Belkin 4-port Cable\DSL Router $50 shipped and taxed, no rebates!

[novon]

Just got it for $50 shipped INCLUDING tax and free shipping (2 days left) from Dell Software and Accessories after the 15% discount.



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Enjoy

 

[DrRomulus]

Anyone read any reviews on this? It's pretty sweet lookin, thats for sure.

Any reviews out there?

 

[Mecheater]

Geez... how prices have changed so quick for routers. :disgust:

Looks like a deal, Nice find

 

[exisle]

Sorry to deal crap but this router was a pain in the ass. First off, the firewall automatically blocks everything coming in, most every single port, except for vital stuff like dns and http. This wouldn't be such of a problem except for the fact that you cannot specify port ranges to forward to computers or unblock. The second problem I had with this router was crashing, It worked ok on my cable modem but it seemed after every half hour or so it had to be reset or it would not work. I sent mine back to dell and bought a linksys, it's way better. The linksys automatically opens every port, but that's a good thing because it's secure, since incoming attacks don't get forwarded to any of your computers unless the port is routed to a computer. This means that almost every program you have is going to work with no configuration once you have it up and running(except for server apps like a ftp server which require port forwarding). You also have to power to block port ranges if you want, and the linksys router runs a lot better. That being said the I think the belkin is probably going to be unacceptable to most techies on anandtech. If you run special programs like games, or chat programs, you're not going to be able to use them on this unless you put one computer on DMZ which takes it off the firewall and automatically forwards everything to that computer. Then you could run everything normally on a single computer but your other computers couldn't. Belkin will hopefully come out with a firmware to fix these problems.

 

[hesse]

Don't get this router. Too many problems. Imcompatibility with popular NIC (Linksys) and frequent dropped connections. Very frustrating. I am returning it to Dell today...and ordered Linksys from Staples yesterday. Hope Linksys is better...

 

[exisle]

the linksys is amazing, well worth the extra cost

 

[Golliwogg]

Niiiice . . . . Im gonna order count em 5 ! ! heehee

 

[MuffD]

Good thing I saw this. I was gonna order this too but I think I will wait to get an SMC.

 

[baseballfan]

Just adding my vote for the SMC Barricade - has worked great for me for over a year, through cable reconfigurations and all.