Belkin Wireless-G Router DSL/Cable Gateway by Belkin Inc.
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Digital camera reviews of Belkin Wireless-G Router DSL/Cable Gateway
Digital camera Review: 1 Stars
Very unreliable until I switched it to the slower 802.11B. Everyone I know that has this unit experiences the same symptoms. Save your soul. Look elsewhere.Digital camera Review: Bridge mode difficulties
Summary: 2 Stars
The current version of this router (7000) does not support bridging to older versions of the 7240-4. If you plan on using it in a bridged network call Belkin to verify that it will work.
The posted documentation on Amazon is not for the current version of the product.
Digital camera Review: Buy a router from someone that knows routers!
Summary: 1 Stars
This router works for one or two days and then drops its connection. Cycling the power is all that will clear it up, and in another day or two it happens again. As other reviewers have said, Support is no help, and firmware does nothing to help with the problem. Look around the internet and you'll see how many people can't get this router working well.
Belkin makes good computer accessories, but do yourself a favor and spend a little extra up front on a wireless router with a name behind it like Linksys or D Link. The Linksys that replaced this Belkin has worked flawlessly, while the Belkin is collecting dust. I couldn't bring myself to give this headache to anyone else on Craigslist....
Digital camera Review: Calling it worthless junk would be an insult to worthless junk
Summary: 1 Stars
About every 3-12 hours (depending on load), this router suddenly stops routing traffic. Or at least it used to. It has since moved on to terminating its wireless signal entirely. (I haven't tried the wired link while it is in this state.) The only thing you can do is power cycle it. I've tried firmware updates with no success. I've tried locking it to a particular wireless channel as the Belkin docs suggest. I've tried everything short of installing OpenWRT on it....
The worst thing about this router is that there are nine, count them NINE different hardware versions for this router. That likely means that they found hardware bugs sufficiently severe to warrant rolling the hardware eight times. More importantly, they roll at most one firmware update for any given rev of the hardware. They don't get one rev fully working before the Chinese manufacturer retools their line and Belkin starts rebadging a completely different piece of hardware.
This means that if your Belkin gear doesn't work perfectly out of the box, you should not count on Belkin *ever* fixing the problem with a firmware update. When we got ours, the latest firmware was already months old, and they haven't updated it since. This is a common problem with rebadgers that don't design their own hardware, and is sufficient reason by itself to completely avoid ANY Belkin-based network hardware.
Poor quality seems to be a trend with Belkin. The last product of theirs I bought prior was a USB-to-serial adapter back in 1999. Plugged it into my machine and the computer shut off. Apparently, the product was shorting the power rail to ground, and the computer's power supply decided to cut power to protect the machine. With a lesser machine, it would have fried my motherboard. Returned it for a Keyspan that still works to this day, a decade later.
In short, it's probably worth avoiding anything Belkin makes.
Digital camera Review: Cheap -- but not reliable
Summary: 2 Stars
On one hand, these are cheap little routers. They work most of the time. However, I have now had 3 of these, and the first two have been very flaky -- dropping wireless pretty consistently. I will say that it wasn't a problem to get it replaced under warranty, though. I guess for a cheap unit like this, it's not worth their time to troubleshoot, they just send you a new one. So I appreciated that.
I've also noticed that the look/model of these changes rapidly. I wonder if they are OEMing different models from manufacturers making ultra-cheap hardware. I can't say I'm very impressed.