Belkin F5D6231-4 Wireless Cable/DSL Router
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Customer Review: A Router that leaves you feeling Routed
Summary: 1 Stars
Simply put, this wireless router did not work in my home office enviroment. I bought this model because of the super rebate that Belkin offered. Installation was easy. This particular model of router did not work with my DSL modem and caused temporary outages within my network. I spent over 4 hours with tech support from my DSL provider, Symantec and Belkin. After several tweaks, signal could not be connected consistantly between my DSL modem and my Dell Desktop. Also, my Dell Laptop could not receive the signal transmission from the router. I cannot recommend this Router and I took mine back the store for a refund. I replaced it with a D-Link Wireless Router and it has worked perfectly.Customer Review: Works OK -- but security is crappy at best.
Summary: 2 Stars
1. Blocking SSID broadcast is flaky. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.2. MAC address blocking DOES NOT WORK. You can block a known MAC address, but the whole point is to be able block the unknown ones.
Tried to make this clear to the Belkin tech support drones for about 30 minutes, all in vain. Heavy accents, poor communication skills and utter incompetence. If you can read the manual, you are already far more qualified than those guys. I am not kidding -- I had to read to those guys aloud from the manual before they actually stopped talking nonsence about what MAC filtering is.
No use anyway.
Customer Review: Major compatibility problems
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought two of these routers. I have a D-link DWL-650 laptop 802.11b card, which is one of the most widely used cards on the market. THE ROUTERS DO NOT WORK WITH THESE CARDS. I can establish a connection, and see that the router is there and broadcasting signal, but I cannot get an IP address wirelessly. If I plug in via a wired connection, I immediately get an IP, so I know DHCP is on. I also know my DWL-650 card works b/c I tried it on two other router brands (Linksys and Netgear) with no problem at all. Bottom line: This router is a piece of junk. Save your money and buy something that works.Customer Review: A terrible router overall
Summary: 1 Stars
This router was my 2nd router of 4 in a long history of using Belkin products. I trust their cables & adaptors, so I thought I could trust their wireless products. I was wrong. First off, the web interface doesn't work with Firefox properly, doing nothing when you click buttons, etc. The firmware update(which will never happen it seems) takes forever to tell you there's no new update. I recently switched back to this model after my netgear wireless router failed, and it just wouldn't work. The "connected" light wouldn't come on, nor could I even use a Cat5 connection. Just keep shopping around.Customer Review: MAC Filtering Does Not Work
Summary: 4 Stars
The router seems to have few bugs. The MAC filtering does not work at all. Disallow Broadcast SSID is flakey. I had to check/uncheck bunch oftimes. The router still showed up in the signal scan with its hex id. At least the encryption part worked after the support walked
me through the setup. One of the field needs to be flipped to
"auto" before my laptop was able to connect to router after I turned
on the WEP security.
This is my first wireless router/card experience and I am
reasonably happy with Belkin. 24x7 800 support is life-saver!!