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Belkin router not working

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  • 07-09-2012 7:30pm
    #1
    Howlin1
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭


    I have a Belkin model F6D4230-4 V1 N150 router and it's not working anymore. It's only 2 years old. It was working until Wednesday and now only the power button is lighting up. I have tried resetting the router. Changing the ethernet and power cables. Plugging the ethernet cable into my laptop and the internet works. When I plug the ethernet cable into my laptop and the router, it says it is identifying it, but then after a minute the connection drops (so I can't update the firmware or do anything like that).
    The only light that will show up on the router is the power button, no matter what else is plugged in.

    What's wrong with it and how can it be fixed (hitting it doesn't work :P)?


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    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    Howlin1 wrote: »
    What's wrong with it?

    It's a Belkin, that's was wrong with it. Wouldn't touch their stuff with a 12 ft barge pole.


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    Howlin1
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Howlin1


    Torqay wrote: »
    It's a Belkin, that's was wrong with it. Wouldn't touch their stuff with a 12 ft barge pole.
    *Hands a 13 ft barge pole*


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    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    Well, if you reset the router already (by that you mean the button in the pinhole?) and it doesn't work then chances are that it is just toast.

    And Belkin products aren't exactly known for quality...


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    Howlin1
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Howlin1


    But there is a different one that we are using atm and that is a good 3/4 year old. The only reason we changed from that one is because my fathers phone won't pick it up (yet mine dos).


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    Dude111
    Registered Users Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    Torqay wrote:
    It's a Belkin, that's was wrong with it. Wouldn't touch their stuff with a 12 ft barge pole.
    We have a belkin upstairs and it keeps freezing! (Have to unplug the power and reset it)

    IT ISNT THE ROUTER,ITS THE CABLE COMPANY!!!! -- THIER STUPID LEVELS GO UP AND DOWN SO MUCH WHICH CAUSES THE ROUTER TO TRANSMIT TOO HIGH AND IT LOCKS UP AS A RESULT!! (I had a toshiba that did the same thing)


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    PogMoThoin
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    Dude111 wrote: »
    Torqay wrote:
    It's a Belkin, that's was wrong with it. Wouldn't touch their stuff with a 12 ft barge pole.
    We have a belkin upstairs and it keeps freezing! (Have to unplug the power and reset it)

    IT ISNT THE ROUTER,ITS THE CABLE COMPANY!!!! -- THIER STUPID LEVELS GO UP AND DOWN SO MUCH WHICH CAUSES THE ROUTER TO TRANSMIT TOO HIGH AND IT LOCKS UP AS A RESULT!! (I had a toshiba that did the same thing)


    Stupid levels go up and down, transmit too high, WTF are you in about? Stop spouting utter nonsense.

    It's a Belkin, it's a piece of junk. A Toshiba is a piece of junk also. If you want a decent router get one by a company known to specialise in networking products, Linksys, Netgear, Mikrotik etc. Not some company that make cheap as chips routers, the ones the arseholes in PC World promote because they have the most markup from.


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    Dude111
    Registered Users Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    Im not buddy im telling you WHY THE EQUIPTMENT locks up! (They expect the levels to be WHERE THEY SHOULD BE and if they arent they have problems)


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    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    Dude111 wrote: »
    Im not buddy im telling you WHY THE EQUIPTMENT locks up! (They expect the levels to be WHERE THEY SHOULD BE and if they arent they have problems)

    I still have no clue what you're on about :confused:
    What levels?


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    Dude111
    Registered Users Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    Signal levels coming from the ISP icon7.gif


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    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,726 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Dude111 wrote: »
    We have a belkin upstairs and it keeps freezing! (Have to unplug the power and reset it)

    IT ISNT THE ROUTER,ITS THE CABLE COMPANY!!!! -- THIER STUPID LEVELS GO UP AND DOWN SO MUCH WHICH CAUSES THE ROUTER TO TRANSMIT TOO HIGH AND IT LOCKS UP AS A RESULT!! (I had a toshiba that did the same thing)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8XSo0etBC4


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    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,006 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Belkin are junk, the internal hardware is usually ok (Ralink chipsets they usually use I think) but the firmware is absolutely appauling. Theres plenty of other mid-range choices like TP Link that are miles ahead of Belkin. I had to give up trying to configure a Belkin to an Eircom DSL connection a few years ago, just wouldn't sync at all regardless of the correct settings...

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    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,726 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Customer [Holding Netgear and Belkin N600 routers]: "Which one is better?"
    Me: ...
    Colleague: ...
    Me: [To Colleague] I know what I'll say, but I want to hear your answer first.
    Colleague: Personally, I like Cisco's stuff.
    Me: I'm more a fan of Netgear myself.
    Me: ....[To Customer] Note carefully how nobody said Belkin.


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