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Editorial Review:
The DU-520 is a 5-port Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 PCI Adaptor that upgrades desktop computers to the new USB standard. This card is designed to work with mice, keyboards, external CD-R/RW's, external hard drives, webcams, and other USB enabled devices. It is 40 times faster than previous USB Adaptors and 20% faster than Firewire (IEEE-1394). The five USB 2.0 ports can transfer data at 480 Megabits per second, making it ideal for external storage, backup, networking and video devices. The DU-520 is backw...
The DU-520 is a 5-port Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 PCI adapter for upgrading desktop computers to the new USB standard. This card is designed to work with mice, keyboards, external CD-R/RWs, external hard drives, webcams and other USB enabled devices. It is 40 times faster than previous USB adapters. The five USB 2.0 ports can transfer data at 480 Megabits per second, making it ideal for external storage, backup, networking and video devices.The DU-520 is backward compatible with USB 1.0 and USB 1.1 products. This gives you the ability to connect all of your USB 1.x devices to the DU-520 USB 2.0 adapter and they will work. Each port detects whether the connected device is USB 1.x or USB 2.0 and automatically runs the device at the correct speed. Plug-and-Play installation makes the DU-520 easy to install. In addition, because the DU-520 is USB-IF certified, the hardware and drivers meet the rigid demands of these standards.
D-Link DU-520
USB 2.0 PCI Adapter
Driver on CD-ROM
Quick Installation Guide
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Drivers didn't work with XP SP2 Manufacturer's drivers (on included CD) installed OK but XP running SP2 listed card as not working (error 10). Tried uninstalling / reinstalling card and drivers but same error. Ended up assigning XP's own USB2.0 drivers and all seems fine now. No great shakes but a bit annoying :-)
No use for iTunes/iPod Video I bought this adapter to upgrade my Mac G4 1.25GHz desktop in order to to upload songs from iTunes to my 60Gig iPod Video much quicker than the Mac's inbuilt USB 1. As you'd expect, the card is easy to install and it results in much quicker uploads of songs from iTunes to my iPod.
However, after transferring only a handful of songs to my iPod, it causes iTunes to freeze up. I found I could not Force Quit the program (it eventually also crashed the Finder in OS 10.3.9) and had to do a hard reboot, which is... more info
10 out of 10 After a few heart stopping moments, windows xp found it and installed it. Found new hardware and other pop-up messages kept appearing several times giving me those palpitations! Two rear screws to remove, slide off left hand side panel, take out one blanking plate, firmly but carefully push into spare pci slot, retain with screw. I didn't put side panel back on because I was waiting for it all to be working fine, and when it was I connected to the new internal USB port the cable from my front mounted... more info
Quick, hassle-free install This was a really quick, easy install, including the drivers, which were not a problem even on my pretty eldery Win98SE machine. There's one internal USB port included on the card (a Type A socket - not a header), which you could use to connect to a front panel kit: I chose the "Trust 420F 4 PORT USB 2.0 DIRECT ACCESS HUB", also available from Amazon. Not much else to say - it just works!
