Belkin Sucks!
May 2nd, 2003Do not buy a Belkin router. There are perfectly decent, cheap wireless AP/router combos in the world. Do 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.
45 Comments
March 7th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
I tried using a wireless belkin USB at a hotel that broadband connection was open connection.I had just the morning brought it at local walmart for $35. once at the hotel, installed the USB adapter and drivers, well, after 30 minutes of trying to use it (could connect to router, but not internet.) gave up and tried every way to make it work, even as far as reinstalling it. still failed. tried tech support, waited for 25 minutes, got to tech, told problem, TECH DID NOTHING TO HELP ME, no settings checked, no questions, and worse was transferred to RMA to return it to them (stunk.) I then was asked for account information, which I DID NOT HAVE, transferred back to tech support, returned to walmart with crappy product. linksys card works just fine. still had problem with connection, but once I DISABLED ISP software, card then worked. AVOID BELKIN SUPPORT, it stinks.
April 1st, 2007 at 12:34 pm
belkin sucks! they should fallow linksys and sniff their shit all day long in hopes of learning how to do things correctly. they are the biggest, ingrown, infected, cunt hair to ever make it in the technology industry. They have the worst installers. tack on tons of extra shit that ends up breaking other stuff. i don’t understand how they manage to complicate the simplest of tasks. from a God Damn router to a fuckin wireless card. i have never run into so many issues while installing hardware in my life. charging per hour on estimated time quotes is not a good idea while dealing with belkin fuckups (products). If shit can go wrong it will when belkin enters the picture. i will never recommend any product they ever produce. thank you for reading my rant. i want my 4 hours back you jack asses!
April 7th, 2007 at 7:37 am
I bought a Belkin PCI card for my wife’s computer and ever since have had problems with random crashing (random only in the fact that it only crashed while attempting to access the network). I called Belikn about this on 3 occasions on never got anything more than “It’s a Microsoft issue, you’ll need to contact them”. I finally said F**** the Belkin and picked up a Linksys instead installed it and have had no problems at all in 2 months with no reconfiguration of the PC at all. Belikin said it’s a Windows problem, I say Belkin is just too ignorant to fix their own crappy hardware. Stay away from ANY Belkin product!!
May 12th, 2007 at 11:44 am
KK LOL IVE HAD 2 WIRELESS ROUTERS AND THEY JUST DISCONNECT ME FROM THE INTERNET EVERY 10 SECONDS FUCKING DIRTY PIECE OF SSHIT WORSE THAN LINKSYS AND THATS FUCKING SAYING SUMTHINK THEY CAN STICK THERE FUCKING ROUTERS UP THEERE FUCKING ARSE WHAT A PIECE OF SHITTTTTT
May 15th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Belkin sucks ass. After 2 hours of pinging and /ipconfiging, I’ve had enough of this piece of shit. Fuck you belkin!
June 10th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Already went though 3 linksys routers that were pieces of shit. Then went to try Belkin, only to realize the SSID doesnt show up in the wireless network connection list. What garbage. Dont even have any user manual or software or anything. Im gunna return this fucking shit and get a dlink. Hopefully they are better.
June 17th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Don’t buy Belkin.
Their stuff does not have proper documentation.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:25 am
I got a pcmcia wireless card for my notebook and it worked fine for about 2 weeks. then one morning i turn on my pc to find the software will not start. i uninstall it, go to the belkin site to download the latest drivers. sounds simple enough. takes 10 minutes to find the download center, 5 minutes to find my card, then find the drivers are WRONG!!! I find some drivers eventually to find they’re 2 years out of date and won’t work with wpa-psk security. so i can take the the card back and get a better card, or have less security and a massive wep key to remember
July 18th, 2007 at 12:52 am
Sure as hell it is shit! Bought the Belkin wireless g router f5d7230-4 for 40$ CAD. It connects… sometimes, but everyday I have to reboot, shake the router or pee on it to make it work. What a piece of crap. This should not be sold as a usable product. Joke, a big joke. Do NOT consider the upgrade of the firmware with Openwrt or ddwrt for this model. From what I read it used to work for the versions under 1400. Right now, in Canada, (july 2007) they ship the version 6000 which is not compatible with both open source firmware. Also, I only run Mac and linux platforms. So I can affirm that the Belkin router problems are not due to Windows, it is generalized for all OSs.
