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As compared to my older router, this does not do anything more. Not worth the extra money for features does not work.

The range on this item is awful. I expected it to have better range than Wireless g. It didn't. What a disappointment.

Set-up and installation was easy, though.

The range and throughput of this router were awful. I bought it to replace an aging Linksys WRT54G, and was absolutely appalled at it's performance. After spending almost three hours on the phone with technical support people who were not even as knowledgeable as I was and who barely spoke English (obviously outsourced to India), I gave up and decided to send it back. Amazon did a great job with the return, but the router is not worth the money, effort, or trouble. Stay away!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like Tony above, I'm not a newbie to computers, networking or routers. I have to say that this product is truly awful as is Belkin's support. When the N1 came out of the box it did not function correctly. The supplied Setup CD ROM didn't work at all. I finally got the router to lock onto the Internet (and, trust me, it's slow to do so. It also doesn't hold its connection very well) but I was curious why the Setup CD didn't run. I phoned support. Their reply? "You don't really need that anyway!" That might be true but I wanted to know what was "wrong." I never got that answer.

Later in the evening the N1 Notebook adapter card arrived. Well their software not only completely took over Windows XP's wireless settings but the program would not uninstall. Nothing I did would get rid of this baby and get it off of my computer. After an hour of hammering through the registry and trying a System Restore I called tech support. This time I got India. (Oh joy!) I get, "go to Control Panel and choose Add/Remove programs." I didn't scream. I simply hung up.

It took quite awhile to get this horrible stuff off my computer. (It had "munged" all my other wireless connections.)

My Linksys SRX (Pre-N) has far better range and is MUCH FASTER. For me, last time I buy anything more than a cable or hub from Belkin. Do yourself a favor -- stay with PRE-N until a standard is reached. And even then, side by side, the Linksys SRX is a far superior product.

I am writing from Costa Rica, and I thing this is a very good router and I am very happy with my purchase.
Very fast, good signal, in other words excellent.