at that rate. I called customer support to try to solve the problem, but the CSR told me it is the rounter's fault and that it's broadcasting in wireless G instead of wireless N. When I asked him why my taskbar was showing I was getting an excellent 300Mps signal, he couldn't answer. I am currently shopping for another wireless N adapter for my laptop. If anyone knows a trick for making this Belkin product work, I am all ears.
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I was a longtime Belkin fan and this card is TERRIBLE, support is nonexistent May 06, 2008
First, the bottom line: this card provides a paltry 54 Mbps speed only! My wife's HP/Windows XP notebook's built-in NIC died so I bought this since the rest of my network is all Belkin wireless pre-N, and works perfectly.
The engineering for this one must have been be outsourced since it doesn't perform at all like the Belkin quality products I'm used to. First, the installation CD that shipped with this didn't autostart, so I manually installed the driver and I couldn't get it to connect. I downloaded and installed the "beta" driver from Belkin and got the card to connect up. This "beta" hasn't been refreshed since it was released on 2/8/2008, three months ago. This tells me that Belkin isn't really investing any resources on this card.
I've contacted their support group and am waiting to hear back. However, I'm not optimistic about getting the "up to 300 Mbps" speed from this thing, and am not about to settle for the 54 Mbps speed so will likely return this and buy something from another brand. If I get pleasantly surprised by Belkin with a solution to this issue I'll update my review.
5/7/2008 UPDATE: received a response from Belkin support. They didn't read my problem statement, which clearly described the ExpressCard problem. I also told them the card is communicating through a Belkin Pre-N wireless router, lest they come back requesting more information. Well, the person who answered my email (I refuse to call them a support person) ignored the problem with the ExpressCard altogether, and told me my router won't transmit above 54 Mbps since it's pre-N, and therefore, the router is working as designed. Even that is bs, since my router transmits and is received by my other notebook, with a Belkin pre-N notebook card at 108 Mbps consistently.
At this point I have lost confidence in Belkin. They seem to have outsourced both the engineering, and the support, to someplace where they have no clue. I only hope the former highly skilled and knowledgeable US employees have found great jobs at one of the other network products companies. I'll be finding out.
Not for Vista Mar 22, 2008
I've had this device for over a year and have been waiting for Belkin to issue a driver that will work with Vista. To date, even with the Belkin "Vista Beta" driver the best speed this card has been able to give is 54 Mbps, well short of my other older pre-N card that delivers 108 Mbps over my Wifi network.
Belkin support has been less than helpful even after a 10 - 15 min. wait on hold. I recommend that you go with Belkin's USB device, or a different manufacturer's device.
It doesn't do what it says it does Jan 26, 2008
The installation is a breeze. The set up disc is spot on.
But, once the device was installed and working, it only ran at 54Mbps, or 802.11(g)speed. No improvement over the internal card in my HP Laptop.
BTW, I have a USB N adapter from Linksys that works at 270Mbps, so the network is at N speeds. The Linksys adapter is not as easy on the eyes, as the Express card, so that's why I bought it.
I am waiting for an RMA as I write this.
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 Seems to go to sleep a lot... Dec 24, 2007
This card was a quick install in my HP Media Center PC with a PCI-to-ExpressCard adapter. I wanted my PC to have built-in N wireless and thought it would be more flexible to have an ExpressCard adapter instead of just a wireless PCI card.
At first I really liked this card. When it was connected it had a fast connection and the signal strength was fine. After a while, it seemed to run hot, but I figured as long as it was still connecting to my Belkin router it didn't matter. About a month or so after I bought it I noticed I would lose my Internet or home network connection quite often. When I held the cursor over the wireless network icon in the task bar, it would say the speed was 24.0 Mbps or 12.0 Mbps or even 0.0 Mbps. Normally, I would be getting G speed of 54.0 Mbps since my old router did not have N speed (up to 300Mbps).
It began to seem as if the card was slowly shutting down even when I was active on the PC itself. I will say it rarely dropped to 0 while I was actively cruising the Internet, but I could never find any settings to ensure the card didn't go into "sleep" mode. Of course, this may have been a result of the heat generated, but I didn't think it was worth calling tech support to investigate a seventy-dollar card so I sold this card and plan to buy a USB wireless N adapter instead. Maybe this card would work better in a laptop's ExpressCard slot?
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