The pre-n laptop card repeatedly failed on downloading eclipse (90MB).
When i switched to the internal g card the download worked, though half
as fast.

That's not ok.

Anyone have a suggestion for another pre-n kind of product?
How is the linksys?

Two questions:

What is the CPU in your laptop?
Do you have the latest PC Card drivers?

- JB
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JB wrote:
Inspiron 9200 has the 2.1ghz

I emailed belkin a week ago asking where their updated drivers were and
have had no response.

Which processor, P4 or M?
So you have this one:
http://web.belkin.com/support/download/downloaddetails.asp?download=1469&lang=1

JB wrote:

M

How do i find out? It doesn't show up in the properties.

See, in my experience, the laptop really does effect performance. On a
high-end desktop replacement notebook, I've been getting easily 35. But, on
a lowly 2 GHz machine I could never get over 17. I'm not sure why this is -- 
I wish I knew. Same card, same driver, same router, same distance, same
network interference.

One of the fastest ways to know if you have the latest: just grab the latest
and install.

JB wrote:
This machine is 4 times faster than my old desktop so it's hard to think
of it as slow :-) I would hope the card is doing most of the work, but
maybe not. On XP can i figure out where CPU is being spent at the driver
level?

And watch my life melt away in a pool of driver failure?

I'm relaying real-wrold experience -- two laptops, two different results.
One of the laptops is similar to your, but unfortunately, it was the one
that ran at 17.

I use it, works fine for me. Newer drivers cause less driver failure, not
more.

Connecting over 400m. Bridge or Repeater mode?
Wireless-wired-wireless re-radiator
belkin pre-n report
Problems with a Netgear wireless router
Bridge different subnets
Re: Wireless access point problems...
Motorola WR850G as Access Point (not router)
WiFi Bridge
Low or no signal in same room?
belkin F5D6230 redirect port