Belkin 54g wifi router now just £28.69!

Simon_B_5

I bought one of these routers about a month ago and took it back after about a week due to the damn thing kept locking up and needed resetting. I coulddn't be bothered with getting another one and risking it happening again so i just paid an extra £16 and got a Linksys WRT54GS. A much better router in my opinion.

mp7125

RightRevBod wrote:

Price now up to £34.99. Why didn't I get one yesterday as I intended to?

Back down to £28.69!

buggu

mp7125 wrote:

Back down to £28.69!

lol just my luck i got one for my brother on sunday for the original price.

idiaz

sandybrag wrote:

When you say it "de-powers" do you mean it physically switches off?.

I dont know why a router would power itself off as it the sort of thing that would have to start up in a instant if required, and this would cause more problems that it was worth. The router itself consume virtually no power, so again, why would it timeout, switch off, or go into any power saving mode.

Ive actually bought this router too. Had it running since Friday, had a PC hooked up to it since that time, checked again this morning, all working perfectly. It even found 4 additional wireless networks in the vacinity, all unsecured i might add!.

Dont know if its worth mentioning, but have you checked the power saving features on your laptop?. It power saving it switched on, that could cause problems as the laptop goes into power saving mode and comes out of it again?.

Thanks Sandybrag

I guess 'loses connection' would be a better term. The modem light on the router stay on(green) but the power indicator goes OFF and the port lights also change to yellow.

Its not the power saving mode as it happens routinely when I am using the network from the laptop, specially if I am downloading.

Simon_B_5

This is exactly the same problem i had and no matter how many times i reset it or upgraded the firmware it continued to do it. This is why i took it back.

twe

i got mine through the post... going to swap the usb stick at pcworld for the 4000 model... i have the 3000 model....

Dee140157

I had to take one back to pc world and got a replacement. As yet I can' even get the replacement running. I woner if this is because I secured the original network. Do I need to go back onto the belkin site and unlock before I can put a new one in its place to see if it will work? I can see an imminent upgrade happening! MAybe that is the ploy? Get us keen on wireless but sell us ones that don't work well so we buy better ones?

Reepacheep

Belkin "Depowering" Problems

Reference comments on this, see posts 45 (16.02.06) and 49 (17.02.06) on this thread which may (or may not!!) help. My replacement router continues to work well.

amwork

I had the powering down problems too

(link removed as it causing me more problems now than before) is a link that I found useful
I upgraded the firmware and as far as I can see it has been ok

Hope this helps

Please ignore it just crashed again :mad:

Jimble

Now over 40 quid...boo!