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Belkin BELKIN F5D7231-4 High-Speed Mode 802.11g Router

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  • BELKIN F5D7231-4 High-Speed Mode 802.11g Router

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User Reviews for Belkin BELKIN F5D7231-4 High-Speed Mode 802.11g Router

  • Reviewed by: josh65

    Duration of ownership: 24 Months

    Strengths: OK for use in small house and for limited use of wireless network when there are no 2.45GH phones at home or around.

    Weaknesses: Losing signal when there are 2.45GH phone rings and when other wifi signal detected. No good for VPN or media transfer. I'm with Belkin tech support for the last 2 years and replaced 2 routers, eventually they have admitted that Belkin does not have any wifi router for Media xfer use or high traffic use.

    Overall Evaluation: Good support with life time warranty but bad product and fail to deliver the reliability. Poor and not stable GUI.

  • Reviewed by: marcin12

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Better signal than my other routers, good performance sometimes, easy to setup

    Weaknesses: Doesn't work with bittorent programs, slows down sometimes,

    Overall Evaluation: The wireless signal is not bad I owned Linksys wrt54gs and this router has stronger signal than that router, maybe not stronger but my laptop doesn't disconnect that much. I was using bittorent program with this router and for some reason once bittorent reach certain speed, router would casue internet to turn off and eventually to slow it down. Even after bittorrent was shut down internet was slow, only computer reboot would fix that problem. I went to check on the firmware, it turn out that firmware on the router was newer than what it was on the belkin website. I tried flashing that router and router didn't die but it is not longer accessable, same as dead. From my experience belkin products don't perform well and I will avoid buying them.

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