Airport or Extreme PCI wireless card

I got 1 working 802.11g capable card, it is recoginzed and usable as airport card.
On this MDD, I wonder what is the speed on this 10M or 54M bits per second.
Do I need airport Extreme software for this card to speed up?
Thanks

Hi, I called Belkin and they said that the card I have is equivalent to the airport extreme card used in the FW800. To even get further support for this claim, I called an Apple technician for a mac repair company and he told me the same thing. So, a PCI wireless 802.11g card is actually an airport extreme card or acts like one.
I am heavily considering going with the 802.11n when it comes out.

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