September 7th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Besides the product being crap, and being on the phone monthly (on hold forever) with them to no avail, the language barrier is something of a problem. They are going to send me a new router because they are jacking me around making me think mine is broken. So, they ask for a credit card number. I say why do you need this? They need it in case I do not return my current piece of shit router. Like who wants it anyway? I say, OK, but you won’t take this money out of my account. No, we will wait a certain number of days so you can return your router. OK so fine, 5-7 days for delivery, and I need to return. 5-7 days for that for me to return it.
Looked online at my checking account the next morning and sure enough $175 taken out for Belkin. Called customer service. Can’t do anything about it, that RMA order has gone through. No, you CAN do something about it, that is just your policy. You CAN credit my accout. Must go to “Escallation.” Escallation, of course, is closed. Not open until after the weekend, business hours. So, I don’t have this $ available to me. It won’t be available for probably something like 15 days. They should be reported. I will try to figure out how.
I hate incompetence, and Belkin and their stupid customer service are truly the leaders in that.
September 9th, 2007 at 3:11 am
Belkin sucks!! I’ve gotten Belkin Wireless Keyboard and Optical Mouse like a year ago.. now I switched to Vista and bummer.. no Vista drivers
September 18th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
This F5D7230-4 router is the biggest piece of crap that I have ever seen. And after 15 years in the tech industry I’ve seen alot of crap. This router is comparable to windows ME or for you newbees a steaming pile of elephant shit. If you are a support tech for Belkin just shoot yourself now and save yourself the pain of trying to tech an electric paper weight. I want to thank the corporate dildo that stole my $35 when I purchased this 5ft transmitting, no firmware update having piece of crap. I have tried every way known to man to make a leather purse out of this pigs ear with no result. And for any Belkin techs that may be surfing this blog because your three months at Freds tech school/ tatoo parlor/ truck driving school payed off in getting your $6hr Belkin tech/ telemarketing job. Either become a real tech or please do us a favor and go back to plumbing for a living. I understand both jobs involve dealing with shit, but for the rest of use who are REAL techs please quit helping a bunch of crooks steal money.
Have a nice day………………
October 14th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Belkin sucks, i recently bought a router from harvey norman, and the piece of shit thing barely works, i can use my internet but my downloads seem to pause everytime i try and download, so i installed a download manager and aparently my connection speed drops to nothing (but i am still connected) then it comes on again. i thought hey maybe its just something in the environment interfering with my connection so i tryed the internet on the comp that the router is connected to and it still does it.
i absolutely would not recommend belkin to anyone worst products to buy ever.
Cheers. Belkin Go Stick it.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Wasted 6 hours on and off trying to configure a Belkin G router with no success on a windows xp laptop or os x powerbook. Bought it abroad so unfortunately wont be able to return it. How Belkin can sell this shit?
An Apple airport express took 3 minutes to get a stable wireless network up and running on osx and xp machines.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Wireless G adapter: requires intimate knowledge of witchcraft. FUCKING USELESS.
November 1st, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Belkin is about the most useless piece of “hardware” I have ever purchased. Who the hell develops a product that allows the user to “enjoy” 10mins of internet usage?
How hard is it to make a router for a home network of a whopping TWO computers? How dare you shysters call yourselves a real company! Mother of Christ let me get rid of the flu so I can take this piece of shit back to best buy in a hurry.
November 7th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
belkin wirless G router is a pain in the ass. i did call tech support many times.. actually got some help but still get disconnected daily.i used to get disconnected hourly. belkin blamed my sat connection and my sat comp blamed the router. hours of wasted time for nothing. on top of that the sat installer took me for a ride by charging me 3x what it cost at best buy. at the time it saved a trip to the store. wish i went to the store and got a reliable router. now i’m on the hunt for a hassle-free, reliable router. most likely will get a buffalo.
November 20th, 2007 at 4:52 am
Hi, purchased a Belkin wireless internet USB adapter, after a week it stoped working. arranged for a replacement to be sent out, then a week after getting the replacement, the same thing happened with that! so took it back to PC world and the guy told me Belkin were ’shit’ and gave me a Netgear adapter instead - which works PERFECT.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
all true and dont bother trying to phone belkin up its a waste of time and money they all speek in broken english and they have the common sense of a retard.i was going to try and get this sorted but instead i mite just stamp on my router and maybe have a little cry..
