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The Visual display on the Wirless Router is a joy to look at like on screen looks like a speedo showing your real time up load and download times.

Definetly a piece of Must have bling for the computer system!

KC

I have had this for a month now, when its running ok its great, I get 19mb+ through it. It has crashed and locked up about 6 times now and when it does it is not usually just a case of rebooting the modem by disconnecting the power. I end up having to power down the router then the modem, apply power to the modem then the router. On the last occasion I ended up phoning virgin as I couldnt get a connection there answer was it was the routers firewall blocking everything, I had to power down as above, wait 2 minutes, then power up as above, then restart pc to get a connection. If things carry on this way, I may be contacting amazon for a cure or replacement. The router is already running the latest firmare as when you first plug it in it automatically checks for an upgrade.

All in all,I would recomend this router because of the speed, previous routers I've had including a dlink "draft n" have started off with a decent speed but drop off after an hour or so,sometimes less, and i Have ended up with speeds of less than a couple of meg when paying for twenty. The belkin doesnt seem to suffer this problem giving me a fairly constant 19+ mb.

having gone through about 3 routers, as inevitably they only seem to have a life of around 10,000 hours I bought the N1 vision as my network includes 2 Apple TVs for streaming media. This router was horrendous, wireless signal kept droping, internet disconnecting and incorrect readings on the display. Having spent far too much time on their support line (and they always assume you know nothing about computers) I have switched back to Netgear and will never buy another Belkin product again. Check the net, seems I'm not the only one with these problems...

I bought this as a replacement to an earlier Belkin product. I have Virgin media which has a wired network through a router. I then had an access point to establish a wireless network for my lap top. Range and reliability were limited so I wanted a single product which would allow me a wired network router for my desktops and also a powerfull wireless network for my lap top. This does both and I can now use my laptop at the bottom of my garden some 100ft away from the unit. It also provides a very reliable & fast connections and through put.
Simply put, it's a fast improvemnt on the old belkin unit i had and set up was easy.

I bought this product from Amazon in July 2008 and its May 2009 now - problems NON-STOP.

FAULTS-
After two weeks the router kept crashing constantly especially when I was away from home so I couldn't restart it and I was trying to access my web server remotely.

A month later the screen died

On the same day before the screen died, I did download a firmware patch (however isn't official as its pre release but it stopped crashing ever so often)

4 months later, the product stopped working full stop. Wireless couldn't be found and trying to access the wired connection was futile. And I'm going to see if it can be sorted by Belkin on Monday as support isn't available on Saturdays.

I wouldn't buy another Belkin Router again - I've had two and they've both been dodgy in some way or form!

I recommend LinkSys as they are CISCO approved according to what's on the box.