Belkin

American manufacturers of consumer electronics: routers, iPod and iPhone accessories.

Belkin/Linksys/Wemo: American manufacturers of consumer electronics: including routers, iPod and iPhone accessories, mobile computing accessories, surge protectors, network switches, hubs, (USB and computer network) cables, KVM switches, racks and enclosures, and other peripherals.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2020-05-12

I stopped buying their products because every router I had from them seemed to overheat and die after 2 years. After like 2 or 3 devices like this, I learned. Their reputation for routers is bad. For simple plastic accessories or other things it's not that bad.

During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic they decided to EOL their Wemo NetCam. ^[1] This was incredibly shortsighted as a lot of people use these devices to monitor their second homes or summer properties over the Internet -- and they can't just fly there and/or replace these cameras when things are locked down. A 30 day sunset plan is beyond incompetently managed, and if I had one of their cameras and they did this, I’d never buy another of their products again. As it is, they certainly lost a lot of user trust.

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Low grade products, with lower grade support and common sense.

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Main article: Wink

American software and hardware company that does smart home devices. During the middle of a COVID pandemic they went from paid to subscription only, with 7 days notice to customers. Pay the extortion or their products became useless. Users were going to be irked either way, but the way they handled it was guaranteed to cause maximum irritation and alienation