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50 feet away in my home office it gets no signal at all. Over the years I have had several wireless notebook cards. Don't buy the N1 wireless notebook card, the pre-N is a much better device. My older pre-N notebook card gets a very good signal in my office so this the one I use even though it can't take advantage of full N1 connection speeds. The Belkin N1 card is the worst I have ever had. With my laptop on my lap in the living room about 15 feet from my Belkin N1 wireless router it gets only a fair signal and can't connect at full speed.
I tried the drivers for both, neither got me up to the speed my Linksys WUSB300N gets. The installation was a snap. I have received an RMA to return it.BTW, customer support is pathetic, they just didn't get it when I called I had wanted something smaller which fit the express slot, but this is not the one. But when I was done, the adapter would connect to an existing N network at only the slower 54 Mbps Wireless G speed.There is some confusion as to what model I have as well. One sticker says N, one says N1.
The N1 will not uninstall and Belkin customer service cannot fix the problem without an engineer going into the System Registry on my computer. The product should never have been released. This product has major bugs and Belkin knows it. I've spent hours on this and am worse off than before the "upgrade." Belkin indicated it would be 2 days before an engineer can call me back to attempt a work around so the card can be uninstalled without crashing my wireless network. STAY AWAY. If you are upgrading from another card or Belkin product, it will not work. An attempted upgrade from a Belkin Pre-N card cut my throughput in half (from 108mbps to 54).
I could never get the card to work or connect to a well-established home wireless network. He concluded that the fault lie with this Belkin wireless notebook card. I highly suggest, no matter how good of deal this card may seem, go with some other brand of wireless notebook card and save yourself many hours of frustration and pointless calls to numerous tech-support services. It didn't last long though.
They were a very typical tech support, and pass the buck on to my Internet provider. It was very frustrating, to say the least. I got this notebook card on a good sale and thought myself very fortunate, but nothing could have been further from the truth. The first computer that I try to use this card in was a five-year-old Toshiba laptop running Windows XP. I think called Belkin Tech support back and explain to them the conclusions that my Internet service provider had come to. I called blinking tech-support back a third time, of course this was after a three-day weekend, and after an hour and 15 minutes of changing settings on my computer and my wireless router, we finally got the card working.
It would see that the wireless network was there, and it would ask for a WEP key but it would never connect. It worked for about a week and then one morning, when the computer was booted up the router would never connect again. I gave my brother-in-law a chance to try to get it to work. I tried installing the card in a brand-new Toshiba Qosmio. The Blinking tech-support I spoke to promptly blamed the problem on my wireless router. After over 10 hours of work and contacting tech support for many companies, including Verizon, Linksys and Belkin he gave up. After about four hours of trying to get this card to work, I finally gave up and called the Belkin Tech support.
I personally spent about six hours tinkering with the card and speaking with Belkin tech-support before I finally got fed up and gave the card up for a loss. I've then called up my wireless router tech support and after about 45 minutes of troubleshooting, they concluded that the router was working flawlessly. After an hour of working with my Internet provider's tech support. Not wanting to argue the point.
In this case "N1" stands for "not this one." It does not deliver. Range is so low do not bother.
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