Belkin Wireless Routers - Suck?

[Munson]

The last two I've had have both sucked basically. This one now just randomly drops the wireless connection. Only a power cycle fixes it. Anyone recommend a good replacement? Anything less than £100 is fine tbh.

 

[Griff]

The DG834GT or DG834N are both excellent.

Will it be used on IPstream or LLU?

 

[16v_jon]

Asus WL-700GE you cant beat them, they are a little more than your budget though

 

[Munson]

Will it be used on IPstream or LLU?

Erm...

I'm not sure but my Flux Capacitor could be fucked?

 

[wozzaa]

Love my Netgear DG834G signal drop is incredibly rare. And it has not been powered cycled in months.

Most of Belkins products are complete w**k especially there routers everyone I have ever used has been s**t or died.

 

[KyleB]

all the belkins ive dealt with have been s**t. the 2 d links ive used have been garbage too, havent had any problems with my dads netgear routers mind.

 

[Final Maxim]

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

 

[Munson]

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

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.

 

[FlamingMonkey]

I've had 2 Belskins too and they have been babba

 

[Mattieuk]

Roy..I have had exactly the same problem with a Belkin Router. The f**king thing randomly dropped its connection...b*****d.

Anyway I got a Netgear router to replace it which never missed a beat for a over a year until it was replaced with a Apple Extreme base station

 

[V1NNY]

linksys routers have been perfect for me never had a problem with them

 

[fizzy_drink]

Netgear have done an excellent job in replacing my previous belkins.

Both belkins were complete and utter shito by the way.

 

[Final Maxim]

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

BTW why is it capped to 2mb wireless??? I get regular reliable 9.2-9.3mb right up until it fails.

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.

 

[MrMark]

i just bought a belkin wireless router the other day, this one: F5D7633

not bad but a pain in the arse to get working with BTYahoo broadband.

 

[wozzaa]

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.

 

[b3nje]

love my belkin wireless access point.

£90 INC. print server built in and it hasn't dropped once in about 2 months

 

[UncleGrumpy]

Linksys for me, been using this for 2 years now, had no trouble with it ever. That replaced a Netgear one that was so un-reliable that I smashed it against the edge of a desk till it broke in three.

 

[Lagerlout]

I have a DG384GT for sale Royston if you want it.

 

[Munson]

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.

 

[Munson]

Anyone recommend this bad boy for use with NTL/Virgin cable?

 

[Munson]

Anyone recommend this bad boy for use with NTL/Virgin cable?

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

 

[jimbo666]

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

 

[Munson]

^^Nice one, obviously better than the shitty one I had been using

 

[jimbo666]

lol, marginally

 

[The Ironist]

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.