Belkin Gigabit Ethernet ExpressCard with 1 External Port ( F5U250 ) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is the second gigabit expresscard I've tried on my laptop. The first, a Linksys Expresscard Gigabit Eth Adapter Pci Express, has a spring-loaded RJ-45 jack that folds down to allow for easier storage, but doesn't protect the pins well and they eventually broke. That Linksys card was not very fast; I never really got gigabit speeds with it. This Belkin card is significantly faster, and was detected by Ubuntu Linux (7.04, Feisty Fawn) right away, nothing to load or configure. I would buy one of these again in a heartbeat. This Belkin card is not as cool-looking as the Linksys, but it has it where it counts, and that's speed.

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Belkin F5D8073 N Wireless ExpressCard Adapter Review

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(More customer reviews)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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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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