Belkin F5D6231-4 Wireless Cable/DSL RouterBelkin F5D6231-4 Wireless Cable/DSL Router
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- LAN Ports - N/A
- WAN Ports - N/A
- RS-232 Port - N/A
- Firewall - NAT
- Personal Computers: 0 pages
- Publisher: Belkin Components
- Label: Belkin Components
- Studio: Belkin Components
- Sales Rank in Electronics: #71265
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:  Advance Users Beware, By "liu02bhs" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Belkin F5D6231-4 Wireless Cable/DSL Router (Personal Computers) Wireless router is a must have for laptop users. It provides a range of freedom unparallel to any wired set up. If you go to a university or work for a company that has wireless connection everywhere, you will truly appreciate the convenience of wireless internet. It has revolutionized internet as much as cell phone has revolutionized telecommunications.Belkin's 802.11b router is a good router to have if you are using it for only wireless internet and sharing connection. The installation is very easy for novice users. It's just a matter of following a bunch of diagrams in the manual to get everything started. If you run into problems, Belkin has an excellent 24/7 free tech support program. I got almost a no-wait response. However, the regular tech support's knowledge is very rudimentary, knowing less about networking than me. I think they just following a manual of FAQs. With that said, I have found some problems with the 802.11b router running more advanced features like...Read more 29 of 37 people found the following review helpful:  Good potential, but needs firmware update, By This review is from: Belkin F5D6231-4 Wireless Cable/DSL Router (Personal Computers) I was initially very pleased with this router. It was reasonably easy to set up, although I configured it by hand instead of using the Easy Install Wizard so I can't speak to the quality of the Wizard. The 76-page manual is good, though missing an index.The web-based interface was very very nice (at first, but more on this later). I was able to enter my settings quickly, and there appears to be a high level of customization possible. This router comes with firewall capabilities that are not necessarily advertised, which was a welcome surprise. Things worked well for the first day, and the range on the wireless was quite good. At that point I decided to increase security. I disabled SSID Broadcast so that the ID of my network would not be spuriously broadcast...however, a new laptop immediately saw the network. So I'm not sure if SSID broadcast disable works, or if I made some mistake. Then I tried to filter MAC addresses (which ensures that only specified computers have...Read more 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful: Great router, By Corey Smith (University Heights, OH United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Belkin F5D6231-4 Wireless Cable/DSL Router (Personal Computers) I love my router and feel I need to defend it. I got this thing, unpacked it, stuck it on my DSL modem and it runs...well. No resets, I get excellent signal strength all through my 3 floor brick house, MAC filtering works perfectly (doesn't block connections, but they are useless) and the encryption is as good as you can get from WEP. The PPoE works great and the DHCP assigns wireless IPs without fail.
I might suggest that some of the people who had problems might try to make sure the thing is sitting away from their computer case, as is instructed in the manual. |
