Belkin Belkin USB 2.0 Hi-Speed 5-Port PCI Card |
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Belkin Components
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Belkin
EAN: 0722868601754
Label: Belkin Components
Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers.
Manufacturer: Belkin Components
Model: F5U220VEA1
Platform: Windows
Publisher: Belkin Components
Release Date: 2007-08-12
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Product Description
Belkin's Hi-Speed USB 2.0 card is here bringing with it astounding 480Mbps speed to USB connectivity. With a bandwidth 40 times greater than 1.1 it is the ideal interface for transferring extremely large amounts of data from USB 2.0 compliant products such as real time video cameras, scanners, portable drives and others. Belkin's Hi-Speed USB 2.0 5-Port PCI card gives your computer the highest USB speeds available today.Main Features:Belkin USB 2.0 Hi-speed 5-port PCI CardAdds 5 USB 2.0 hi-speed ports to yo...
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Upgrade USB, 2008-12-14
I bought this because my PC is using a fairly old motherboard (Asus M2V)and as a consequence the installed USB ports are using rather ancient technology. Therefore, I was hoping the new tech in this card would improve data transfer for my TV dongle and marginally improve my mobile dongle's download speed.
As a digression: mobile dongles are only usuable by buying a download accelerator (a investment of £36 is recommended from speedbit).
This USB pci card has certainly delivered measurable improvements in TV picture quality and a bigger than expected speed improvement in internet surfing.
At £13, it is extremely good value for money from a recogniseable brand name; a definite bargin!
Note: the 5th USB port is actually inside the computer.
 USB2 problems..., 2008-12-18
I dont think the problem Im having is specific to this belkin card. I have installed it correctly and it accepts connections from devices however I have seen NO speed improvements over USB1. I have the latest service pack for windows, latest drivers for the card. I have checked compatibility between my motherboard and this card, checked the power supply compatibilty, everything I can think of.
So Im posting this here in case anyone has any ideas. I have given the product 4 stars because I dont think this hardware is the issue.
Just the Best, 2008-06-21
Card arrived by 1st class post in 36 hours. My PC is a 9 year old MESH machine with a 500 Mhz AMD K6 processor, so not exactly the latest! I run it under XP SP2. The card installed physically with only a minor seating problem which was solved by slightly bending the tab opposite the fixing screw so as to get the slot on the edge connector to match the key in the mother board connector. Powered up the PC and just left XP to get on with it. Installed in a few minutes. No need to use the enclosed CD as XP has the drivers. Swapped over several USB peripherals including an external hard drive with no problems at all and the whole machine is significantly faster. You get what you pay for. Forget the problems with £1.50 boards and get a Belkin.
Works as Advertised, 2008-05-13
Rapidly running out of USB ports on my new PC what with webcam, printer, camera, RS232 converter, Axim cradle etc etc etc - not to mention the ports used for keyboard and mouse these days. Why don't PC/motherboard manufacturers provide more USB ports as standard?
Anyway, bought two of these peaches to fill my Dell's remaining PCI slots. Just plug in and amazingly, shock-horror, here is some hardware that actually works immediately with Vista, and no need to install extra drivers.
All working well - and delivery was less than two days, despite going for the cheapest option. All round good value!
Faultless, 2008-11-01
My aging Abit KX7-333R motherboard only has USB1.1 ports on, and having purchased an external HD I figured I should get a PCI USB2 card to connect it to.
The Belkin card fitted into a spare PCI slot easily, WinXP recognised it and installed the drivers for it, and that was that! Since then I've not had a single problem with it. I've connected three USB2 devices to it at the same time and copying and moving files from them all worked just fine. I've had no crashing or system instability with the card, and all in all I have found it to be faultless.
If you need a USB2 card for your computer you could go for a cheap one, but why bother when this one is only marginally more expensive and works so well?
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