Belkin Wireless PCI Card

Advantages: Simple setup, manages itself
Disadvantages: Very occasional low signal

...Following on 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 were no real surprises. There was the PCI card, the antenna, a quick installation guide and a CD which contained the drivers and a full manual. --Installation-- On reading the quick installation guide, it was apparent that the software had to be installed before the card was plugged in. The reason for this was because, when the hardware was detected, the software would...

craggybuk 21.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of Belkin Wireless G Desktop Card F5D7000

Budget wireless card

Advantages: Cheap, fairly fast, and useable
Disadvantages: Poor reliability, poor installation method, and lacks WPA and WPA-PSK support

...There are a huge number of PCI WiFi cards out there, so it's often hard to tell which are the better buys; the better value, the better quality and 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 well with obstacles of many kinds. Walls, pipes in walls, microwaves and halogen lightbulbs cause a drop in performance; noticeably more than in other similar devices. Even without such barriers, it still occassionally cuts out. It is...

plastik 03.02.2008 · Read review
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Belkin Wireless G Notebook Card

Advantages: Wireless Internet
Disadvantages: None

...The Belkin Wireless Notebook Card is a good product. the card is only for LAPTOPS not for computers. the good thing about this product is that just say your in your bedroom or in your kitcen or maybe in your garden you can use the internet without any wires and no hassle at all. but you have to remember you need to have a belkin wireless internet network to make this product work for your laptop. I have my very own Belkin Wireless G Notebook card and it runs as fast as when i use to have an ethernet connection i.e. cable internet connection. When i bought my newtwork card it cost me £25.00 but on ciao they are giving you a really good price for it so i recommend buying the product. if you have any questions please let me know and i will be at assistance Hope I Was Useful Thanks For Reading...

D4DDYF 12.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Belkin Wireless G Plus Notebook Card Network adapter

Belkin 802.11g Wireless Card

Advantages: No more cables
Disadvantages: non

...I got three of these to set up a wireless network for my home computers 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 an easy and intuative setup. Its not only the 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...

rik_uk3 17.03.2005 · Read review
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"Pre-N"inent Wireless Performance

Advantages: Range, Speed, Reliability
Disadvantages: Bulkier than other PC-Cards, slightly more expensive

...) technology that 802.11n relies on for its improvements. While NetGear have seized the MIMO brand for their new product, Belkin have opted for the more honest "Pre-N" label, indicative of the fact that the product is pre-standard. So why would I buy a pre-standard networking technology? Well, if you've read my review of the Belkin Pre-N wireless router (shameless plug), you will have some ideas. To summarise, I was having problems with my old Belkin 802.11g router. Range and bandwidth were both at fault and the Pre-N promise of an 800% increase in range and a doubling of throughput was too good to pass over. So I bought a Pre-N router and got a free Pre-N network card with it. At this point, it's worth stating that you will only get any advantage from the Pre-N technology if both your access point AND your PC are running Belkin's own Pre...

LegendaryMrDude 03.12.2005 · Read review
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Review of Belkin Wireless Pre-N Desktop Network Card Network adapter

WIRELESS GAMING - AT A PRICE

Advantages: Wireless connectivity to Xbox live, Simply to setup
Disadvantages: Ridiculously expensive, Doesn't come in black to match my Xbox 360 Elite

...If, like me, you have an Xbox 360, you will no doubt be aware of the dynamic and enjoyable facility available to you online, namely Xbox live. Xbox live is a place where you can download demos and game add-ons, chat to your friends, and stream movies and videos direct to your Xbox 360 in glorious high definition. But while the Nintendo Wii and the Sony Playstation 3 can go online straight from the box without any additional hardware, Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, decided not to include wireless connectivity as standard in the Xbox 360. This leaves you with a couple of options should you wish to get your Xbox 360 online; an Ethernet cable from your router is probably the cheapest way, but in these wireless days I was really looking at reducing the cables stretching around my home, not add to them. There is another method...

tractor-boy 28.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Networking Adapter Network adapter

Fast and easy wireless

Advantages: Fast, Easy installation, small, built in aerial
Disadvantages: None

...Having a number of laptops in the house, as well as a couple of networked computers, we decided to buy a wireless router for the internet. Whilst the newest laptop had wireless built in, my somewhat older one did not, so I purchased a wireless card. Having a Netgear router, I decided to go for a Netgear card, and came away with the WPN511. Netgear is also a respected and trusted name in networking for homes and businesses, with a reputation for simple, functional and good value products. The card itself is roughly credit card size, and about 5mm thick, with a roughly 30mm extension on the end that sticks out of the computer and contains the aerial and some lights. It is very lightweight, and easy to store when not in use, which is useful since it's generally not able to be left in the computer when packed into a carrying case...

C-J-C 02.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of NETGEAR RangeMax Wireless PC Card WPN511

Wireless ready!

Advantages: Plug-and-Play
Disadvantages: Pricey!

...Having tried to connect my 360 via ethernet to my wireless connection, through my Mac or my Windows laptop, and having no success, this provided the only feasible solution. Unfortunately, unlike the PS3, the Xbox 360 is not wireless-ready out of the box, and in order to make it so, you must invest a further £50+, which is quite a pain in the rear. Unfortunately, it seems that, in making the console itself so cheap and appealing, Microsoft aim (as always) to make their money on the peripherals, which everybody needs for the full gaming experience. Nevertheless, this does exactly what it says on the box (sorry to be cliched). Plug-and-Play, as expected, you connect it to your console and through your dashboard, search for your wireless connection and, with your WEP key or security key at hand, you can instantly connect to your...

cstanley_2 22.08.2008 · Read review
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My Wireless Adventure Continues

Advantages: Easy installation, good connectivity
Disadvantages: Slower speeds than expected

...I'm always being moaned at for hogging the computer so I decided to set up a network so both my girlfriend and I can access the internet from different parts of the house. In order to do this you need a wireless modem router to sit with the main PC and then for each additional PC you need to run off it you need a connection source, for a laptop computer you need a wireless network card (a USB variation is available for desktop pc's). I decided to purchase my card from Argos as I noted they had the same modem as the one I purchased. They had two different options a standard card priced £29.99 or a Rangemax card priced £49.99. As my router is was a Rangemax router I opted to get the same model card much to the disgust of my wallet. Having already installed my router (please read my earlier review) this second part was even simpler. I...

sghawken 06.08.2006 · Read review
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Review of NETGEAR RangeMax Wireless PC Card WPN511

Xbox 360 wireless

Advantages: Easy to use, Reliable
Disadvantages: Expensive

...Xbox live is undoubtedly one of the main draws of the Xbox 360, and due to the fatc my Xbox was too far from a wired internet connection, i had to find a wireless way. The official wireless adapter seemed the best choice, widely availble, and being official, pretty much guaranteed to work. And thats true, it worked, very easily, simply plugging into the back, then scanning for connections on my xbox, then at the push of a button I was connected. It is a very good piece of kit, however it is rather expensive, as its counterparts for laptops and PCs would be available much cheaper. I have had some issues with the internet choosing not to connect, but these are rare, and on occasions the connection can be rather slow. I would stioll recommend this nonetheles, as it is a reliable piece of equipment that allows Xbox 360 users...

MattayBoy 21.11.2007 · Read review
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