Belkin Routers, Etc.

[silverhawk_usa]

Belkin brand products seem to be the most prominently displayed and advertised brand in the large IT stores. Routers, ADSL modems, etc, etc. I haven't seen any comments or recommendations on this forum.

Anyone using these or have useful info?

[Tony Clifton]

Have one, has LAN connectors and wireless, works fine, 1 year old now.

[dclaryjr]

Have one, has LAN connectors and wireless, works fine, 1 year old now.

This post is brought to you via a a two-year old Belkin wireless router--no problems so far.

[youbet]

Have one, has LAN connectors and wireless, works fine, 1 year old now.

This post is brought to you via a a two-year old Belkin wireless router--no problems so far.

Even ToT and TT&T are using them down here in the south.

One of the features I like is the on screen display of the network status without having to log in to them to view it with their www interface. One of the things I hate is the way they do NAT but this is just me.

[paulfr]

One of the things I hate is the way they do NAT but this is just me.

I am curious about the tech details.

How do they do NAT and

How would you rather they do NAT ?

[MaiPenLai]

Belkin brand products seem to be the most prominently displayed and advertised brand in the large IT stores. Routers, ADSL modems, etc, etc. I haven't seen any comments or recommendations on this forum.

Anyone using these or have useful info?

Have used one for about 3 years ADSL modem and router combo unit. Works great, excellent range.

CONS: Had to buy an after market power plug adapter.

Also NOTE: I just added a Belkin usb dongle to add another desktop to the network. I would recommend that if you use this device to NOT USE the utility that comes bundled and ONLY load the driver. It caused an AMD board and CPU to run at 100%.......... Windows task manager pegged the utility as the culprit............ And it was very obvious as it slowed the computer to a crawl and had all 6 computer fans instantly running at 100 %.

happy computing

[sjaak327]

I use a Linksys router now, have used USR and Netgear before. But I hear the belkin routers are indeed not bad. But of course for me personally I refrain from ever using Belkin again, wanted to upgrade my network at home to Gigabit using a netgear switch, and yes the belkin GB nic's were working in my two workstations (running XP and 2K) but refused to work on my active directory WIN2003 server. I have tried everything, but once I got it working, after a reboot it failed again. Tried one NIC, tried two Nic's nothing worked. Replaced the two NIC's in the server with Intel ones, bingo no problem whatsoever. Fun thing was that if I would set the belkin nic to obtain IP address automatically it actually did work, but of course that was a problem as well, since I am using that server as DHCP server as well, instead of the router, simply because the WIN2003 DHCP server is much more configurable, which is nice if you run a domain.