Belkin F5D6231-4 Wireless Cable/DSL Router

Average customer rating: 3.0

Stable, but featureless
Terrible
This thing is junk, save yourself the trouble
Just Toss It In The Junk Bin
Yup, it sux

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Belkin F5D6231-4 Wireless Cable/DSL Router

Manufacturer: Belkin Components
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B00008IHQO

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Product Description

Belkin wireless networking provides the perfect solution for the most advanced, cable-free installations. Belkin Wireless Cable/DSL Gateway Router (Router) uses the 802.11b wireless Ethernet standard to let you share a broadband Internet connection among your computers - without cables. The Router features an integrated 4-port 10/100BaseT Ethernet switch that allows you to connect wired computers for all the advantages of networking. It makes sharing files and peripherals, such as hard drives, printers, CD-ROMs, DVDs and more easier than ever. The Router offers advanced features for the highest level of flexibility. Using its firewall, the Router protects your network from outside intrusions by hackers. Its IPSec pass-through allows you to work from another location using Virtual Private Networking (VPN). DMZ hosting lets you play accelerated games over the Internet.

Customer Reviews:

Stable, but featureless.......2006-07-24

The router is quite stable, at least compared to my Linksys router. I have never had to reset the Belkin, but with its great stabability comes its own problems. There is no way to disable wireless internet access, and for someone who doesn't use the feature, its just another security risk. Along with this, the setup page is only usable through Internet Explorer. Being a windows user this is not a major drawback, but for any linux user this can be quite a problem. The setup pages are also somewhat complex, requiring multiple page navigations to reach a single option. However, despite these drawbacks, the router has excellent logging capabilites that are far better than my Linksys. Overall the F5D6231-4 is a decent router and I recommend it to any wireless windows customers.

Terrible.......2006-07-18

I'm on my third router. And after a year the range seems to have dropped and i need to switch on and off several tomes a day.

Garbage, support is terrible.

Avoid

This thing is junk, save yourself the trouble.......2005-12-27

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.

Just Toss It In The Junk Bin.......2005-10-03

Does not work - no real software - a waste of your time. Good only for target practice. I wish we could give negative stars for a piece of dreck like this.

Yup, it sux.......2005-04-21

You can get Belkin stuff real cheap (...), but is your time worth it? Do you really want to be (...) around with networking problems? You'll be spending lots of frustrating time with it. I have, and I'm a computer professional. Belkin has not figured out that good software is important, consequently it's a mess. Reduce your pain. Forget Belkin, and Netgear.

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