December 20th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Their UPS warranty requires the consumer to pay shipping- care to guess shipping fees on a lead acid battery? $30 in my case, for a product that was DOA within 1 minute of plugging it in. We’ll see how long the second one lasts…
December 27th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Just got rid of my belkin router for a NETGEAR ohhhhhhhhhhh so good. When i set up m belkin a couple of years ago it took like 2 hours, NETGEAR took like 2 minutes. I can easly rename my network, switch between NAT on/off (for xbox live) connect with mac and pc and ipod touch and i’ve never been happier. The reason I replaced the belkin was because for some reason i couldn’t connect 2+ things wirelessly when I had a password on and my ipod touch didn’t even work when a password was enabled. Now I can have my lovely wpa password and feel safe and secure and relaxed.
Buy NETGEAR you will not be dissappointed, i just bought one today and it was the best decision I ever made (in terms of networking and the likes)
I don’t work for NETGEAR btw
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:20 am
i brought a belkin for my laptop and ps3 the frikin thing jus gave up on me it freezed wen i downloading they ,, why do they sell such perthetic thing to us fukin shit
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:35 pm
belkin sucks do not buy it. the thinking of belking makes me want to brake it into pieces. belking is garbage dont buy it ok. if you buy it your a loser. you are warned belkins router suckssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
January 10th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Belkin = SH1T
Tried install Belkin USB Wireless Adapter - the installation software has totally messed up Windows XP - The desktop freezes after it loads - I cant even get into SAFE MODE!
AVOID BELKIN USB ADAPTER - DO NOT BUY THIS SH1T
Unbelievable - now i will have to re-load Windows XP and ALL my programs, this will take a few days!
Totally pissed off - their support is crap too (phone and email)
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:06 am
Personally I avoid Belkin like the plague. Having just quit pcwoe I can tell you that there are major targets for the sale of belkin, norton and their extended warranty over any other product.
I’ve had a Linksys router for about 4 years and have never had a problem with it, whereas my g/f has had both the HellHub (BT HomeHub) and a Hellkin Wireless G router and had nothing but problems with bother.
I tried to get a number of Belkin wifi cards working under linux - I now have no hair left!
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:18 pm
I bought me a belkin router for 30 dollars USD.
Thought it was a good deal, and it worked for a few days. (The one mentioned in the first post) I also bought a USB adapter.
both died. Called tech support, waited, and waited, and waited, and waited. Got a replacement.
Used said replacement. It died.
Called again, they ignored me. (about a year of dealing with these problems)
a few minutes ago, after dragging the thing out again to get a workgroup share working, It wouldn’t even do that.
I grew angry. Unplugged everything, plugged it back into another router and threw the belkin router as hard as I could onto the floor.
It broke in two.
Worse, I think it’ll still work..
February 20th, 2008 at 9:32 am
I work in tech support. when people call with a connection issue - i already know its going to be belkin or smc. They ruin my day.
February 21st, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I brought one from GlobalPC, the pile of shit worked for about a month and crashed, so I went back to globalpc and got another one, the fucking thing keeps dropping the internet every 24hours or so, so I carefully and sadistically pulled each play out of the back of it, hot wired it directly to 240v watched it melt and ran over it with my car, it’s now on it’s way back to Belkin, happy birthday mother fuckers!
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:00 pm
This Belkin router is the biggest piece of crap I have ever seen. I think it needs a flamethrower put to it. I don’t know why i’m even writing this because it will most likely drop the internet connection anyway.
March 10th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Belkin routers suck bigger than anything I’ve seen as of yet, you can’t connect to WoW with one or network a printer, after two days of frustration (I’ve got A+, Net+) I beat it to death like a rented mule, felt great. Now I’m going to wise up and get a Cisco.
March 26th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Yea, my F5D7230-4 is a replacement for a CHEAP Linksys that I had and subsequently fried (totally my fault). The Linksys was like 20 bucks more that this Belkin piece of crap. If I could go back in time I would definitely spend the extra 20 bucks to get something that WORKS. This is a wireless router, but I have it hard wired to my desktop - it still drops dead every few minutes. DO NOT BUY BELKIN!
