News - Belkin launches dual-band Double N+ Wireless Router

[HEXUS]

Latest addition to Belkin's home networking range offers USB storage, a built-in BitTorrent client and the promise of a faster, more reliable connection.

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[Faiakes]

Does it allow for USB printer to connect to the network, though?

[chis]

More to the point, please someone tell me if Belkin routers are worth bothering with yet? I've dealth with many of their routers over the last decade, and I've found just as many of them can be reliable or unreliable. This isn't a troll, honest, I would genuinely like to know if they have improved. I used to swear by Netgear, but their N-series range doesn't have a tremendous reputation...

[Funkstar]

Never been a fan on Belkin networking gear. They never seem to work consistently.

Sure there are pople that haven't had problems, but there seems to be just as many that have had no end of issue. Too many of those kinds of reports for my liking.

[Andeh13]

Having spent many hours of my life hunting through drivers for their wireless dongles I can never see myself going down the Belkin route. Quite why the A B C D etc version of their dongles (which are only differentiated from each other by their serial number on the back) each need to have their own very specific drivers I don't know. If Geforce and Logitech can have a 'one big download' that covers all the drivers for a wide range of models then why can't Belkin?

[bradyjames]

I bought a Belkin ADSL router about 5 years ago and it died about 3 years ago. It came with a lifetime warranty so I contacted Belkin and they replaced it with an updated version supporting ADSL2+ for free and it's been fine ever since.

[taskme]

I am using IPv6 on my network and this router trashes my clients legitimate configuration.

This router gives out "Documentation Only" (2001:db8::/32) IPv6 addresses to LAN/WLAN clients and advertises itself as an IPv6 router. This conflicts with my "proper" IPv6 router, and it advertises its bogus route more aggressively.

As this IPv6 "feature" is undocumented and unsupported, there is no way to turn it off. As the router is going to be core to your LAN and WLAN clients, you cannot work round without disabling IPv6 on all your clients.

If you are using IPv6 or ever intend to use it, this router will break your network.