Why I buy this one ?
- Note - increased speeds require a Belkin Pre-N router or access point
- With increased Pre-N speeds & coverage, you can more easily transfer large files!
- Improved resistance to wireless interference - the adapter will sense potential interference and dynamically shift to the clearest wireless channel available
- If a standard 802.11g or 802.11b networking product is introduced into the Pre-N network, the Pre-N adapter will not drop to the lowest networking speed.
- When used with 802.11g & 802.11b devices, the Pre-N adapter improves their wireless coverage by up to 20%!

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What our customer's say!

"hopeless", First off, there is no cards slot for the iMac. My bad for not checking, but the product was touted as compatable with Apples.

But for my PC, this and the Belkin Pre-N router I got, would not set up, ever. I'm not a computer guy, but I'm no dummy and I could not set this thing up. Technical support was worse than unhelpful. They knew less than I did and deflected reponsibility at every turn.

The seller, Shopila, was also unresponsive at their "customer support" email and phone number. I tried four times at each avenue. I sent the cards back and hope to get my money back. If not, I don't know what my recourse will be.

"Great Hardware Poor Software", Works as advertised. Going from "G" to "Pre-N" increased my range by at least 30 feet but more importantly the signal was able to get through walls that that the "G" signal could not penetrate. The drivers work fine but the configuration software supplied with the card does not work very well. Use the Microsoft operating system configuration wizard for best results.

"card didn't work - poor customer service", I bought this card and the Belkin Pre-N wireless router in Nov. 2006 at a BestBuy store during Thanksgiving sale. The router worked but the card did not. I called Belkin many times. Everytime they asked me to re-install the drivers and software for the card but the card never worked. I wasted more than 4 hours on phone and re-installing drivers again and again. Then finally Belkin asked me to ship them the defective card to get a replacement. I pointed out that I should not have to bear the shipping costs because the card never worked to begin with but Belkin was not ready to cover the shipping costs. I have shipped them the defective card today and am awaiting a replacement to arrive.

"Great PC card with very good range", I use two of these cards. I bought one for my neighbor to utilize my wireless Belkin network and have had no problems or dropped connections.

"Noticeably Faster!", Just installed it following the directions from a previous review on this site...THANKS. Its fast! The card DOES SUPPORT WPA ENCRYPTION, just don't install or use the Belkin connection utility. Only install the drivers then cancel and let XP handle the connection. You plug your encryption key back into windows network connection manager when you connect and you are good to go. Have used several newer and supposedly fast adapters and this one smokes them on speed and range. Belkins website says that they were out of stock due to popularity of the product so you would think that they would get the message, pump out more of these and upgrade their software to take advantage of the higher security encryption.

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"Belkin pre-N 802.11 review", This card just only picks up signals well in the open area. If you got a brigde wall, the signals easily gets block, fade or never get picked up at all.Besides, the card is too hot, you could feel the heat around the area if you stay online more than one hour. Generally, the card works fine but with a condition that you need to download the latest driver version from Belkin web site. Hoped this help.

Regards

KC

"Fast, Inexpensive and Outperforms", Previously owned numerous Wifi products now. I must say, the pre-N card and router combiantion (you can find them prepakaged as one at Best buy for $99!) is quite superior to its newest sibling, the N1. Forget paying $150 for the N1 router- It doesn't support 300 Mbps speeds, why? Because the built-in router and switch only support up to 100Mbps! The web interface is slow, plain, and the LEDs are quite often inaccurate. If I wanted to buy a blue night light, I would have.

The N1 card is a joke as well. The speeds are very acceptable- At least from what I've experienced. However, the range I received was embarassing. I would say using the Pre-N card and router, my range is almost DOUBLE! And I can see almost TWICE the number of available networks!

Operation-wise, both worked considerably well. Please remember to upgrade all firmware and drivers from Belkin- You'll be glad you did. Aside from a few occasional restarts, this router functions well.
In the end, this isn't worth it's price. Go for the Pre-N instead.

"Fantastic!", Shipped very fast from pattyir...much faster than I thought it would. The Belkin F5D8010 Wireless Pre-N 802.11x Pre-N Notebook PC Card Adapter works wonderfully. Very easy setup and an immediate connection to the Internet. I'm very pleased!

