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Belkin Wireless Routers - Suck?
- Thread starter Munson
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Punto/Clio GTT
ive got a belkin and tbh it does the job, although my 10 meg line is capped to 2 meg over the wireless.
have you got the aerials pointing the right way as they work side to side not up and down, makes ALOT of difference to signal just moving ever so slightly
have you got the aerials pointing the right way as they work side to side not up and down, makes ALOT of difference to signal just moving ever so slightly
Well...
I'm on a 10mb pipe here at home and the router is 4ft away from the lappy and it says 60% strength. However it just drops at random and needs a power cycle. Thew wired connection to the games machine is fine. Crappy plastic shite?
BTW why is it capped to 2mb wireless??? I get regular reliable 9.2-9.3mb right up until it fails.
Polo GTi
I've had 2 Belskins too and they have been babba
Clio 197
Netgear have done an excellent job in replacing my previous belkins.
Both belkins were complete and utter shito by the way.
Both belkins were complete and utter shito by the way.
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Punto/Clio GTT
only thing i can think of is possibly how far away the pc is. The main pc is downstairs and my pc is upstairs in the bedroom, plus we live in an old house so we have solid brick walls, gonna bugger up the signal even more i guess.
Im noticing a pattern here.
Everyone apart form 1 saying Belkiin suck and everyone being happy with there netgear or linksys. The only 2 makes i would consider buying.
Linksys make ace routers as well. Also due to them using a lot of the same part as the cisco routers firmware upgrades with lots of extra features are available.
Everyone apart form 1 saying Belkiin suck and everyone being happy with there netgear or linksys. The only 2 makes i would consider buying.
Linksys make ace routers as well. Also due to them using a lot of the same part as the cisco routers firmware upgrades with lots of extra features are available.
A red missile
I think I'm going to just drive by Pissy World later and get me a new one. Ntegear perhaps. Thanks for the input homes'
I was sure it was just a shitty router. I had the exact same one in my rented place up north because at the time this one was ok. That one (the former) was doing the ramdon drop-out thing from new, but this one only started doing it after about a year of use. To it's credit it was very cheap, but for the money I expect it to have less features and perhaps lower signal strength, not an inabilty to do its frickin' job without pussying out on me at random intervals.
I was sure it was just a shitty router. I had the exact same one in my rented place up north because at the time this one was ok. That one (the former) was doing the ramdon drop-out thing from new, but this one only started doing it after about a year of use. To it's credit it was very cheap, but for the money I expect it to have less features and perhaps lower signal strength, not an inabilty to do its frickin' job without pussying out on me at random intervals.
Just bought one of these from PC World for an extremely reasonable £39.99
Hooked it all up no problems. Hopefully it will prove more reliable than the piece of s**t it replaces
M135i
ive got a belkin, had it for a year now, it has NEVER dropped signal or decided to turn itself off. i had a BT home hub through the other day so i though i'd give that a go. nearly threw the sh*tting thing out of the window, utterly useless.
ive got this one, http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=187337
im sitting out in the back garden, the router is in the front bedroom upstairs. solid brick walls etc, its giving me 80% signal. cant complain with that
ive got this one, http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=187337
im sitting out in the back garden, the router is in the front bedroom upstairs. solid brick walls etc, its giving me 80% signal. cant complain with that
57 Clio Campus Sport
We've had one for about 6 months (the one shown by Jimbo666) which has been great whe have BT Broadband. Its the 35% faster one. Very good for downloading stuff most of the time. Had 200kb/s on Limewire not that i use it. And 360 and PS3 play without any lag 99.9% of the time. Do remember a little difficulty setting up though. We also had the BT home hub delivered but no end of problems and mum almost smashed it up because it was so useless.
