Belkin Surf N300 Wireless N Router

Manufacturer : Belkin Components Model : F7D6301q ASIN : B0045U9V5G Price : 44.99$ Last Price : 25$(Discount 44.4320960213381% See Special Offers Product Description Belkin Surf N300 Wireless N Router Most Helpful Customer Reviews 12 of 14 people found the following review helpful: Good router, make sure you get the one in the orange/white box (F7D6301) This review is from: Belkin Surf N300 Wireless N Router (Personal Computers) A lot of people have complained about the Belkin Surf F7D230 - the older version of this router sold in a blue/white box. I got the revised version F7D6301, which seems to work just fine for me. I am replacing my good-ole Linksys WRT54G v1.0 with the Belkin Surf N300 F7D6301. Here are my comments: * I bought it for $29 at Walmart on Black Friday, otherwise it sells for about $45. * I did not use the Setup CD that would install a 95MB setup/monitoring program. * If you have Windows 7, the setup is easy enough, just connect the power cable, hook up the router to the modem and you are set. The only other thing you need to do is to enter the preset password located on a small card on the side of the router. You can later access the router settings by entering http://192.168.2.1/ in your browser and set up a more convenient WPA/WPA2 under "Security" located in the left hand side navigation area. * If you are not tech savvy, run the setup CD, it pretty much does it all for you. I then ran a network test on speedtest.net and Belkin Surf outperformed my old router in download speeds Linksys 12 Mbps vs. Belkin Surf 20 Mbps. Upload speeds were exactly the same 1.85 Mbps. Please note that speeds will vary due to your provider and what type of plan you have. Then I tested the range performance. I walked outside with my laptop, about 150 feet and after connecting to one and the other, I noticed that the signal strength was "fair" for my old router and "good" for the Belkin. Also, the speeds have dropped significantly for both routers, but the Belkin still outperformed the old Linksys; 2-4 Mbps for the Linksys vs. 6-8 Mbps for the Belkin. Pros: + Over all, the router is a great choice for the $price$. + No dropped connection issues, signal strength is good all over the house. + I can surf the web even 150 ft. away from the router. + The internet speed is improved. Cons: - Not that it matters, but the router feels like it is made out of cheap plastic. For those who like good looking/feeling things, this is definitely not the best choice. However, if you don't care about visual appeal, tuck this thing away from the view and let it do it's job. The rest is up to you... 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful: Superb product This review is from: Belkin Surf N300 Wireless N Router (Personal Computers) I bought this router to replace an aging wired only router as I now require a wireless router, (I still required a 4-port wired switch built in too which this unit has so it seemed ideal.) The model I was shipped is the F7D6301 V1. There is a supplied CD containing a simple to follow wizard to install the router and easily change the most common settings, but instead I just set up the router through my web-browser, (the router defaulted to a local IP address of 192.168.2.1 when plugged in so could be easily administered through a web browser). After checking all the settings, (most were set to my requirements already, I just changed the SSID to something more specific to me to differentiate my network from a couple of Belkin wireless networks within range that had similar names, increased the amount of characters in the WPA/WPA2 key significantly for additional security, added a password to access the router configuration, and enabled MAC Address Filtering so as to further protect against any unauthorized attempts to log-on from machines not within my network.) I'm quite astounded by the quality of the wireless signal - even on different floors of the building the signal never drops below the maximum five bars, and the connectivity hasn't cut once - I have an XP Desktop PC, connected via the 4-port wired switch, an old laptop running Ubuntu 11.04 with a cheap USB1 wireless adapter, a Vista laptop and a Windows 7 laptop connected to the router via their built-in wireless capability as I write, (with the wireless secured using WPA/WPA2. A previous reviewer expressed problems setting up WPA2, I've no idea why, it works perfectly.) I am very impressed with the ease and flexibility in setting up this router. The speed, security options and reliability are all excellent too. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to people based on my experience, especially for the price. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Gamers be Warned    This review is from: Belkin Surf N300 Wireless N Router (Personal Computers) 1. No Priority Settings 2. Universal Plug and Play Option is Useless Lets start with the positives. Setting up was pretty simple for me, took maybe 15 minutes. The signal WAS consistently strong for the first month or so. Thats about it for the positive. Now the biggest problem I had with this router is its completely useless for gaming, worse, it prevents it. I hooked it up to my XBox and tried to play some CoD. However I couldn't connect to any games because my NAT settings were automatically set to STRICT. I looked up the problem online and found that I need to change the NAT settings on the router. Attempt 1. The problem? This router doesn't have a NAT setting option. Attempt 2. I then saw that it had a Universal Plug and Play option. However, even enabling UPnP did NOTHING. Absolutely NOTHING to help with the NAT settings. Attempt 3. I saw that the router at least had an DMZ setting option. So I manually assigned the XBox's IP address through the DMZ and finally the NAT setting changed from Strict to Moderate. Now I'm able to connect to games, however, it takes several time-consuming attempts on the XBox's part. Now the NAT setting should not affect the quality of the game play, however, I get One Red Bar for my signal strength. (NOTE: No other computers are connected to the router at this time.) You gamers know what one bar means; it means you lag so bad by the time you see an enemy on the screen you've already been shot up and then respawned. This is a router problem and separate from the NAT settings. So I gave up, unplugged the Ethernet cable from the router and connected directly to the XBox. Now I get the NAT settings to be OPEN and 4 Green Bars. Smooth play, with the Beklin Surf N300 out of the network. I actually wish this router did nothing, instead it destroys my XBox connection. I have been getting so frustrated with this router that I'm going to buy a new router, of course from a different company. I lost the receipt so I can't return it and I was considering selling it online but I know it will just cause another person pain. Also this router doesn't have priority or the option of capping bandwidth. So one computer can hog the internet (sister streaming from Netflix) while you struggle to view your emails. Lately now its dropping connections, even as I type this review. So I'm copying this review and praying that when I press the "Preview your review" it will go through. Most Recent Customer Reviews One thing they don't tell you to fix your issues I had a review written saying that this was an okay router. I was wrong. It finally, after a month, decided to fail on me again and again and again. by NickJ Unreliable at best I bought this particular router because I thought a cheap one would give me what I payed for. This one wasn't high-end, but it wasn't bottom shelf. Well, it should have been. by J'ean "JUNK" Junk, junk, junk . Oh, did i mention junk.This thing would lose connection at least 3 times a day. It would change it's own password.Please stay away from this "JUNK". by David disconnects all the time [update 10/17/2011] The dropping connection problem went away. I guess I own Belkin an apology. I am changing the rating to a 4 star. by JFang DO NOT BUY! This router is a bad choice! i have this router and use it for xbox live and another desktop pc. the xbox is not even a room away and the signal constantly drops. by Discover Not worth the mess I bought the belkin router n300 about two months ago and twice I've had interruptions in my internet service because it has malfunctioned. by chha HORRIBLE Plain and simple....this router SUCKS!!! I purchased it to replace my 7 year old Belkin Wireless G. Tried to play some COD on XBox 360 and got nothing but constant lag. by Damon F Belkin N300 wireless router I bought the Belkin router a couple months ago to go with my new i Mac. The salesman picked it out for me with no discussion of other options. by Marilyn C. Martin wasted money I purchased this to replace my seven year old Lynksys Wireless-G. I set it up and was dumbfounded when I saw the wireless range was only eight feet. EIGHT FEET!! by davemo Horrible router. Disconnect all the time. I've had this router for about 4 months. It's horrible. Like other reviewers have said, it disconnects itself constantly throughout the day. by I luv puppies

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