"Very Fast, Easy to Install, Worth Every Penny", I am a Senior Network Engineer and I have been doing various things in designing, building, and fixing all kinds of networking equipment for about 13 years now. I have installed from scratch several enterprise (or very large office) class wireless networks. I use the Belkin Pre-N wireless router and laptop cards at home for a few reasons:

First to get the best benefit out of the Belkin Pre-N card you'll want to use it in conjunction with the Belkin Pre-N router. Then you'll want to upgrade the Pre-N router firmware (or software) to the latest version available on the Belkin web site.

1) The Speed - 108 Mbps (Mega Bits Per Second) which is faster than the standard 100Mbps Ethernet card in most PC's. However you will never really see this full speed due to the error correcting, radio interference, and overhead in the wireless protocol, but the Belkin Pre-N laptop card in conjunction with the Belkin Pre-N router will be at least 2 times faster than your standard 802.11G wireless cards (including the built in wireless cards in most laptops today). One thing to note you will only see the greater speed if you use the Belkin Pre-N card along with the Belkin Pre-N router. If you don't you'll only get the standard 802.11G speed (54 Mbps). The Pre-N designates a few things they did to double the standard 802.11G speed and it actually means the precursor to the 802.11N standard that was just recently ratified by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) Incidentally Belkin now has the N1 wireless line which is compliant with the new 801.11N standard and can get theoretical speeds up to 300 Mbps (almost twice the Pre-N speed).

You can check your speed to the internet at www.speakeasy.net/speedtest. You should check your speed before installing your card (to get a bench mark of your internet speed) and afterwards to make sure it's close to the same or hopefully much better. If you find your speed slows down after installing the Pre-N card, you would want to look at what other wireless networks are operating near you. NetStumbler is a great free program [...] that will not only tell you what wireless networks are operating near you but it will tell you the all important channel they operate on. Ideally you want your wireless network channel to be 4 channels away (if possible) from any other wireless network operating near you. So if you see a wireless network near you (not yours) that is operating on channel 1, then you want to set your wireless network channel to 5 or higher. This of course gets really interesting if you have several wireless networks because 802.11G (Pre-N being an extension of that) only has channels 1 - 11 to use. So you just have to do your best to have your channel as far away as you can from all other wireless channels. Most people don't know about all of this and leave their channel on the default (channel 1) so you might be able to switch to the higher channels without many being there. The other thing that can slow your wireless network (or even cause you to get disconnected) is 2.4 GHz cordless phones. 802.11G (including Pre-N) and the slower older 802.11B standard (which operates at 11 Mbps) use the same 2.4 GHz band. I actually had to get rid of a couple of my 2.4 GHz cordless phones and buy some 900 MHz cordless phones (this was the standard before the 2.4 GHz cordless phones). The 2.4 GHz cordless phones are supposed to check for clear channels but many just go down the list from 1 to 2 to channel 3, etc because it's easier to develop the phones to do that. So when I took a phone call it would kick me off of the wireless network sometimes when my 2.4 GHz cordless phone hit the same channel as my wireless network.


2) Range - The Belkin Pre-N card used in conjunction with the Belkin Pre-N router allows you to be much farther away from the Belkin router without loosing any speed or loosing your connection. Belkin boasts 8 times farther coverage than the standard 802.11G cards (like the one built into your laptop). And from what I've seen this is true. Now it may not sound like you need to be so far away from your router but the thing is, with standard 802.11G, as you get even 50 - 100 feet away from the wireless router (and especially as you add walls between your PC and wireless router) you may start to go down in your speed. The 802.11G wireless cards will start at 54Mbps and go down from there even all the way to 1 Mbps (very slow). I had this problem because I have a 2 story home with basement and my internet wiring is in the basement and therefore my Belkin Pre-N router is in the basement as well. I would then be working all the way on the second story (some 150 feet away) with several walls between my PC and wireless router and watch my wireless speed go down to 11 Mbps with the built in wireless card in my ThinkPad T43. With the Pre-N card in my ThinkPad, I maintain 108 Mbps everywhere I've gone, even outside in the yard. So the range benefit isn't just so you can go a block from your home and get wireless coverage but so that you can maintain a good wireless connection and good speed over it.


