Belkin F5D7010 Wireless 54 Mbps Notebook Card

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 2 x 9 inches ; 6.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000085BCX
• Item model number: F5D7010
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #14,718 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 30, 2002

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Belkin networking presents its latest innovation, the 802.11g Wireless Notebook Network Card. The Card works as an ideal standalone to give you instant networking capabilities. It features breakthrough 802.11g technology that makes wireless file transfers and downloads faster than ever before. 802.11g technology provides you with networking speeds nearly five times faster than the current Wi-Fi (802.11b) standard. The Card sets up with the ease and the simplicity of Plug-and-Play technology on any laptop equipped with a 32-bit CardBus slot. It slides into the 32-bit CardBus slot to enable a wirelessconnection to your network. 802.11g technology is the easiest wireless network to implement. The Card uses the wireless 802.11g 2.4 GHz standard to offer you the widest working range-up to 1800 feet-and greater interoperability in mixed networking environments. 802.11g technology is backward-compatible with the 802.11b Wi-Fi networking standard, so it allows you to implement faster wireless technologies in combination with existing 802.11b Wi-Fi networks.

Product Description
Belkin networking presents its latest innovation, the 802.11g Wireless Notebook Network Card. The Card works as an ideal standalone to give you instant networking capabilities. It features breakthrough 802.11g technology that makes wireless file transfers and downloads faster than ever before. 802.11g technology provides you with networking speeds nearly five times faster than the current Wi-Fi (802.11b) standard. The Card sets up with the ease and the simplicity of Plug-and-Play technology on any laptop equipped with a 32-bit CardBus slot. It slides into the 32-bit CardBus slot to enable a wirelessconnection to your network. 802.11g technology is the easiest wireless network to implement. The Card uses the wireless 802.11g 2.4GHz standard to offer you the widest working range-up to 1800 feet-and greater interoperability in mixed networking environments. 802.11g technology is backward-compatible with the 802.11b Wi-Fi networking standard, so it allows you to implement faster wireless technologies in combination with existing 802.11b Wi-Fi networks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Linux Users Beware, March 8, 2007

By	theblackgecko (Bozeman, MT) - See all my reviews

I purchased this card after borrowing a card with an identical product number from a friend. My friend's card worked out of the box with my version of Ubuntu Linux.
When I received my card, it simply did not work. After doing some research, I found that I had a card with a different version number, and a different chipset. My friend's card had a chipset made by Atheros, which worked out of the box. The card that I purchased had a Broadcom chipset, which is notorious for being incompatible with Linux. Even after going to the forums, I was unable to make the card work.
Belkin is dishonest, in that it makes changes to the chipset without changing the product number, only the version number, which the consumer is not made aware of. Had I been aware that the card had a different chipset, I would not have ordered it.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Belkin's downloadable drivers do not function!, November 10, 2005

By	J. P. Robinson - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am writing this here for anyone having trouble installing this card using Belkin's drivers from their support website.

Simply they are not the right drivers & will not work!

For a working driver for Win9x/2K/XP copy the following into the address bar: http://www.ralinktech.com/drivers/Windows/IS_STA_2500_D-3.0.3.0_U-2.3.6.0_042505_1.0.2.0.exe

This driver is from the actual chipmaker and works fine :-)

Ralink's name for the product is 11g-RT2500 and downloads for other OS's including Mac can be found here: http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm

I hope this helps to shortcut somebody's efforts to get this card working...

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Am So Impressed!!!, December 17, 2004

By	mtck01 (Queens, NY) - See all my reviews

This is a great card. I will admit that I purchased it because I got it for $5 after rebates but I am amazed at the quality. I set this card up in less then 10 minutes and I have been successfully using it for over a week now. Not a single negative thing to say so far but I do live in a small apartment in Queens, NY. I sent over 5GB of data through my network and I still received a 2718/620 speed test using Verizon DSL and a Westell 327 router.