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I have a belkin router here at my home and needed another router for a family member and with out a doubt in my mind i chose Belkin. I use several Belkin products from Floppy drives to cat 5e cable up to my router and wouldnt think of using anything else.
Plus you can beat the warranty!!!!!

This is not a bad router for the price. It's packed with features, such as a virtual server, and restrictive web access settings. The user manual, while better than nothing, is rather sketchy in places. One problem with the router that appears to be a design flaw is that it does not stop "ping of death" attacks on the Internet, which have become much more prevalent of late. My recommendation is to purchase a more recent router with better firewall control options (This router has only "on" or "off"). That way you can be sure you will be fully protected.

It was just plug and play for me on this router. I own two of them. Neither one has cause me any trouble. I am using Windows XP and have 4 computers networked together. This router worked like a charm right out of the box. I've read other reviews and the complaints. All I can say is I haven't had these issues myself.

Maybe it's the luck of the draw. I wasnt looking for anything fancy, and this router is exactly that. There are better routers available. As far as an inexpensive one that does the job this has worked fine for me.

I am the proud owner of three "F5D5230-4" routers, and I have one at home, one in my car, and one at the office. Setup was so easy, that I had everything running in five minutes. I docked it one star because the manual is incomprehensible to English-speaking people. Whenever people ask me what that fantastic looking little box is with all those wires, I just lean back in my chair and proudly say "this is the mother of all routers, it's the F5D5230-4".

My Belkin 4 Cable/DSL 4 Port Router never was a trouble-free device. It needed frequent resets and then seemed to cause one of our computers to start only in safe mode. Further investigation of the system revealed an over-heating power adapter. Unplugging the adapter fixed the non-starting computer and all three worked just fine when individually plugged into the cable modem. On December 6th, I wrote an email to Belkin because I wasn't able to find an identical adapter locally. Belkin replied they would email me again once my RMA was approved, but told me not to respond to their notice. After waiting what seemed to be an unreasonable time for the RMA, or further communication from Belkin, I wrote again, because only one computer was on line via the Cable modem. By December 26th, I had written three or four times with no response from Belkin.
When a relative came to visit with yet another computer, I relented and bought a Linksys router. The Belkin router remains inoperable when all that it needed was an adapter replacement or some other indication Belkin was aware of the problem with their product.