( 6 reviews )
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Posted: Aug 14 2009
I had read the bad reviews below, but I still bought the product. The result is I am happy with my decision. Easy to setup, just follow exactly the instruction. Work well with Vista 64bit and Trendnet N router. It gets nearly-full signal-bar through one thick wall, fair through three rooms. 802.11 N is total great in high speed rate. You can see the clear difference between n and g. $49.99 from amazon is not too expensive if you already have N router and want to experience the highest tech.
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Posted: 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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Posted: May 6 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.
