Ishme
salina,#2Author of original report
Sat, January 19, 2008
I thought I would update this as a warning to anyone that might ever consider calling Belkin tech support. It is now more than FIVE HOURS after i got of the phone with the first two reps. I was on the phone, and my call waiting beeped. Guess who? Another non-native english speaking Belkin wonder-child. He wanted to try to resolve my problem, but yet again not without "updating my information" to include physical address, email address, and place of business (I still didn't comply). I'm almost waiting for a request for a DNA sample. He wanted "to try a few things". Ummh....you CAN'T. You can NOT change the time zone. Period. This is a glitch in the programming of the router. You can not download a patch, or download the firmware to get this to fix....partially because you can't install the new upgraded firmware once you get it downloaded. I tried. 4 times. Yes, I have the right file. Yes I followed the instructions to the letter. The problem is in the file TYPE. That, unfortunatley, is not a pbcak. So, because you can not install the firmware because it is the wrong file type, you can not get the new firmware that "will enable you to fix the problems with {my} router". So 5 minutes into the conversation, my call waiting goes off AGAIN. It was ANOTHER Belkin (non-native english speaker) wonder-child. No, I am NOT kidding. Yes, I went into orbit. I asked the second one if he was aware that I was ALREADY on the phone with a Belkin rep that had called ME, less than 5 minutes ago. I informed him that I wasn't going to discuss the issues with him as I already had a rep on the other line, I lost my patience and hung up. I went back to the first Belkin rep and asked why possibly, another rep, would be trying to contact me. He suggested that my call had not been disconnected after all, and had finally been put through. Umm, excuse me? I disconnected after 10 minutes of phone ringing, more than FIVE HOURS ago. He tried to go back to downloading the new firmware. He didn't like hearing no, and kept asking. I kept telling him that it was a file problem, not a "me" problem, or a "router" problem, it was a file type issue, that until fixed, was useless. I decided that he wasn't going to give up, so I told him that I was going to hang up, and didn't want to hear from them any time in the near future, and the next time I had to buy a router because this one locked up, it won't be a Belkin. Moral of the story? Belkin tech support is persistant, annoying, frustrating, won't take no for an answer, and completely useless.