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The Belkin N Wireless Router uses the Wireless N protocol to provide an ultra-fast and reliable wireless network for your apartment or office. Offering outstanding performance, this router can handle the most demanding tasks, letting you stream HD video at the same time your kids are playing online games and sharing photos with their friends.
 | The Belkin Wireless N Router: - Creates a Wireless-N network with up to a 1200-foot range and 300Mbps data throughput.
- Is backward compatible with Wireless-G and 802.11b networks.
- Has four 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports for wired connections.
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Wireless-N offers up to 300 Mbps wireless speeds for bandwidth-intensive users. View larger. |
The router also includes four wired Ethernet ports. View larger. |
Smart Design with Wired and Wireless Connections The Wireless N Router has a striking, vertical enclosure that is both handsome and space efficient. The two built-in external antennas provide a wireless range of up to 1,200 feet and easily covers an apartment or small office. Six LEDs for Security, Wireless, Wired, Router, Modem, and Internet let you know the status of your network at a glance, making it easy to troubleshoot any problems.
Wireless N uses the latest 802.11n Draft 2.0 technology, offering better range and throughput than 802.11g and 802.11b networks. By using smart MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output) antenna technology, the range of a Wireless N network is extended and can blanket a large home.
With wireless speeds of up to 300Mbps, you won't be waiting for videos to buffer or music to download because your children are playing online games. Wireless N provides more than enough bandwidth to make crystal-clear Internet phone calls, transfer a large amount of photos, and stream movies to your computer without any lag or hiccups.
You can also share networked peripherals such as a Wi-Fi printer, hard drives, and DVDs. If you have some computers that use the older wireless standards, they'll still work because the Wireless N router is backwards compatible with 802.11g and 802.11b devices (though they won't connect at the same blistering speed). For maximum speed and range, Belkin's N Wireless USB Adapter, Notebook Card, and ExpressCard adapter are recommended.
In addition to Wireless N, the router also has four 10/100 Ethernet ports at the back, giving you the option to plug in for a steady and secure, fast connection running at up to 100Mbps.
Thanks to the strong built-in security, including support for WPA, WPA2, Wi-Fi Protected Setup, and 64-and 128-bit WEP encryption, you will be protected from hackers and intruders trying to gain access to your sensitive files. Setting up security is simple, too: just push the Wi-Fi Protected Setup button located on the front of the router. The router also supports VPN for making secure connections between home and office.
Easy to Set Up Belkin designed the Wireless N Router to be as simple to use as possible. Simply connect your wireless router to your cable or DSL modem, plug the router in, and connect your computer to the router. That's it. To help monitor your network performance and usage, the router includes Personal Network Assistant software, which runs on Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X 10.4/10.5.
The Belkin N Wireless router is backed by a 1-year warranty and includes free 24/7 technical support.
What's in the Box N Wireless Router, quick installation guide, Personal Network Assistant CD, user manual on CD, power supply, RJ45 Ethernet networking cable.
With a range up to 1200 feet, you have the freedom to work wherever you want. |
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
(108 customer reviews) 57 of 62 people found the following review helpful
A good router with notable stability problems,
December 12, 2008 ChildInside - See all my reviews
This review is from: Belkin F5D8236-4 Wireless N 4-Port Router (Personal Computers)
To begin, I purchased this router less than a few weeks before Christmas. This is actually my first wireless router (I had always used wired routers before), but I was able to plug it in, and connect perfectly fine. In less than 30 minutes, I was able to set it up, and my wired connections worked perfectly fine. Only problem was that the wireless didn't work at all.
I've struggled with the wireless for a week after I got this router. The problem was that upon first setting up the router, it would work fine, but as soon as you implement new settings (port forwarding or wireless security, for example), it would suddenly stop working. I found that hard resetting was the only way to get the wireless to work, but of course, leaving it as thus was unacceptable because I wanted to at least set up wireless security to prevent outside access. Unfortunately, after a few hours of struggling with this, it resulted in the wireless not working at all. Hard resetting, powercycling,...Read more
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Easy Setup and Works Great,
September 13, 2009 S. Kopuri (Tampa, FL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Belkin F5D8236-4 Wireless N 4-Port Router (Personal Computers)
I read reviews on amazon and other store websites (best buy, etc.) for this and a ton of other routers because this was my first router purchase (my parents have a D-link but I needed one for my new apartment). I spent a lot of time going back and forth on different routers because I wanted something that could last for awhile but be affordable. Most of the reviews for this Belkin router were either "I've had this router for a week and its amazing!" or "this is a waste of money do not buy!!". But after going through all of these reviews, most of which were unhelpful but some not so bad, I realized the biggest issue people had was that they had to reset the router frequently (I think people were exaggerating about how annoying that is because that usually happens with most modems and routers).
I decided to order this one because it was a really good price for an N router, I figured I know computers pretty well and won't have problems like some of the other people posting bad...Read more
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Easy to set up, unreliable use,
January 20, 2009 Peter Sripinyo - See all my reviews
This review is from: Belkin F5D8236-4 Wireless N 4-Port Router (Personal Computers)
This router is extremely easy to set up through its web interface, 192.168.2.1. I had a wireless network set up with security very quickly.
However, the router dropped its internet connection (both wired and wireless) every twenty to thirty minutes. After looking through the internet, it seemed that the router was releasing and renewing its IP lease with my ISP and disrupting the internet connection. A quick check of my security log verified that indeed, the router was attempting to renew well before the lease time was up.
I contacted Belkin through email via its website. They were quick to answer (even though my initial email was on Sunday and my follow up was on Monday, MLK day) but gave the standard response of trying to directly connect my computer to the modem to make sure my connection was stable and to reflash the firmware and reapply default settings.
If a firmware reflash and the stability of the connection were not the problem, they would...Read more
