| Belkin Wireless G Notebook Card F5D7010 - Network adapter - CardBus - 802.11g |
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Model: F5D7010UK
Brand: Belkin
Manufacturer: Belkin Components
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Total Reviews: 1
Platforms: Windows
Form factor: Plug-in module
Hardware platform: PC
Data link protocol: IEEE 802.11g
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| Description: |
| Belkin networking presents its latest innovation, the 54g Wireless Notebook Network Card. The Card works as an ideal standalone to give you instant networking capabilities. It features breakthrough 54g technology that makes wireless file transfers and downloads faster than ever before. 54g technology provides you with networking speeds nearly five times faster than the current Wi-Fi (802.11b) standard. The Card sets up with the ease and the simplicity of Plug-and-Play technology on any laptop equipped with a 32-bit CardBus slot. It slides into the 32-bit CardBus slot to enable a wireless connection to your network. 54g technology is the easiest wireless network to implement. The Card uses the wireless 54g 2.4GHz standard to offer you the widest working range - up to 1500 feet -and greater interoperability in mixed networking environments. 54g technology is backward-compatible with the 802.11b Wi-Fi networking standard, so it allows you to implement faster wireless technologies in combination with existing 802.11b Wi-Fi networks. PRODUCT FEATURES:Adds 54g wireless capabilities to laptop computers, for faster wireless networking available for home or office;Fits any standard 32-bit CardBus slot;Provides 3 times the wireless range of 802.11a clients;Offers backward-compatibility with the 802.11b Wi-Fi networking standard;Features wireless 64- and 128-bit WEP encryption;Allows you to use Turbo Mode and network at 54Mbps, the highest data rate for all 54g clients Keeps notebook batteries running longer with advanced, low-power consumption chipset. |
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Product didn't work. Phone Support New Form of Torture. Stay Away from Belkin!, January 26, 2007
By user
When i tried to install the Wireless G Network Card my computer kept freezing in the middle of the set-up process. I talked to phone support and he said the card was defective and they would send me a replacement. So he transfers me to another guy who I have to again explain everything to, and he's about to transfer me to yet another department, but he hangs up on me instead.
So, I call back right away, and I'm told that there is now a 15 minute wait. That's funny because minutes before when I called I got through immediately...
While I'm on hold I am forced to listen to an especially annoying segment of some classical music which has been spliced into a very short loop which keeps repeating over and over and over again. The music loop is extremely loud, shrill and with plenty of distortion. It's a classical french horn section that keeps building toward some crescendo and conclusion, but instead of ever reaching the conclusion it just keeps building and repeating, building and repeating. It's really amazing what they've done here. It's basically an auditory version of pepper spray. I feel sure that they've done this to discourage people from staying on the phone.
I turn my phone volume down to its lowest setting and wait. Even on it's lowest setting these annoying classical horns keep blaring the same short section over and over again, just taunting me to give in and hang up.
Finally, 32 MINUTES LATER, someone comes on the line to take my case number again and ask me to explain everything for the third time. The first thing I do is ask him to call me back if we get disconnected. He tells me that he is not authorized to do that. I ask him why the first guy had taken my phone number if he was not allowed to call me? He mumbled something about "someone might eventually call me".
After he figures out what's going on he tells me that I will be contacted the next day by the technical department and told what to do next. I tell him that I've already spoken to three people, one of them was the technical department, and they've told me that I will be sent a replacement for the defective part. I told him that I've already given my name, phone number and postal address, so why not just send me the replacement? Why do I have to spend more time talking to more people??? Again, he was not authorized to do that. Nothing he could do.
My conclusion is that these guys are deliberately trying to frustrate me and get me to give up on getting my replacement part.
I've read other bad reviews about this company. I wished I'd listened. Maybe I'll get a replacement, maybe I won't. Maybe I'll spend the evening writing bad reviews of this product on every web page I can find!
best of luck to you, whoever you are (and you can increase you're luck by avoiding Belkin).
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