I am using the Belkin Pre-N version just now. They are a pig to set up, but once you're there they're very fast. It's a standard critcism of Belkin wireless routers I'm afraid. Basically (very) flaky firmware.
I've found from my own experience that the best sequence for inputting info into this thing taking all the resets into account is:
router password
wireless security on wpa-psk (enter key) (it resets)
lan settings (if you're planning on changing anything)
internet settings (isp username, password etc)
Basically, the personal isp stuff is entered last of all.
Windows tends to become attached to an established network connection so you may need to inform windows to detach and reconnect and find out what its IP address is. If need be you may have to bring up the ms-dos command prompt and do "ipconfig /release" then "ipconfig /renew" to get windows to recognise the fact that the router has reset itself and to find out what the IP, gateway and DNS settings are now.
Good luck! As Seven of Nine discovered, persistence is not futile.
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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