Odd issue with Belkin router and DSL modem

[MillCreek]

I have a Belkin 802/11 b/g wireless router that is about four years old. Recently, I have begun to have to reboot it several times a day.  I consider wireless routers to be essentially disposable, since I only get a few years out of them.  I read some reviews on Amazon, and went to Wal-Mart today and bought a Belkin N150 wireless router.

Well, neither the connection wizard or me manually entering commands to 192.168.1.1 could get the router and the modem to talk to one another.  And I am reasonably savvy in setting up networks. Frontier/Verizon is my ISP, and I am running Verizon's Westell 6110 DSL modem. I reconnected my old Belkin and everything is fine.  I have the new Belkin packed up to return to Wal-Mart tomorrow, but this sure puzzles me.  I can imagine only that there must be some hardware or software incompatibility between the new Belkin and the Westell.  Although I am interested to see a lot of connectivity complaints about the new Belkin at NewEgg. Maybe I will take store credit and try a Netgear or Linksys.

[Jim147]

I don't remember the model number but it was a Belkin N150 from Walmart that I was helping someone set up about two and a half months ago.

It had preset security that wouldn't let me get it setup. There was an option to wipe the preset security and then I could set it up.

Not much help, I know. But the last couple of weeks have fried my mind a little. And then there is that whole memory going thing.

jim

[Azrael256]

I bought one for my wife's grandmother around Christmas.  I think I had it running inside ten minutes.  I'm really surprised you had trouble.  I was rather impressed with its simplicity.  I was thinking of buying a pair of them to get better coverage in my house, so I do want to know if yours was defective.

I did have to kick the modem a few times to get it to talk to the new device.  That happened with the previous router, too.  It's some kind of port security on the modem that doesn't reset on the first reboot like the manual said it would.