Belkin N750 DB

Belkin N750 DB Review

Belkin’s N750 DB offers a better-than-average feature set, but the router’s performance is a mixed bag. At most of our test stations, it delivered very good performance from its 5GHz radio but mediocre throughput from its 2.4GHz radio. Belkin arrives at the N750 model number by adding the 300Mb/s theoretical throughput on its 2.4GHz radio to the 450Mb/s theoretical throughput of its 5GHz radio. This is nonsense, of course, because you can’t bond the two together to achieve throughput that even approaches 750Mb/s. The features include dual USB 2.0 ports to enable network sharing of both a printer and attached storage (drives can be formatted with either FAT16/32 or NTFS). Belkin provides software that will automatically back up the hard drives on attached clients. The N750 DB supports a guest network, too, which gives you the power to share your broadband connection while barring guests from accessing other computers or storage on your network. The guest network, however, operates on only the 2.4GHz band. Belkin describes its Video Mover feature as an app that enables you to “play videos from your library on your TV—wirelessly—through devices like… a DLNA-compliant Blu-ray player,” but the N750 DB itself is not DLNA certified, and the router is very light in terms of quality-of-service features.