Belkin wireless 802.11g card any good?

[delmore]

I can two Belkin FD57000 54g Wireless Desktop Network Card for $60 less some coupons which will bring each card to ~$45.

Would you trust Belkin for wireless?

See:

http://www.staples.com/Catalog/Browse/Sku.asp?PageType=1&Sku=504000

I'm not sure if they can be upgraded when the 802.11g draft becomes offical.

[Aristo]

I would rather pay extra for Netgear or Linksys. But if your budget is very tight, guess there isn't many choices left. :)

[Joshua]

Netgear's G card won't be out until mid april and the reviews I've read on Linksys' G card aren't good. It looks like it has issues with backwards compatibility with B cards.

If you're only going to use the G cards you should be ok.

I think all of them will be straightened out once the G standard becomes official. They'll prolly all come out with firmware updates for the cards to bring them up to spec.

[Aristo]

If you are running ONLY 802.11G, then it shouldn't be any problem. The problem occurs when you try to run 802.11B via 802.11G card and that's why I picked up 802.11B last month. It's a heck lot cheaper than G format and has been accepted almost everywhere there is a wireless internet such as StarBucks. Personally, I don't put too many hopes on the firmware update because those 802.11G cards were produced before it is standardized. I would feel much more comfortable once it is offical and the cards produced afterward. But if you must have 11G now, I would get LinkSys which has more frequent firmware update.