Belkin F5D6231-4 Wireless Cable/DSL Router
by Belkin Components
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Customer Review: My opinion, For the price it is still junk
Summary: 1 Stars
My opinion,I know a lot of people think $80 for a wireless router is cheap, and so it may be, but $80 for a miserably executed piece of equipment is way to much.
First the range of the wireless is almost non-existant. I have three systems hooked to it. Two about 10 to 15 feet from the router. One is on the second floor. I spent about 10 hours positioning the router until I could get a signal on all systems. Yet it still is flaky. Sometimes its fine, sometimes it bounces like a ball.
Every few days the router locks everyone out and you have to unplug it to get it working again. I tried setting it to renew the IP addresses every day but that hasn't helped.
Also it has no URL filtering, they seem to prefer it if you pay them a monthly subsciption for them to do it for you.
If that is not enough, don't expect 11Mbps. I haven't measured the actual bit rate but I know it is much slower to access the other systems on the network (I was using 10Mbps wired), also games will slow and jump (Im talking about games like Age of Empires, which should run fine on 10Mbps).
I have decided just to run some Cat5e cables and go back to being wired.
So $80 for a wired router is not worth it, or at least not for this one.
Sorry, but I was completely disappointed by this equipment.
Customer Review: Never will buy Belkin again
Summary: 1 Stars
I have had this router for a few years now. Where should I start? Well, let talk about the web-based interface. It is so buggy that it does not work with Firefox. It only seems to work for Internet Explorer 6 and 7, because it seems to tolerate broken Javascript. I would use IE if I had it, but I am a Linux user, so none of the standards-based browsers that I have will not work at all.
I actually found were the bug was, but I can't do anything about. This leads to the second issue of support. I sent the issue to Belkin support, but there was never a response. Checking their support site, there is no firmware updates for this. None at all.
So, here's the scoop on what I cannot do. I cannot set any WEP keys, because buttons you need to use to apply the settings silently fail. Therefore, I cannot have a secure wireless, which makes this router useless to me.
I am sure that the newer products have better support, but I think I will spend my money on a Linksys WRT54G.
Customer Review: It works, but has issues...
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm not normally one to write reviews, but I want to prevent others from buying this if it will not work for them. I have previously been a sysadmin, so I'm somewhat fluent with network compnents and configurations. As a wireless access point, its fine, good range, good speed, etc. As a NAT router, again it works just fine for browsing. However, it has serious issues maintaining connections, either through the wireless side or the wired side, with game servers. Simply put, games will continually "lose the connection" to the server, and drop you from the game. This happened no matter what configurations and/or firmware versions I tried. I ended up using my Linksys router as a router, with the Belkin as a wireless access point and hub. This also reduces it to a 3 port hub, since you need to use a standard port for the connection to the router.Long story short, it works for everything but games. If you never game, then its good for the money. Gamers look elsewhere. I would recommend Linksys.
Customer Review: This thing is junk, save yourself the trouble
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this because it was cheap and I just wanted to use it as an extra network switch, and possibly an access point later. First thing I wanted to do was change the IP address so it coincided with the rest of my network. By doing this the router gets confused and changes to a random IP. It still works with the settings you had in it before changing the IP but you can't connect to it to configure anything else. If you try to use the "Access Point Only" mode, that doesn't work either and the router stops working altogether. In both situations you have to reset it to factory defaults and start all over. Belkin has no fix for this problem, I called them. Their solution was unacceptable and here we are a couple years after I bought this thing and they still haven't fixed it. Buy Belkin cables, stay away from all their electronics with firmware and/or software, they don't support them very well.
Customer Review: Don't waste your money
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this product about amonth ago. It does work but only if I stay within 10 feet of the base station. I have usb cables that let me get futher away. I have spent countless hours on the phone with their technical support. Everytime they gave me the same suggestions. Do you have any 2.4 ghz wireless phones? No. Ohh?? Did you change the channel? yes. Ohh? Try turning your computer off then back on. Ok. Did that work? No. Let me elevate the call. Then I got the same none solution anwsers from the next guy. I recomend researching your wireless product well. If it gets lesss than a 70% positive feedback from at least 100 people run. If they support it for 30 days run. I ended up buying a DLINK |DI-624 2.4GHz it cost around the and it works. I can go anywhere in my house and it works (so around 150ft from base that is as far as I have tried).
Douglas