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I have to reboot this router once every other day to keep my signal. I also had to purchase a signal booster to get it to work throughout my house - and it's not that big.

The worst thing is that I bought Belkin products because of their router-based Parental Control features. Thet have since cancelled their contract with Cerberian, and now provide NO ROUTER BASED PARENTAL CONTROL WHATSOEVER. They tell you to go buy Zone Alarm. With 4 children in the house, I now have 7 Belkin products that are absolutely worthless. EBay, here they come.

!!!!ABSOLUTELY NOT RECOMMENDED!!!! I would give ZERO stars if that would be possible. First it all went fine. The installation process is easy. After some time, though, the router just sporadically switches off the wireless connection. Sometimes after a couple of hours, sometimes every 5 minutes. The only thing you can do then is unplugging and re-plugging again to let it restart. That is a pain especially when you need continuous online access. I checked out on the web, but found no one offering a solution for that. Instead I found a couple of people having the same problems and couldn't fix it either. I am going to buy another one from a different company now.

Using WPA this router drops connections every 15 minutes like clockwork on my MacBook and on my Netflix Roku player. I threw this in the trash and bought a Linksys which works perfectly.

This is as bad an electronic device I have ever owned (in over 40 years). I have a new Macbook with the older OS X. The Easy Install wizard did not work. I spent over 4 hours on the phone with Belkin--some of their representatives gave me one procedure; others a competely different procedure; others managed to reset some of my server settings (which took me over an hour on the phone with ATT to undo); another claimed the router was defective. A final rep. told me that everything the previous reps (level 1 reps) had told me was wrong. He set it up. It lasted two days. I managed to reset it. It lasted one day.

I have no objection to receiving a defective product. But it should hardly have taken an entire afternoon dealing with various levels of Belkin to find this out.

I will never buy another piece of Belkin equipment again, nor will I deal with the contradictory advice and claims made by their presumed support department.

I've had my belkin G router for about a year now and this thing is the worse. It drops the internet signal daily and sometimes two or three times daily. Then I have to unplug it wait for it to reset, plug it up again, and let my computer pick up the signal. Its such a big hassle. I hate the Belkin G router. I would get a linksys instead, which I plan to do soon.