BELKIN F5D8073 N Wireless ExpressCard Adapter

Pros: A small footprint, snugged into express slot nicely, pretty blue light matched laptop

Cons: Never worked in Win7 64-bit.

Other Thoughts: Tried Belkin and the chipset maker's drivers and neither seemed to do the trick even though they installed successfully. Win7 sees the device but doesn't actually seem to assign it the drivers properly. It is actually listed as a device in the Network Sharing Center but it is disabled and will not enable no matter what I try. Nothing online helped, Belkin support is something awful. It isn't Win7 compatible officially, so I have sent it back and will try the Linksys wec600n which is Win7 compatible officially.

Pros: works great on my belkin wireless n network. Im using an old hp pavilion xt345 and i can download @ 1mb per sec avg.

Cons: none

Pros: It's an N card.

Cons: Range on this thing bites at best. I can understand getting less range with a card but, when your sitting in the same room with your N router I would have expected better than 2 bars for signal strength. Also good luck to you at getting this card to connect at 300.

Other Thoughts: My built in 54g card beats this thing in range hands down.

Pros: There really isnt any pros to it other than that it runs through "N" signal.

Cons: Doesn't stay in connection spot very well and slight hitting will nock it out of place and turn it off.
The signal pick up range isnt any better than the Wireless built into my Asus G50xt laptop.

Other Thoughts: Overall the product isnt really worth buying, but if you do get it atleast you will have the latest in wireless transfering with two ways instead of one.

Pros: This card was a dissapointment at first, either it was Windows XP, the driver, or my router that was crudding everything up, but I never got it to be stable on either a G network or N network.

Initially the drivers were *beta*, so that was the likely reason the thing was hanging intermittently.

So I gave up and I put it in a drawer for about 6 months.

Recently upgraded my old laptop to Windows 7 and got a new N router to boot. Decided to see if the card would work and it does, its connected at 300Mbps so its doing what its supposed to do.

There were no issues setting up either. Downloaded the drivers, installed them, connected through WPA2/AES, and checked windows networking properties, its connected at 300Mbps, actual throughput is around 75Mbps. Easy. No hangs whatsoever, just watched National Lampoons Vacation on Netflix, not a single pause.

My current setup is very low latency, fast, is working great, and I'm glad I have this gd card at the moment.

Cons: I wouldn't try to make it work with anything but a Ralink chipped router, and wouldn't try to install the drivers on anything but Windows 7.

Other Thoughts: I have the Encore ENHWI-N2 wireless N router as well, it is super fabulous and only costs $35, highly recommended.

You must connect the Belkin N-Card through WPA2/AES to get a 300Mbps connection (actual throughput 75Mbps). So get a router that supports that security spec.

Pros: when it worked it was decent.

Cons: after a restart it never worked again, same problem with the second one, no more belkin in my home.

Other Thoughts: if you purchase and install, never restart your pc or unplug the card, it becomes undetectable, and belkin didnt even answer my help request email.

Pros: This ExpressCard adaptor took little time to install and has worked well so far. Came with driver on CD and install software worked fine. Has pretty blue led light on the black antennae which matches my black laptop.

Cons: My HP laptop has a slot big enough for the L shaped ExpressCards, and this Belkin adaptor fits OK, but I am not happy about the way it retains this card. It takes almost no force to pull it out, and this worries me. I may end up duct taping it, to secure it better. Not sure who is to blame here, HP, Belkin, or the folks who made the ExpressCard standard.

Other Thoughts: I bought this card to extend the life of my laptop, an HP dv9205us, which had a known issue, a defect which leads to motherboard failure of the built-in wireless controller port. HP refused to fix it, because mine failed two months beyond the arbitrary cut-off date for servicing these computers. I tried a different internal card first of course, but no joy. At least this card gets me back on the internet wirelessly again. I would give it five stars if it was retained in the slot more securely.

Pros: Easy to install, fast connection when inserted

Cons: No hard case to store it in when not in use.

Pros: Works right out the box. Installed the drivers like the instructions said and away I went. This card works great with my Dell Inspiron 1501 notebook.

Cons: The card works with the Belkin software, but the utility kept saying my router wasn't picking up the Internet for some reason. I could get on-line though. I switched to Microsoft's wireless software and everything is working fine still. I just don't have that annoying Belking program telling me it's not connecting to the Net, even thought it was.

Other Thoughts: I bought this to replace the cr@ppy wireless WLAN card from my Dell Inspiron 1501 notebook. Dell sent me a refurbished WLAN card to see if that fix the problem and it still didn't work. I wanted something to load up fast after a complete format of a hard drive and not worry about what order of drivers to load. I sometimes wonder about Dell and their products.

Pros: Vista drivers are available directly from Ralink, the chipset maker. This card uses the Ralink 2860 chipset and you can get non-beta drivers from ralinktech.com.

Cons: None so far.