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Network Standards: IEEE 802.11b , IEEE 802.11g
Operating Range (Feet/Meters): 1,000 ft. (305m)*
Security: WPA, WPA2, 64-bit/128-bit encryption
Specifications Interface: USB 1.0, 1.1, 2.0
* Products were tested in an outdoor environment. Actual speed
and distance will vary depending on interference, network traffi c,
building materials, and other conditions.
Features:
* Up to 1000 ft. of wireless range
Belkin G Plus MIMO delivers the industry's best wireless coverage, extending your range with improved reliability and fewer drops
* 10x the wireless speed
10 times faster than 802.11b and double the speed of 802.11g
* Guaranteed interoperability
G Plus MIMO is Wi-FiŽ certified and seamlessly interoperates with a mixture of Belkin's G Plus MIMO, Pre-N, and legacy 802.11b/802.11g devices
* Improves performance of legacy 802.11g and 802.11b networking devices
In mixed networking environments, Belkin G Plus MIMO products increase 802.11g and 802.11b performance up to 10%
* Wi-Fi certified for secure network connection
Offers backward-compatibility with all 802.11b network devices
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $60.00 | Rating: 9
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.23.9-85.fc8
Distribution:
Fedora 8
I wanted to get another wifi adaper because I couldn't get WPA working with the integrated Realtek in my laptop (rtl8187b). Found this one in PCWorld using trial and error. The sales guy let me try all the USB adapters they had on my laptop, they had no ExpressCards on their shelf yet. Tried a D-Link, Linksys, Netgear and two other Belkin ones; one of which worked but didn't have WPA encryption capabilities.
As soon as you plug it in the modules are loaded, you don't see it in the network config GUI but "ifconfig -a" reveals that a new wireless adapter is present. All that's left to do is use wpa_supplicant then dhclient to get an IP address and you're off.
It's in a blue and white box (in Europe anyways).
I've since also tried it on Ubuntu 7.10 but it wasn't detected, I didn't get a chance to troubleshoot.
Here's the part of my lsmod relating to the adapter on Fedora 8:
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.23.15-137.fc8
Distribution:
Fedora 8
The latest kernel update on Feodra 8 to 2.6.24.3-12.fc8 has caused some issues with this adapter. It still gets recognized when you plug it in but bringing the adapter up using "ifconfig wlan0 up" freezes the whole OS completely with no possibility of recovery.
I've reverted back to 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 and I guess I'll manually remove the new kernel as to keep receiving the updated ones to test them without 2.6.23 getting automatically erased.
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