Belkin F5D8073 N, Seems to go to sleep a..
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Seems to go to sleep a lot…
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?
Update (2/8/2012): I also found some auctions for this item here.
The featured review for this product, Belkin F5D8073 N Wireless ExpressCard Adapter Electronics, was written by airfirehorse.
The average rating for this item is out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.
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Tags: express card device not up to speed, expresscard, n wireless, wi fi, wireless n
Posted on: June 24, 2010
Filed under: Reviews
Reviews (3)
airfirehorse
May 10th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Seems to go to sleep a lot…
Rated 2 stars.
Robert
May 28th, 2010 at 8:27 am
It doesn’t do what it says it does
The installation is a breeze. The set up disc is spot on.
But, once the device was installed and working, it only ran at 54Mbps, or 802.11(g)speed. No improvement over the internal card in my HP Laptop.
BTW, I have a USB N adapter from Linksys that works at 270Mbps, so the network is at N speeds. The Linksys adapter is not as easy on the eyes, as the Express card, so that’s why I bought it.
I am waiting for an RMA as I write this.
saturnotaku
June 6th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Works well, just don’t turn to Belkin for setup/support
Despite the negative reviews surrounding this product, I went ahead and purchased it anyway. My wife has an HP DV6100 laptop running 32-bit Vista Basic. The system’s integrated wireless failed due to a known motherboard defect. As her system was well out of warranty when the failure occurred, I was willing to take a chance on this product. There aren’t very many ExpressCard wireless adapters on the market, and the DV6100 only has 2 USB ports. This was much less expensive than purchasing a whole new notebook.
The key to making this product work is to neither use the included installation CD nor install drivers provided by Belkin. Instead, use the reference drivers from this card’s chipset maker, Ralink. Go to Ralink’s web site and navigate to the support section. For Windows users, select that section, and download the software for part number RT2860. The package includes drivers for XP and Vista.
Before you insert the card into your notebook, install the drivers you downloaded from Ralink. During setup, it will give you an option to install only the drivers or the drivers plus Ralink connection software. Choose the former, and let setup complete. Now plug the card into your computer, and Windows should automatically detect it. Once the hardware installation wizard completes, you should be able to use Windows’ built-in wireless configuration utility to connect to your network.
This procedure worked flawlessly on my wife’s system, and she’s back online, connected at full speed to our wireless-g network. As long as the hardware holds up, and you follow the above instructions for setting it up, I have no qualms about recommending this adapter to anyone.
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