Belkin F5D8232UK4 N1 Vision

rscosworth · 3 Nov 2007 at 12:24

Guys,

Im considering buying this router, ive just purchased a house 3 doors down from my parents and i plan to allow them to use my internet connection (no legality comments here, i dont need to know!)

If anyone owns this router i would like some information from you;
*What sort of distance/coverage do you get
*Can the unit be wall mounted?
*Where exactly on the unit are the RJ45 ports
*Your comments/opinions

Before anyone reccomends a different router i need gigabit ports for my wired network as i do huge file transfers between my media center and server.

Thanks

adam1v · 16 Nov 2007 at 12:20

hey RS, did you ever get this router in the end? id like to ask you the same questions!

rscosworth · 16 Nov 2007 at 14:44

sorry didnt get it, stick with my 54g with gigabit for the time being.

ash7jar · 23 Nov 2007 at 15:26

Yer i need to know info on this one as well, as im thinking about buying it

Is there anyone out there with this router!

ash7jar · 23 Nov 2007 at 15:27

Ops double post

ash7jar · 23 Nov 2007 at 21:17

well this said and done it would seem that no one knows anything about this one.

Or no one owns one

James J · 25 Nov 2007 at 23:58

fot this router myself and have had it for a few months now. Got 3 pcs connected to it via wireless using N cards and I can walk down my street and still get a good signal on my macbook with it lol.

Theres 4 ethernet ports on the back of the router and the antena can be pointed in any direction. As far as im aware it cannot be wall mounted though but I'll double check tomorrow just in case.

Done quite abit of gaming on it and sending large amounts of music to my networked buffalo harddrive which is also connected directly to the router itself and to be honest ive not had any real major problems with it. Theres also a new firmware for it which makes it N2 draft compliant and for the money its awesome.

Daveyboyuk · 27 Nov 2007 at 13:02

How reliable is the 802.11n? I have netgear equipment with draft-n and it's flakey to say the least!

RKnight · 27 Nov 2007 at 14:14

Iv just bought this router, All set-up, turn the laptop on and... no stronger than the G... guess i better buy the N card :rolleyes:

Il be able to give feedback once i have the notebook N card, i really hope its worth it.

James J · 27 Nov 2007 at 15:53

well you cant exactly expect n speeds when using a g card hehe. definately worth it

RKnight · 29 Nov 2007 at 10:02

James J said:
well you cant exactly expect n speeds when using a g card hehe. definately worth it

Yeah i know, thye didnt have any cards in stock, but i went ahead and bought the router anyway, still got the better range with my G card though.

Could someone explain what the difference is between the Express Card and the Notebook Card. Whatever one i get will be for a laptop.

Looks like the notebook card has a better range, alhougth the wording in the spec is 'up to 1,400ft'.

RKnight · 30 Nov 2007 at 11:42

anyone know?

Thebug · 30 Nov 2007 at 15:10

RKnight said:
Could someone explain what the difference is between the Express Card and the Notebook Card. Whatever one i get will be for a laptop.

Looks like the notebook card has a better range, alhougth the wording in the spec is 'up to 1,400ft'.

$20

Seriously though when i had the old n1 belkin router and the laptop n1 card there was no difference in speed it still connected at 54kbs.

mrk · 6 Jul 2009 at 11:38

After seeing no real joy from the D-Link DIR655 and some compatibility with some of my wireless N clients I've been looking at this router and so far it looks good. I assume anyone that's got it has not had any freezes or dropouts after running torrents/uploading to youtube etc?

Would be GREAT to find out thanks as I can put my 655 on MM