3) Security - Belkin Pre-N supports WPA-TKIP, WPA-AES, WEP, and no encryption (clear). It's obviously unwise to have no encryption or clear because anybody nearby can see everything you send over the wireless network be it traffic to other computers, or things you send or receive from the internet (like your emails and website passwords). WEP is not much better and can be broken into when someone just sits in your neighborhood and sniffs less than 1 million of your network packets (usually less than 1 hour). Now having a stranger getting on your wireless network may not sound so bad but really it's like someone plugging in a network cable from their PC directly to yours only that you have no idea they did it and no idea who they are. So in addition to browsing the internet for free on your wireless network they can also try to connect to your PC, steal files from your PC, plant bad programs onto your PC, or watch the traffic you send to the internet from your PC and watch things like the login and password to your bank, etrade, etc go by. Give that some thought before you say you don't care if people connect to your wireless network. Therefore I strongly recommend you use the WPA encryption type and preferably set the Pre-N router to accept only WPA-AES encryption (the hardest to break of all of them). Once you set the Belkin Pre-N router to this, it will only accept connections of this type. You will have to come up with a long key (or key word) but this is one of the reasons why WPA-AES very secure. Along with that I would set it to 802.11G only so that no 802.11B clients (operating at 11Mbps) can connect. Running both bands causes more interference and again slows down your wireless network. I would also recommend you uncheck the box in the Pre-N router configuration that says "Broadcast SSID". By doing this you will NOT broadcast the name of your wireless network and people will not even see it when they browse for wireless networks near them. This is yet another hurdle to someone getting on your wireless network along with the WPA-AES encryption. You will know the name of your wireless network (and you should change this to something only you know as well). When you try to connect, you'll have to manually setup a wireless network in Windows and put the name in manually (not hard at all). Keep in mind only Windows XP supports WPA so if you have any other version of Windows (like Windows 2000) you would have to get special software for it to connect to a wireless WPA network. It's probably worth an upgrade anyway because Windows XP Professional runs quite a bit better than Windows 2000 or the other older versions of Windows. Again you really want to run WPA encryption. Also you'll want to set a good password on your Belkin Pre-N router so people can't connect to it and change all of this secure stuff you've set.

Conclusion: The install of the Belkin Pre-N wireless card works well and is fairly easy. The drivers they have for the card are very good also. The Belkin Pre-N router configuration is all done through a web browser and it works well too (as long as you upgrade the firmware on it to the latest on the Belkin Web site). So all and all I don't really have anything bad to say about the Belkin Pre-N products. They work very well, do what they say they can, and are pretty fast, and trouble free. They are priced well too now especially since the N1 products have come out. So as long as you're O.K with the 108 Mbps speed you should be very happy with it. But if you absolutely want the 300Mbps, then check out the more expensive N1 products that Belkin now has. This would only really matter when you are sending traffic PC to PC in your home and would not make much difference when going to the internet for anything. Remember most home internet connects are 8 Mbps or less anyway and your Pre-N card is at 108 Mbps. So the N1 products may not be worth the extra money unless you do a lot of PC to PC copying or something. But the benefits of Pre-N are definitely worth it if only for the reason that the greater range allows you to stay at full speed even if you're farther away from your wireless router.


"Quick and easy and good", I just bought this card for $40 to use with the Belkin pre-N wireless router I gor from Amazon for $72 earlier this week. I use the card in a Toshiba Satellite laptop. Previously, I had used an all Linksys G setup and range/speed were a big problem if any walls seperated laptop and router. Adding the Belkin pre-N router did away with the speed/range problems and got me up to a "good" connection level and 54 Mbps with the Liksys G card going through three walls. With the pre-N card I am now up to 108 Mbps and "very good" for signal quality. What's not to like for $112 total?

Card set up was easy just following the quick installation instructions. we will see about reliability, but for now I am very satisfied. Will have to watch as the price drops on the pre-N cards to pick up a couple more for our other laptops.

Who needs to pay $200 for an N setup that will be no better?