Belkin Wireless G Desktop Card F5D7000

...from my review of the Belkin wireless router, this is the piece of kit at the other end of the link. The PCI Desktop Card is whats required to allow the PC to communicate with the router. This product cost me £25 when I bought it. I was interested in the Belkin wireless router, so I played safe and used the same manufacturer for both items that would allow the router and my PC talk to each other. --Whats in the box-- On opening the box, there ...
...nothing else to do. This product complements the Belkin wireless router perfectly, although it can be used, just as easily with other routers. I would highly recommend this wireless card to anyone, whether they are new to the wireless scene of just looking to upgrade their exisiting setup. ...

craggybuk 21.05.2007 · Read full review
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Well, this card is, in theory, has good solid connection speeds, is out of the way, requires no wires so you are free to move your computer anywhere you wish [a must with laptops], is good value for money and is very user friendly. However, i found this card was very difficult to install - my parent's friend [who is a network specialist] had agreed to install the cards and network for us. Having shut down my computer, opened the side panel and inserted ...
...the box, i powered my computer up again. Now the computer registered the card's presence, and explained in some words that the card had been installed. 'Excellent', I thought to myself. The 3 step instructions they cleverley place on the box for a selling point seened to have been just as it had said. I gleefully awaited my new computer to recieve 512kb\s broadband connection. However, upon my computer loading into windows, there was no internet ...

Doofeh 21.05.2004 · Read full review
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...shopping around we found the Belkin cards for £35 (or thereabouts) and were told there were good quality and we could easily connect the two PCs together with them without bothering with wires. This is where my review proper begins as when I got home and installed them (according to the limited instructions) I tried everything I could to get the computers to "talk to each other". I visited the Belkin website where, to my delight, I found a tutorial ...
...with the cards. However, this did not help either as all I managed to do was disable my internet to the point where I had to call my ISP to get reconnected. Eventually, I had to hire a professional and found out I had to buy a wireless access point (the very thing I sought to avoid) and could only afford the 802.11b model. So now my network only runs at 11mbps. Due to the differences in hardware etc. I cannot say whether this will affect all users ...

fireeatingelf 19.05.2004 · Read full review
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...Telephone Support from Belkin was fantastic the problem that I was having is that I could see someone's else wireless network and i kept trying to connect to them. Belkin talked me through how to set up my own network (which was very Easy) They even took the time to try and connect it to my PDA device to the network. Works extremely well with my PDA. It see's my wireless network connection - I set WEP (Wireless Enabled Password) To stop others from ...
...- I am not someone for RTFM but it helps if you do. But I cannot stress enough how fantastic Belkin Support was - They even phoned me back after 4 hours to make sure it was still working ok. - Now that is telephone Support at it's best. ...

KSpeirs 07.06.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Belkin Wireless G Desktop Card F5D7000

If you are looking to set up a wireless network in your home i strongly recommend this wireless card. It uses wireless G technology as well as being backwards compatible with wireless B products. Because of wireless G it will run at network speeds of up to 54mbps. It will also work with wireless stuff by other manufaturers. Mine is linked to a Linksys access point and i have had no problems. Thanks to it being plug and play It is easy to install. ...
...Evenif you havent it comes witha set of easy instructions to installing it, which i had to use. I had never installed a card into my pc before and i installed this with ease. It comes with instructions, software and a small antenna as shown in the image. The software is basic and easy to use aswell. The only problem is the antenna that it comes with. Unless the other computer its linked to is quite close you may have problems. So i would recommend ...

midget_man_haz 22.04.2005 · Read full review
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The belkin wireless card allows you to connect to the internet and browse other computers on your home or office network without the need for cables. The card is robust and has a good design, and the omni-directional screw-in antenna is handy and really a must for any wireless card. This is a 54g card, capable of sending and receiving data at speeds up to 54mbps, which is the max speed for modern 802.11g wireless networks. Whereas there is no doubt ...
...example but at the price of some frustration. The installation procedure requires you to install the software before putting the card into the pci slot. This can be very awkward if your computer is under a desk as you have to switch it off again, pull it out, open up the case and install it. You would expect it to be the other way around, but oh well. Apart from that, nothbing else to complain about the card. The software that comes with this device ...

patwanet 19.08.2005 · Read full review
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I needed this card to connect a pc to my wireless network at home. I have a D Link DSL wireless router. Setting up the card in a machine running Windows 98 wasnt too difficult, and I had it working in about an hour. The network was already set up, as it had been ethernet cabled before. After a few months, the card started intermittently losing the connection. As I was replacing the pc before long, I lived with it, but when I took the card out to ...
...was loose, the build quality is very poor, and the fine copper thread had stripped, it was only held by one thread it seems. I fixed the card as best I could, and fitted it into the new pc running Windows XP. For some reason, it will not now save the WEP encryption key, so every time the machine is booted up, this has to be reinserted again. Altogether I am not impressed with this card. ...

maddad1 24.07.2004 · Read full review
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...the better functionality. Does the Belkin 54Mbps Wireless PCI card The first, and probably only advantage of this wireless adapter is the fact that it has a PCI interface rather than USB 2.0. This means less clutter on your PC desk, more free ports, and normally means a higher quality product. It supports 802.11b and g, so there are few issues of network compatibility, except security, which I'll come on to. Unfortunately, the device does not deal ...
...WPA when you use the Belkin software, forcing you to use the Windows wireless management which does support WPA. Using the Windows software, the card is not compatible with the Windows Wireless icon; basically, Windows will sometimes tell you that you are not connected to a network even when you are, which is rather frustrating. Installation of the card is frustrating. Most PCI devices are plugged in before manufacturer drivers are added. But not ...

plastik 03.02.2008 · Read full review
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...and link them through a Belkin wireless router. You can obviously use these cards on one machine via a router, and you have no cables running all over the place. The installation is very easy, just fit the card in any spare PCI card on your PC. If you use XP operating system, the card is found on restarting your PC and asks for the install CD, the software is installed in seconds. You can use the network wizzard in XP to set up your network, its ...
...internet you can share, you can share files via a "shared files" folder that is created during setup. This is handy if one of your machines has large hard drives, where bulky files can be stored and accessed by others on your network. You can also share a printer, which cuts down the need to buy more than one. It can be a bit spooky when the printer next to you starts printing ! Its also nice not to have cables running all over the place, a very ...

rik_uk3 17.03.2005 · Read full review
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...network card along with the belkin wireless g router . Installation was easy enough and the instructions were clear and straightforward. As the card is situated in the pc itself it is discreetly out of the way. The card has a lifetime guarantee and so there are no issues with replacement due to failure. I found this adapter to be quite unreliable with frequent breaks in the signal occuring. The signal strength was also not that good the majority ...
...a usb connection adapter instead which worked fine. This product is not the best but not the worst either. I would recommend if you were using it on NTL with the corresponding belkin router but avoid it in all other cases and go for the usb network adapter. ...

bigbenn5576 11.10.2006 · Read full review
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I brought belkin wireless card to try to cut down the amount of cables seem to running through my house at the moment it’s great I have no problems with it I always have a connection at good speeds and it goes through two floor to get to me I get an average connection of 40Mbps. It’s really easy to install this wireless card, you the wireless in to an empty PCI slot turn your computer on and insert driver disk for the wireless card. If the wireless ...
...I recommend this wireless card as a good deal the only thing that’s let it down is that belkin doesn’t support it to work on Linux systems, but overall it’s a good wireless card to buy have really easy to setup and to follow the instructions provided with it. ...

tgrigg 01.12.2004 · Read full review
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