Posts Tagged ‘belkin’
I recently obtained a hard driveless, nicless pc. (Also, no power cables or anything). I needed a NIC for it (as its original was removed). I found this NIC and it was a good price ($0.97). I accidently ordered two, but the price was so low I didn’t notice.
Installation was easy, just put it in the PCI slot and put the screw back. Debian (Lenny – Testing) found it immediately like Linux does with most hardware and it worked fine.
Belkin F5D5000 32 Bit
I’ve had this card for about 6 months now and have had nothing but trouble. The card installed fine, drivers work, but the quality of my connection is terrible. I should actually say the reliability is terrible. I get 5 bars quality from the windows wireless configuration tool, but the connection disconnects randomly. Some days are better than others, where I remain connected to my BELKIN router and I just get ping timeouts every few minutes. This makes it very hard to play most games like normal people. I am always at a disadvantage. I’ve tried using the Belkin tool to connect, while disabling the windows configurator with no success. My laptop with a Broadcom adapter gets flawless wireless access with the router as well as another desktop on my network that uses a netgear adapter. The bottom line is, if you use your computer for anything other than checking your email, get a card that actually works.
Belkin F5D7000 Wireless Desktop
This is the second one of these guys I picked up. The other was by an even more generic brand than Belkin.
Uses the Realtek chipset, so the parts are made by a good name in ICs.
I purchase a ton of these usb wireless sticks to grab updates on machines when there are no lan-patches available, so you can trust me when i say it works fine for the price. People who are having problems with these adapters are really having problems with their networks.
Also, these only work on 32 bit versions of windows as far as I know. Although, I would not be surprised if you could find a Realtek driver that fixes that issue.
CHEERS.
I joined a FAcebook Book Club and this was the first book I read as a resultof joining. It wasn’t one I would have chosen if I had just read the synopsis of the story, but I decided to give it a try. Actually, I was pleasantly surprised. Once I got into the book I really enjoyed it. The setting in the south and the types of characters were unfamiliar to me which made the book very interesting. The perspective from which it was told gave me an insight into the lives of teh characters and made them very believable. I would highly recommend this book.
Belkin Wireless G Notebook
I switched from SBC to Comcast internet and had issues making more than 1 Mac computer work at a time with the Comcast cable modem and a time capsule. I purchased one of these routers and within 15 minutes had two laptops, my imac and a network printer up and running perfectly. The router and install CD are Mac OS friendly and the wireless feature/security works very well. Using OS 10.5, Imac/intel, macbook pro and ibook. Excllent value for the price.
Belkin N Wireless Router