Belkin Belkin F5D8230-4 Wireless Pre-N Broadband Router

Reviewed by: grogargh

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Signal Range

Weaknesses: VoiP, SPI Firewall

Overall Evaluation: My experience is that GENERALLY speaking, the router works with my cable internet connection. The interface is relatively easy to use.My MAJOR beef is that VoiP does NOT WORK. This is a KNOWN problem (and if you search for it on various forums, for at least 1 year!).What happens is that the SPI firewall detects the VoiP calls (I have vonage) detects them as "UDP Floods" and drops the UDP frames, resulting in very choppy voice calls, both for me, and the callee.After doinking with tech support for a couple of weeks, realized they were just jerking me around. I really got aggravated when one of the last emails I got from them was to "erase cookies, clear your internet cache" - what the HECK does clearing my browser cookies have to do with VoiP using my external Vonage box? IDIOTS.The ONLY solution is to disable the SPI firewall - leaving you "nearly" naked except to the NAT firewall - no acceptable to me so I returned it. My Linksys WRT54G never had this problem.