Belkin Sucks!
May 2nd, 2003Do not buy a Belkin router. There are perfectly decent, cheap wireless AP/router combos in the world. Not a Belkin.
Besides being crappy, ugly, poorly documented hardware, with a horrible configuration inteface, where they make up their own little mini-jargon rather then using standard terms, and besides the fact that we still haven’t been able to make the Mac talk to the router, Belkin is evil. They are showing popup ads for Belkin products on my home network! I understand the approach of APs out in the world proxying http requests to a login page, its a useful way to have a login, or share information about a project as I’ve mentioned.
But there is absolutely, no possible way to justify Belkin thinking they have the right to show advertisement on my home network simply because I’m using their crappy hardware.
Belkin sucks. Do not buy one. I’m going to go return this thing for the people I’m visiting and get them something decent. I think I would prefer 2 tin cans on a piece of string, but they might not realize it was an upgrade.
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LOOOL Belkin is it that bad
Belkin Wireless G Router. Used 12 hours total (3 times in 1 year) problems connecting first 2 times, 3rd time l.e.d. flashed for hardware failure.
6 calls to technical support (which is in India or Pakistan) They give these people English names “Bob” when they can’t speak English properly. 6th call they promised a new router which never arrived. Ended up throwing it in the bin.
As the saying goes, stick to a specialist. They are able to concentrate all their efforts on a specific technology so the end product is of a decent quality, unlike Belkin which make everything badly.
ps: this kind of company gives away labour to foreign countries. The corporate fat cats at Belkin really need executing in the most violent, prolonged and horrific ways known to man. Fuck them.
Belkin sucks!!!! I just wasted three hours dealing with their inept customer service line. And it still doesn’t work. Never again!!!!!
Belkin router is the biggest pain in the ass to hook up and use I have ever seen. No Belkins allowed in this house . I will never buy another of their products.
please ” as a request” never buy Belkin. I bought two years ago and since then i am dying slowly everyday. just bought Macbookpro last week, and Belkin became a completely useless crap. Buy anything else,banana,mango…but never buy belkin
I bought a belkin four days ago. I have spent about one whole day fixing my computer on what this piece of crap has caused. After i plugged it in, it worked perfectly. I was going to assume that belkings were really great products at that moment. It was flawless at the start. The day later, it started having a bit of problems, eating up about one and a half hours of my day. Then two days later, this no-firewalled adapter has ceased to hold back any damned creature that hates computers. I got a virus. No, this was not a normal virus. It just had to be the worst virus that most people have ever seen in their years of no-life gaming. Hey, I am not be judgemental here. I fit into this group. However, my point is that each time I try to run Malwarebytes, the virus intercepts the process, closes it down and then wrecks the executable in the program files and any other existing mbam.exe’s. Someone had then told me about Microsoft’s MSE. Every time that thing is installed onto my computer, the virus causd the computer to just shut down. When i turn on the computer, and get into the login screen, BAM! It shuts down. (btw, the virus got rid of the dll called framedyn, for those wondering what it was). After this, I reformatted the computer, thinking that this damned hardware will actually help me out for once and connect to the internet so i can start downloading all the previous data. Now, now, did you actually think this thing would actually connect to the router? I was left trying to fix this since this morning. I have experienced lag, failure of conectivity, waste of time, and for the most part, MY JAVA CODINGS ARE ALL GONE!!! This really pisses me off. I would love to get my money back, and keep this damnede product. Hell, I would actually pay them to take it away from me! And what I do not get is that we have to have internet in order to email the techteam for a problem of connectivity. I also do not feel like wasting several more hours on the phone, being completely confused on what they are saying. I give this product a 2/10. Good on the first day. Crappier as each day passes.
BELKIN REALLY SUCKS!!!! I’ve wasted my money to buy a trash!!!! There’re lots of better products with a lower price out there…. Really disappointing!!!!!
Every wireless Belkin I’ve had the displeasure of using is horrible. Some of them work ok for basic web browsing, but try playing a game or streaming a movie and you are screwed. I used to time out of battle.net every other game (which gets recorded as a LOSS), and even the games I didn’t get dropped, I still had to alt+tab every one to fifteen seconds repeatedly just to keep the routers attention. My computer was less than fifteen feet away. I swapped it out for an older Wireless G Linksys I had lying around, and never had a problem again until I moved, and guess which kind of router is set up here: Belkin! And I have the same problems all over again. So do yourself a favor and just burn any money you might be considering spending on a Belkin, or better yet get a Linksys. I would rate Netgear somewhere in between the two, and D-Link almost as bad as Belkin. I’m sure some fanboy of one of these I didn’t favor will flame me someday, but keep in mind I’m just basing this off of my own experiences.
Today was (at least) the fourth series of calls I’ve made to Belkin this summer. My connection to the wireless G router has a habit of collapsing upon itself for various reasons. Today I went through two yahoos putting me on hold forever (I think they hate me there by now, as I do not react well to technical problems at home) before the one intelligent person they have walked me through the problem. I imagine I’ll be speaking to her next week. If it happens again I’m a) getting a Linksys and b) taking the Belkin to an empty field and beating it repeatedly with a bat.
ALL Belkin products SUCK. ALL OF THEM.
What a company….
I agree. Belkin is a really poor company. Its routers are a Piece of crap. I have called belkin twice now, and each time they have upgraded me to the next best router in it’s model line. But the routers have packed up even faster with each new model! I can’t help but laugh
) it’s a joke of a company. Just sad that I wasted my hard earned cash on one.