Video Driver Keeps Crashing
Belkin F5D8230-four Wireless 802.11x Pre-N Router
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- LAN Ports – N/A
- WAN Ports – N/A
- Warranty – Lifetime Limited Warranty
- LEDs – Yes
video driver keeps crashing
Connecting the Belkin N1 Wireless Router to your cable or DSL modem lets you share your broadband Net account with all your networked personal computers. Now you can exchange documents, share resources, and distribute significant video and music files during your network inside of a greater assortment, at more rapidly speeds. N1 gives the easiest setup ever, and our built-in Network Status Show lets you see your connections functioning. Every icon represents a network component, so you can easily keep track of your connec
Belkin F5D8230-four Wireless 802.11x Pre-N Router
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So Easy, It Was Scary,
This router was so easy to install, it was scary! After years of living in “Linksys hell” with their “b” router, version 2, I decided to take a chance on a new, highly-rated router. Out of the box, I had the Belkin installed and working immediately in 10 minutes or less!! I’m just an average user, but I highly recommend this router to anyone who is thinking of switching to wireless networking in their home. Well worth the money to upgrade.
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|Great range, but disappointing throughput and reliability,
I loved the Belkin at first but as I got to know it, I found this item wanting greatly. I read about similar bad experiences online — just google search Belkin pre-N crashes — with the Belkin Pre-N router and with the Linksys WRT54GX (essentially the same router, both with identical chipsets using the Broadcom BCM4704 processor). I had been having all manner of problems with my Belkin Pre-N for some time. So I finally decided to rate this product negatively. As an aside, I have just ordered a Netgear RangeMax NEXT Wireless Router with Gigabit Ethernet from Amazon to replace it after reviewing a bunch of positive reviews on the new slew of routers based on Airgo’s Gen 3 chipsets.
I loved the Belkin at the start. It had amazing range in the two environments I deployed it in. In fact, when I bought it, I took my laptop outside and walked 300 feet into the park adjacent to my house before I lost the signal. It has amazing range and no dead spots unlike the D-Link DI-624M I upgraded from.
But, ultimately, the Belkin has been trouble for various reasons. First, it really never provided the throughput boost I needed. It averaged 1.8MBps (14.4mbps) on the wireless side (with the paired Pre-N card) and about 7MBps (56mbps) on the wired side. PCMag reviewed it saying they got 40mbps paired with the Pre-N card. Then there’s the wired side. Nowadays, all decent new computers including my laptop have had gigabit Ethernet as standard for a couple of years now. I don’t know why these wireless routers don’t provide gigabit wired as standard.
But, my real problem came from the constant crashing. Today for example, I was streaming iTunes to an Airport running Firefox and transfering large files via pcAnywhere on the Network and….boom, crash, dead wireless link. I couldn’t get the thing to communicate wirelessly to anything on the network, so I had to go and manually restart. What a pain. This happens multiple times daily and has become a real bore.
So, finally I figured out where the problem lies. It’s all on the wireless side. I ran some heavy simultaneous traffic through the router for 5 minutes today (large file transfer via pcAnywhere, Internet usage, iTunes wirelss transfer and streaming video from my server). The router crashed. I couldn’t connect to other computers on the network from my laptop, I had zero Internet access, and iTunes stopped streaming. Then I transferred part of the traffic load to the wired ports and tried the same experiment. The router crashed again within 5 minutes. But, this time I checked the computers on the wired side and they worked flawlessly, everything was humming on all cylinders, file transfer, Internet access, you name it.
So, my diagnosis is that the chipsets in these models based on Airgo True Mimo Gen 1 cannot handle heavy wireless traffic. They simply crash the wireless side of the router after a point without affecting their wired routing ability. The DHCP lists are still operable with the IP addresses reserved as before, but there is simply no access to the wireless router clients while the wiredclients remain unaffected.
I’ve decided to give up after months of this type of unreliability and am going to move to a model based on Gen 3 True Mimo with Gigabit Ethernet. From what I have read they have the same or better range, better wireless throughput than wired fast ethernet (100mbps) and gigabit wired ports. I just hope they can handle the traffic. Only time will tell.
As for the Belkin Pre-N Router, I am extremely disappointed and would rate it 2 stars out of 5. Good range, mderate throughput. But it simply can’t handle heavy wireless traffic loads.
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|If you need to speed or range go for it,
Here’s the situation, if you need to expand your wireless coverage on a G. network or B. then this router will do the trick. Have been using this for more than a week now and the throughput is amazing, superfast. All my G. signals are pegged!
N. products will not be out for about a year. So if you drop the cash on this bad boy. You’ll have some time before that standard comes out. And it will improve your reception of any networks you have up and running now. One computer I had running on G. in another house from the router was low about 50% reception is now running at 100% and never fluctuates.
So instead of buying a range booster. I just bought this bad boy.
I still haven’t got it to work with my Linksys network storage drive, but I’ll figure that out eventually. (This problem has been fixed). What I had to do was change the IP from 192.168 2.1 to 192.168.1.1 and a storage Link showed up fine!
Overall, I’m very happy with this product I bought this because of the fact that the N will not be out for a year or more so if I invest in this now. It’s not like it will be quickly replaced.
Peace out
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