I'll vouch for the fact that wireless can be tricky at times. Often it's just a hit-or-miss. Linksys-brand routers still costs a bundle compared to other competitors. Belkin's own F5D7230-4 uses similar hardware. But unfortunately whatever changes they've made to it was for the worse. As a router, it worked flawlessly. Its wireless functions worked w/o a hitch. This is all fine and dandy until at some random point it starts to slow down to a crawl. Existing connections such as a telnet, sshd, AIM, MSN, or IRC, they still function normally. When attempting to establish a connection or even try to resolve a hostname, it wouldn't work or it'd be too slow that my web browser would time out. The real kicker to that? I have a Linux box acting as a DNS cache server in the network. The only 'solution' to that problem is to reboot the router. However, that gets tiresome after a while. I've had it for just a little over a month and got too fed up to deal with the problems. So I reinstated my Linux box as a router and set the Belkin router as a WAP.
Linksys may have the bigger market share. But the higher pricetag one has to pay to get their famed WRT54G router is a boon to those wanting to save some dough. I'm not sure what the quality is like for other competitors. But I wish I could try them all and make my choices based on how well it functions and what features it has.
Belkin, Linksys, Netgear, SMC, D-Link, and whatever other brands there are, I can't tell which one is better. There are horror stories and there are success stories. It's hard to filter out just which one is more worth the money spent. I'm disappointed in the fact that Belkin hasn't done anything since I've reported their adminstrative bug. But since we're all doing this on trial & error, what choice do we have?
