📶 Enhanced Wireless Dual Band N+ Router - Belkin Play N600 HD Model Review

Having worked with Linksys routers for many years, I noticed that the quality of the product dropped after Cisco acquired Linksys. I decided to try another brand of router; After first reviews of the product I bought this one. Everything was fine with the setup and I also updated the firmware to the latest version. The setup had more options than Linksys (which I'm not used to) via a web interface. My old Pre-N Linksys was constantly losing bandwidth on my Wireless-G laptops, but this product…

The Belkin F7D8301 is [typically] the cheapest gigabit port router you can buy that supports Tomato (a variant of DD-WRT). I personally prefer Tomato Shibby's VPN build because it supports PPTP (the built-in Windows VPN) over OpenVPN. But I'm sure others have other favorites. In addition, you can find other routers that support DD-WRT with Gigabit ports. But I wanted a tomato. Anyway, I bought from Blue Proton and really got what I ordered - F7D8301 (gigabit ports and TWO USBs). . I was a…

I tried to install a router and was very disappointed. It seemed like all I had to do was set up the router with a network name and password. As I read the CD on the computer, I was instructed that I could not proceed and should call the 800 number provided for assistance. After calling and jumping through the menus, I finally found a Belkin representative who wrote down all of my details, model number, date of purchase, etc. He then told me I was in the wrong department. Huh? I called the…

*********************************** * ****** ************************** TO UPDATE. 01/20/2014 So far the router has been working fine, all torrents have been downloaded directly to USB flash drives in ports on the back of the router (choose flash drives instead of hard drives to reduce energy costs). ************************************************** **** ***** ***** ************ I bought this router because for all its specs, USB ports, and incredible price, it didn't have the Fancy bulbs…

Inexpensive gigabit WLAN router. This is a Belkin 7FD8301 router with 4 Gigabit LAN ports and 1 WAN port. It has 2 USB ports and a reset button on the back. Very simple diagnostic LEDs (only 1 above). The default firmware looked ok but was quite outdated (2010). I didn't try to update from the Belkin site, downloaded DD-WRT instead (no problem). It features a 453MHz Broadcom chipset, 64MB RAM and 8MB Flash. The weakest feature of this model is the wireless connection. The signal strength with…

I read other reviews so I knew others had issues and were disappointed with the product. I have over 10 years of experience in IT. I first tried the product with the CD/DVD that came with it. This allowed the Belkin router software to take control of the wireless network on my Win7 laptop. This part of the process went well, found that the password was set on the router, etc. I had problems with the USB ports on the back of the router, the USB flash drive only appeared once on my wireless…