Belkin F6D6050UK Double N+ Dual Band USB 2.0 Wireless Adaptor
Belkin F6D6050UK Double N+ Dual Band USB 2.0 Wireless Adaptor
List Price: £59.99
Price: £16.45
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List Price: £59.99
Price: £16.45
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Does the job.,
Have read the previous review and had an entirely different experience of this adaptor. The driver software installed first time and off it went. No slowing down, good speeds and its even a little smaller and sexier than my old Belkin adaptor. The only thing which lets it down (like its Double N+ router buddy) is that it cant receive both signals at once… Now that would be worth the money! A little overpriced maybe but does exactly what it says on the box.
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|Blazing fast connection with an appropriate router but not without setup hiccups,
I didn’t buy this product; I was kindly sent it as a replacement to another product which could not be replaced by Belkin Customer Service. I wanted a fast USB N or N+ Wireless adapter to use between two computers which would no longer be using a wired connection to a new and rather excellent Netgear WDR3700 Router. The design of the product is very good indeed. The actual adapter which has a removable protective cap for transportation can slot into a desk stand with about 1m of USB cable. Without checking the specs I was surprised to find (once I got it working) that it supported 5Ghz as well as 2.4Ghz bandwidth alongwith N, N+ and Double N+ connections,luckily my router supports these advanced features. I would say its not worth buying this adapter if you do not have the router functionality to support its speed. Web surfing, downloads and HD media streaming using this adapter is very very fast indeed so if you want to upgrade your WiFi adapter on a desktop or notebook and have a high-end router to support it, this Belkin adapter is probably as good as it gets, having said all that though, I had some major issues getting this product to work with Windows 7 64bit. The product packaging says it supports Windows 7, Belkin do not have dedicated Windows 7 drivers and instead are still using ageing Vista 32/64 bit drivers which do work but for some time my desktop recognised the adapter but could not initiate it. I orginally wrote this product off as good but with bad driver support but I have since updated this review having found the cause – read below…
Updated January 2011
At first I used workaround by enabling a USB “EHCI Handoff” in my BIOS, this is an advanced feature that most computers BIOSes would not have. Although it solved the problem the computer was perioudly unstable and it was the Belkin adapter that seemed to be the cause. I reinstalled what I thought were updated drivers from Belkin’s website but the same initial problems reoccured. In the end I discoverd that my Anti-virus software (Kaspersky) had a feature enabled at the adapter’s driver property page. I simply disabled this and the adapter worked perfectly.
All in all this is an excellent product with drivers that work fine with Windows 7 – it just maybe a bit hit or miss getting it to work out of the box.
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