April 20th, 2008 at 1:22 am
I’ve tried to set up three belkin networks and find them impossible to secure. belkin need to improve their manual, and support. simplify please.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
I wish I would have run accross this site before I bought this P.O.S.! It’s nothing but a big ass headache…I’ve been trying to figure out how to connect it for hours now, but it says it’s missing the driver–THE HELL!! I see from reading this that I just bought the crapiest sorriest excuse for a wireless connection and I may as well throw in the towel now and not waste any more time. Sorry ass company…..
April 30th, 2008 at 8:38 am
got a piece of s**t belkin wireless router hooked up to my adsl internet, it d/c’s every 15 seconds or so and lags me like a bastard. i have tried it on every channel there is and it still does it.
gg Belkin, you deserved that lawsuit.
May 4th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
How incredibly naive of me to think that setting up wi-fi with a Belkin product would be a relatively simple procedure, heck maybe even an enjoyable one. Belkin you’ve just robbed me of around 5 hours of my life. I want them back you bastards.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Belkin sucks, Linksys sucks, so far I have found happiness with D-Link. Faster and more stable than either. When buying a Linksys product remember: It will only last one day after the warrenty expires.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
DO NOT BUY BELKIN… the prob. is that the whole electronics world basically sucks (unless it’s a Mac product). They suck up our money on broken or ineffective products, give crappy customer service and then waste our time trying to get the issue resolved. I have wasted so much of my life on electronic woes. Belkin is another stick on the fire. We need a revolution against these crappy companies who think they can suck us dry, pay their executives millions and then ship the manufacturing and customer service overseas. BELKIN SUCKS!
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:42 am
Their “Windows Easy Transfer” cable & software crashed my PC big time! Had to get an I.T. engineer to fix it (£££). Belkin didn’t want to know, and many weeks later, I’m still trying to even acknowledge I exist! Customer “support” - don’t make me laugh. Technical “Support” - sent me 1 email, to which I immediately replied - Nothing from them ever since. This has been going on for weeks. All I know is: “I’LL NEVER BUY ANYTHING MADE BY BELKIN EVER AGAIN AND RECOMMEND EVERYONE ELSE TO DO THE SAME”.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:48 am
As regards Belkin Wireless routers, my home is within wireless reach of at least 3 of them, and I notice “NOT A SNGLE ONE IS SECURE”! All the others I can reach are o2, Virgin, and a few odds & s**ds, but they are all secure. I suspect some of these non-secure users don’t realise the risks….
July 15th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Belkin, Sucks.
It keeps disconnecting and its really slow, im sitting next to my router and it still cuts out, the connection is 2/5 EVEN Holding the laptop on top of it!!
Then, its the PSP, it connects like a slug, nuff said.
July 17th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Stupid piece of shit router worked fine for an hour the first night I got it. Woke up the next morning expecting to do my morning routine, reading the local newspapers on my laptop computer. THE MOTHERFUCKER WOULDN’T CONNECT!! No amount of configuration would make the bastard connect. The DSL modem was fine when hard wired into either the laptop or the desktop, but the motherfucking router wouldn’t route. Belkin Routers suck!
August 9th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
expansive, nothing special, poor configuration flexibility, performance suck.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
2 Routers, (a 50 euro and a 200 euro one) - both disconnect and overload with 3 computers browsing the internet. I have 2 identical desktop wireless cards, one is extremely slow right next to the router and the other one disconnects randomly and requires a restart to fix it.
BELKIN DOES NOT SUCK>>>THEY ARE A CHEAP, SHIT AND FUCKING LAME COMPANY.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
I agree with all of you belkin sucks!!!, in every way, no more needed to be said.
August 30th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
This ridiculous peace of shitty shiny plastic almost put me in to a mental institution. With two Macs an two PC in the house making a decent home network is impossible and frustrating. The WiFi will work only for the PC and the only way to connect to my MacBook is Ethernet Arrrrrrrrrrgh! And this is suposed to be a router made in late 2007. An MIMO N1 router have a smaller range than a 4 year old Netgear 54Mbps.Just 5 meters. No walls whatsoever. And don’t get me started on their latest,”best” and “easy to use” “Plug and just Pay with no Play” network USB hub.
Belkin= Waste of money, Waste of time and danger for your mental health.