Product Description

Belkin HiSpeed USB 20 5Port PCI Card F5U220VEA1 Networks Network Adapters

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1880 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Belkin
• Model: F5U220VEA1
• Released on: 2007-08-12
• Platform: Windows
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .71 pounds

Features

• Belkin USB 2.0 Hi-speed 5-port PCI Card
• Adds 5 USB 2.0 hi-speed ports to your computer 4
• Backwards compatible with USB 1.1 devices
• 480Mbps data speed
• Supports up to 127 Hi-Speed devices and 254 Full

Manufacturer's 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.

Customer Reviews

Just the Best
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.

Faultless
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?

Works as Advertised
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!