Belkin F9K1123 AC1200 Dual Band AC Wireless Route

It was in the box container wrapped well it came with easy instructions. Hooked it up to my modem and it worked with in minutes . Strong signal and guest wi-fi as well. Great price, easy assembling and fast working. Great for an apartment and great price for students. Not expensive and easy assembling. Great for students and other who don't want to spend all that money and it work great!! I have not used tech support yet that's why it not a 5 star. But I have not had any problems since I got it a week ago.

I bought it for $70 and use this same model several years in San Diego...moved to Sacramento and my Xfinify Modem/WiFi was not strong enough to reach my garage office. Bought same model for $17.-00 and I love it. Not the most powerful of Wi Fi's but I get a great signal from it!

2nd Review 4 stars: Received replacement router 3Apr2019. Belkin Customer Service walked me through firmware update and pairing my devices. Everything took about 1 hour, but for $19.99 & 2 year warranty & Belkin customer support, I am a happy camper. Will see if router needs resetting and how it operates in the next few weeks. If all is good, will update my 4 stars to 5. I gave Amazon another chance because the Belkin customer service was amazing. I returned for an exchange and received replacement 24hrs later. Strangely the router was not in an amazon box that obscured the contents. The Belkin router box had an address sticker on it and was left by my front door without them ringing the bell. What is up with amazon delivery lately? This is 3rd delivery issue in last few months.1st Router/1st review 1 star: Out of box I could not get the router to connect with the computer/modem but could access the router dashboard. I reset username, etc. but took a bit of troubleshooting with my computer & settings to get it working but only 2.5 MHz was showing up and not the 5MHz. Since I did not understand difference between 2.5 vs 5.0 I called Belkin customer service (Bcs). In short 2.5MHz is good long distance but slower (other rooms away from router); 5MHz good short distance and faster (in same room as router). We got the router working, but then my devices kept bouncing in and out of wifi and back to 2.5MHz. Turns out router required firmware update. Bcs talked me through the update, but then the computer could not find/recognize the IP address for the router and I had neither internet or wifi. So we hardwired the internet connection to the computer, downloaded firmware update direct from the Belkin website and re-set the router (reset button on back) and spent 1 hour and 34 min on phone with Belkin trouble shooting the installation, settings, etc. Final test showed binary is error which translated to "Dead out of the box". Belkin said to return to Amazon for another and to make sure it is not a refurbished unit but new. Once I receive the new router, run the download of the firmware update and restart everything, it should work (unless I get another dud). They said the reason the router is so cheap is because the firmware is outdated, but if the router is otherwise good, the update should work. I am giving Amazon another chance because the Belkin customer service was amazing, and the router has a 2 year warranty that they will honor once I exceed the Amazon return window. I returned for an exchange, will update if there are any issues with the exchange or with the replacement. I am back to using my Belkin N300 until I can switch out. But after this Belkin customer service experience...I will only buy Belkin routers.

Update: After 9 months it no longer functions. I just get the message no internet available. I used obe of the extra Ethernet ports for my firestick but the Ethernet ports on the device doesn't work either. It worked well for the 9 months I had it with a few hiccups the first couple if weeks but not worth the purchase for less than a year of use.When it works it's good but I've only had hooked up for 3 days and it's now constantly disconnecting my devices and the performance is really slow. My speed test often coming in under 1 Mbps. It's not my company, my home internet is extremely fast and my old box I just had for much too long so needed to replace. This is just not the one for me I believe. I'm going to invest a little more money in a more reliable router.Update:I have to say I had troubles with it for a couple of days when I first did the review and only had the box for a week so it was frustrating. After those couple of days of problems the box started working really well. The speed is great and the connection has been extremely reliable. I don't have to deal with the signal randomly dropping on me. I am, for now at least, happy with the purchase because for the price its performance is impressive. Maybe those couple of days of issues were just a fluke and the router may be a little gem I stumbled on. . Since it's only been a month I only added 2 stars but will edit again after having it longer because I don't know how it will do long term.

This is my second Belkin. The first one lasted around 10 years(which it still works just has to be rebooted several times a day.) It started to have to be rebooted a lot so we bought a different brand because they didn't have Belkin in the store. It only lasted about 7 months. We hooked the old one back up until this one came in the mail. It was easy to set up, plug to modem and electricity put password in what you want to have wifi and it works great. The wifi is strong all over the house. I have not had any problems and would recommend Belkin to everyone.