Mac Forum / General / Hardware / July 2007

it seems to be a standard PCI bus card and, as such, will work in most
Wintel PC's as well as Macs with PCI slots. I looked up the model number
on the Belkin website and came up with the following info;

http://www.belkin.com/support/product/?lid=en&pid=F5U006-UNV&scid=1

That wasn't very enlightening so I looked further and found this;

http://www.superwarehouse.com/Belkin_Quadrabus_4-Port_USB_HUB,_PCI/F5U006-UNV/p/36598

which told me that it was USB 1.1 and, as such, isn't a very useful card
in this day and age. All USB ports these days are USB 2.0. Your card has
a maximum speed of 12 Mbps at each port whereas USB 2.0 ports are 480
Mbps. Quite a difference. I have a number of cards laying around here,
some USB 1.1 and some USB 2.0 and a few combo cards with USB 2.0 AND
Firewire. Since my main need for USB ports is to attach peripherals such
as external hard disk caddies, I need the speed. I would think that most
other people here are the same. My USB 1.1 cards are in a box,
eventually they will be tossed out.

Another piece of information you may find pertinent is that your card is
NOT SUPPORTED by OSX in any form. Windows based computers will have
inbuilt drivers for it.

As for its value, I feel that the postage costs will exceed the the
price you may get for the card on Ebay. As I said, my cards are in a box
and will be tossed out eventually. I would not consider selling them
preferring to give them to friends or fit them into computers that need
one for mouse/keyboard attachment.

So, the answer to the last part of your post is that you would need to
state that the card is USB 1.1 and that it isn't supported by OSX.

Xeno