This is common behavior for hackers: Few years ago I was on a vacation in a nice villa with "internet in the house". It turned out that this means DSL in the administrator's room. One hour trip to the near town later there was Wifi coverage in the estate. Nothing of the their work's magnitude, of course. Drinks were on the house that night.
The shitty crap $20 routers I've seen where plugging it out and in again makes them work again for about 40 seconds make me wish there was a button on them that'd give everyone in the company that pretends to have made them an electric shock.
Dear everyone - you know not to buy anything that's sold through spam emails by now. How about not buying a router that, when you plug it in, makes a faint fizzing sound, costs less than what you think it should and isn't a good brand? No, Belkin is a level of shit yet to be reached by the crap factories of Turdtown. If I had a dollar for every F5D7230 that I wanted to fold in half... just don't trust the reviews. Don't get that Netgear, their firmware is utter crap. Oh, you want bridging mode? You'll need to buy the v8, we've enabled it in the firmware for that. The v7 won't cut it, oh no. WGR614 was the name for that abortion of a craptardation. Just don't buy that crap. If, for a fucking router, they need to do ten revisions of the hardware WGR614v1 to WGR614v10, to get their supplies they need and their shit together, don't buy. Cisco, Linksys, Billion, TP-LINK, Fritz. That's not a whitelist though. Even they have produced utterly worthless things that manage to give LEDs their 5 Volts and whatnot milli-Ampere and give you a nice UI to manage a Wi-Fi connection that just doesn't work.
You want a router for grown-ups? Get the WRT54GL. Ten year and then some track record. Put your own damn firmware on it. How do you know it's for adults? The Amazon page says WARNING CHOKING HAZARD -- Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs. That warning ain't on D-Link.
The time I have wasted on these pieces of crap you wouldn't believe. Thank you Hacker News, for giving me a place to vent.
You want a simple page you can open in your browser? Noooooo way, that's way too industry standard. Rather have something where you need to keep your configuration software up to date too! It even doesn't work on Linux! What a feature!
