Belkin F5D7132 Wireless-G Universal Range Extender
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Customer Review: It works great! some may need to follow Leo Piyush's directions.
Summary: 5 Stars
Living in a four bedroom apartment where all the rooms are next to eachother in a receding order, it can get pretty frustrating to see your roommates get better signals than you. Such was my case for the past month until I got this.
It does work right off the bat (like after it searches and locates your wireless router), but you still may be getting a weak signal because your SSID's for your wireless router and the range extender are the same (which it should be if you used the autoconnect button on the back of the range extender). And that would mean your computer/laptop may still be utilizing your wireless router rather than your range extender. For that, I suggest you follow Leo Piyush's directions which can be found in one of the reviews here.
Anyways, its a great product and I would totally recommend it to anyone looking for a solution to weak signals from their wireless router.
Customer Review: was not as hard as I thought it would be.
Summary: 5 Stars
thanks to L. Friedersdorf review and instructions the set up was simple. I got this around 2pm on saturday. THANK YOU PRIME! and got it set up and ready around 2:20. This was with a secure network. I followed the instructions left by L. Friedersdorf and it worked really well. My Computer has gone from 2 bars to 5 bars. my 360 has gone from zero bars to 3 bars and my Tivo has gone from 35% to 70%. This was after trying about 6 other solutions. I have tried The directional Antenna and omnidirectional antenna. Wireless access points. Better routers. Moving my room around and Nothing worked. The wireless router is One other side of the house on the main floor. and I am on the second floor in the basement with lots of Thick walls and everything. So this was the perfect solution for me. I have a Netgear wireless routher that was standard from Charter Cable so I was impressed I didnt have any trouble.Customer Review: Easy Set up, and works great
Summary: 5 Stars
I have the Belkin Pre-N wireless router and now this Belkin Wireless G range extender in my home. Set up was very easy using the WEB BASED set up in windows XP. The IP address of this router is 192.168.2.254 when trying to access the online settings. I configured it in repeater mode, using my WPA-PSK settings from my Pre-N router and it connected with no problems. Once configured, you can use the back ethernet port to connect a DVR, Xbox, whatever you desire. From opening the box to plugging it into my Dish DVR, 20 minutes. I tested it on my Xbox 360 and it works great. So if you don't want to by Microsoft's adapter, this is a cheap alternative. I also tested the range outside, and the box says 400ft, but it's about 250-300ft in my area since there are soo many other networks around. Overall, great product, no issues. I received ver.2000 and the updated firmware.Customer Review: Works great - easy to set up if you know what you're doing
Summary: 5 Stars
And it might even be easy to set up if you *don't* know what you're doing. If you run into trouble setting this up and you don't know the difference between a bridge, access point and router you may get stuck. That said, this product does exactly what it's supposed to do and does it well.
I have it configured as a bridge. I have a home office with an Ethernet network and an old Linksys 802.11b router. In another room ~30 feet away I have a PlayStation, PC and a satellite DVR receiver hooked up to a 10/100 hub. I plugged the Belkin F5D7132 into this hub, configured it with an IP address on my network and that's it. Now the PlayStation, computer and DVR in that room have access to the Internet through the Linksys.
Disclaimer: I'm a software engineer with extensive networking experience. Your mileage may vary when it comes to ease of setup.
Customer Review: Great Product !! Full Strength Signal !!
Summary: 5 Stars
Hi, I had my doubts at first that this device would actually work and increase my wireless range, boy was I wrong. I could barely get a signal in some parts of my house, but now I have a full strength signal! The push button setup works great as long as you do not have WEP enabled on your router. I of course do use WEP security so I was forced to use the software and had to configure the Range Extender with the software provided. I did need to call Belkin tech support to complete the installation, but they were very helpfull and were able to get the Range Extender up and running in no time at all. If you do not have WEP enabled the one-step instant setup button works fine.I highly recommend this product and believe you will agree that it does what is is intended to do. I hope you found this review usefull.