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I had a Belkin N+ router since 2007 that worked great I purchased from Walmart and never had a problem, but it was outdated and I needed a better router. I had such a positive experience with my Belkin router I was pleased to pick one of these up as Costco for under $100.00 and it was easy to install using the same http address I had for my old router and did not have to install the CD. I had high hopes, but had to call support due to my modem not being recognized as being connected to the internet and spent hours on the phone only to find out, from a supervisor, that because my particular modem will not be properly recognized and I will not get the blue light that signals all is well and the light would remain amber. I was told this after hours of useless troubleshooting by techs that simply went through the same script each call. I could go on and on about the service, but you should get the point. OK I can live with an amber light, but the video stream from my Dish sling adapter constantly froze and dropped and it worked fine with my old Belkin router. There are no lights other than the power light that will either be blue or amber and no power button. I live in the mountains in Arizona and sometimes the electric goes out that was never a problem for my old Belkin, but every time I lost power the modem would not work again. I tried to reset per support and tried everything to get three of the four to reset but to no avail and they all had to be returned. One of the four never worked. I did some research and bought the only other modem Costco had at the store in Prescott which is the one I wanted, the Netgear 3800, and I could not be happier. I was reluctant to switch brands, but I had no choice and I used to recommend Belkin to all my friends because of the old router, but never again. As with many companies and brands that I have had very good luck with, Belkin has turned to producing junk over quality. I would also like to thank cnet for their recommendation for the Netgear router I now own and it was also posted on the box the router was recommended by cnet. I WILL NEVER AGAIN BUY ANYTHING FROM BELKIN NO MATTER HOW INEXPENSIVE IT IS.
Take my advice and do not waste your time with this router. When I returned the last Belkin to Costco an bought the Netgear, the Belkin router had been repackaged and I looked at it hoping it was a newer version and the bugs were fixed, but it was only a newer more colorful box with no revisions.
I usually do not take the time to write this much about a product, but I have to drive 40 miles round trip to Costco and I am only trying to save someone else the awful experience I had to go through. I am not recommending anything, but only not recommending and warning anyone who will listen to my experiences with this piece of junk they labeled a router. I would also suggest to try to use it for a week before you review it and see what happens if the power goes out.

Works great right out of the box. The software was a breeze to use and all my wireless devices run great with it. I've only had it for a week, but so far I would recommend to anyone.

We've had good luck with our new N750. It replaced a slower N150. Regarding amber light issue some folks are having, it could be the IP lease expired from your internet service provider. Try shutting off all computers using the router, unplug both the modem and the router, wait 10 minutes or so, plug modem back in, turn on computer your router is wired to, turn on router and wa-la, it should work. This stuff is in Belkin.com support. Going forward, shut down each computer when it won't be used for a number of hours.

By far the biggest most frustrating piece of tech I have ever owned.

DO NOT THINK ABOUT GETTING THIS THING. STAY FAR AWAY. I've owned probably 5-6 wireless routers, set up numerous more, put dd-wrt on a few of them, worked in IT for 5 years, and this is the most unreliable piece of garbage I've ever used.

If you enable security, your connection will stop responding every 5 minutes or so. on everything on your network. so don't plan on having a secure wireless network if you want to use this.

If you disable security, then anytime you try to connect a media device (like a bluray player, etc) then your connection will stop responding. on everything on your network. so don't plan on conneciting any media devices to this.

If this thing was within reach, it would be smashed into a thousand pieces, because you would be getting much more satisfaction from destroying this thing than you will get from using it.

that is all.

Don't be fooled by the curvy look. It can't even stand up right when you hook an ethernet cable to it due to its cheap light weight.

Worst of all, once the amber light is on, you are dead in the water no matter what you do. The reset button doesn't do anything but wiping out all your settings.

It comes with a self-healing feature. I don't know what it does but you have to schedule it to run at a certain time. Mine was set to run at 3:30am every Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat and Sun. But what a joke it is - I still have the amber light of death that I can't get rid of.