belkin wireless cable router

Hi All,
Got a friend with Virgin internet (exNTL) via a cable modem. Works
fine but having problems with a Belkin wireless router. Connecting
this gives about 4 minutes of active internet, after which all
activity ceases - it stops transmitting wirelessly, and a wired
connection to the router loses internet access, too.
I'm thinking a faulty unit at the moment, but wondered if anyone had
come across any firmware issues etc with these units?
Ric

ric wrote:
> Hi All,
> Got a friend with Virgin internet (exNTL) via a cable modem. Works
> fine but having problems with a Belkin wireless router. Connecting
> this gives about 4 minutes of active internet, after which all
> activity ceases - it stops transmitting wirelessly, and a wired
> connection to the router loses internet access, too.
> I'm thinking a faulty unit at the moment, but wondered if anyone had
> come across any firmware issues etc with these units?

Are you absolutely sure that this isn't a software issue? I ran into a
very similar problem with a Zonealarm remnant a few weeks ago.


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John Jordan

In article <(E-Mail Removed). com>, ric
says...
> Hi All,
> Got a friend with Virgin internet (exNTL) via a cable modem. Works
> fine but having problems with a Belkin wireless router. Connecting
> this gives about 4 minutes of active internet, after which all
> activity ceases - it stops transmitting wirelessly, and a wired
> connection to the router loses internet access, too.
> I'm thinking a faulty unit at the moment, but wondered if anyone had
> come across any firmware issues etc with these units?
> Ric
>
It's a Belkin. They're shite. I gave up after having 3 die in as many
months. Get a Netgear one.


--
Conor

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.........

ric wrote:
> Got a friend with Virgin internet (exNTL) via a cable modem. Works
> fine but having problems with a Belkin wireless router. Connecting
> this gives about 4 minutes of active internet, after which all
> activity ceases - it stops transmitting wirelessly, and a wired
> connection to the router loses internet access, too.
> I'm thinking a faulty unit at the moment, but wondered if anyone had
> come across any firmware issues etc with these units?

That sounds unusual. I'd suspect a fault, though it's worth checking the
usual things: is your firmware out of date, are you blocking access to the
router configuration/firmware update features from outside your network, etc.

FWIW, having recently set up a home network with various wireless
networking stuff from Belkin, I will not go near their stuff again. It
seems to be hopelessly unreliable, and needlessly difficult to configure.
Their previously good reputation in my household (for other types of
equipment) is now mud.

I think the best suggestion I heard from their tech support people was to
set our entire network to WEP encryption (i.e., no security at all), just
because the wireless range extender we wanted to use to access our
networked printer couldn't support WPA!

Cheers,
Chris

On May 17, 7:10 pm, Conor <conor.tur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <1179392472.042736.247...@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups. com>, ric
> says...> Hi All,
> > Got a friend with Virgin internet (exNTL) via a cable modem. Works
> > fine but having problems with a Belkin wireless router. Connecting
> > this gives about 4 minutes of active internet, after which all
> > activity ceases - it stops transmitting wirelessly, and a wired
> > connection to the router loses internet access, too.
> > I'm thinking a faulty unit at the moment, but wondered if anyone had
> > come across any firmware issues etc with these units?
> > Ric
>
> It's a Belkin. They're shite. I gave up after having 3 die in as many
> months. Get a Netgear one.
>
> --
> Conor
>
> Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
> until you hear them speak.........

I am coming to the same conclusion after trawling t'interweb. Going
to see if Belkin will replace under warranty (I actually bought it 2nd
hand) and otherwise toss in the bin. It's definitely a hardware
issue.

Ric

In article <(E-Mail Removed) .com>, ric
says...
> On May 17, 7:10 pm, Conor <conor.tur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In article <1179392472.042736.247...@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups. com>, ric
> > says...> Hi All,
> > > Got a friend with Virgin internet (exNTL) via a cable modem. Works
> > > fine but having problems with a Belkin wireless router. Connecting
> > > this gives about 4 minutes of active internet, after which all
> > > activity ceases - it stops transmitting wirelessly, and a wired
> > > connection to the router loses internet access, too.
> > > I'm thinking a faulty unit at the moment, but wondered if anyone had
> > > come across any firmware issues etc with these units?
> > > Ric
> >
> > It's a Belkin. They're shite. I gave up after having 3 die in as many
> > months. Get a Netgear one.
> >
> > --
> > Conor
> >
> > Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
> > until you hear them speak.........
>
> I am coming to the same conclusion after trawling t'interweb. Going
> to see if Belkin will replace under warranty (I actually bought it 2nd
> hand) and otherwise toss in the bin. It's definitely a hardware
> issue.
>
You'll have little problem in getting them to replace it under
warranty. Downside is that what they'll send isn't necessarily going to
be any better.

Just as an aside, it's only their Routers that are shite. I've never
had a problem with their USB or PCI Wifi cards.


--
Conor

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.........