Re: Belkin Adapters

On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:57:08 GMT, David
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species8350 <not_here.5.species8350@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

Any know problems with the Belkin 54g wireless PCI adapter?

Are ther better buys?

Thanks

I just bought and installed a Netgear USB adaptor in my Windows box
WG111 v3

It was a cinch to install and get working to link with my BigPond Home
Network Gateway for internet access, and then with my Apple iMac for
sharing files

I had tried this with a different brand (I've forgotten the name) and
had lots of problems both in setting it up and in it dropping out all
the time

What speed?

The only adapter I have been able to get full speed out of at 802-11N,
is a D-Link Expresscard which consistently gives me 300 mbps from
anywhere in the house to a Netgear Rangemax Gigabit Edition router. I
never got the equivalent Linksys card to work at all.

This is important when you have networked storage for backup and file
sharing.

None of the USB adapters I tried worked at anything close to the
advertised speed (270 mbps) because of the limitations of USB itself.
They also reduced speed with distance from the router, which the
D-Link expresscard didn't.

I also have a PCI to MCMCIA expansion card in my desktop, so I can use
all the old laptop cards I have lying around - one of which was a
Netgear 802-11N card. Again, for some reason I never got the expected
270 mbps but then this machine normally uses gigglebit wired ethernet
so I wan't too worried.

There seem to be two chipset suppliers and it's not always clear which
you're going to get until you open the box. Both Netgear and D-Link
supply version and version 2 models which are supposed to be the same
as far as the user is concerned.

One seems to operate consistantly at 300 mugglebits. The other at up
to 270, with "up to" being painfully accurate.Weaker antenna reception
and generating a weaker signal.

Which IMO is naughty because they don't tell you.

Poor USB performance is more of a problem because I use a USB dongle
that gets swapped between several old PCs when I need to use them.

So. Netgear is a good way to go if you can use USB - I haven't used
Belkin, but they are expensive

Belkin always struck me as "no name with a label" if you see what I
mean. Cheap connectors, cables and mice at Office Max.

David
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