Belkin N1 Vision Router Rocks

I set up a wi-fi hotspot for a private campground. The office-lodge houses a full kitchen, bathrooms, game and meeting rooms all on one level totaling about 3000 square feet. The N1 Vision absolutely floods the building with signal despite numerous walls, appliances, furnishings, etc. It floods the parking lot too and certainly does ‘G’ better than a ‘G’ router does.

In fact, a web surfable ‘G’ signal travels through the office wall, across a canal and two streets with trees and RVs between. The ‘N’ adapter one-ups with even better throughput. Placing the router outside on the roof, about eight feet up, a router-accessible signal propagates nearly 700 feet away through 100-foot tall trees and many RVs. That’s in one direction. It likely travels 700-feet the other way too. I can even comfortably surf a poor signal data-rated 2Mbps. Impressive indeed!

The N1 Vision router setup works automatically with local cable however, after several minutes, the cable modems require rebooting. I suppose this is a cable company issue and could be remedied via the router’s manual setup. But DSL is more stable here so, that is the route pursued even though the company isn’t listed in the built-in (cd-less) setup.

The N1 Vision box claims a maximum of 16 WLAN users something you don’t see on Belkin’s website. But after checking with them, it’s 16 simultaneous download-users. You do see that it comes with a lifetime warranty however. The Belkin N1 Adapter and N1 Vision router make this job easy and for awhile, I am a warm and fuzzy celebrity to these vacationers.