Router Questions. Netgear and Belkin.

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Belkin router has FREAKING ADS on the configuration page. The question is, can I hack it?
Also, does anyone know how to add custom entries to the firewall (might be the solution, no?) and not just what Norton ConnectSafe picks (yuck). I want to block only specific websites including the top 500 ad servers. It worked on my Netgear before it self-bricked during a official update. Hardware Firewall > AdBlockPlus! It required no software on the client side of things. I have recovered the poor Netgear by using the JTAG interface putting DD-WRT on it, but sadly it is not as fast as the new router. I really like the Netgear though, and now im using it as a WIFI to Ethernet convertor. I just hotwire it to the +12 Molex and have a ethernet coming out empty PCI slot and into the Ethernet card. Looks wierd, but having a DD-WRT Linux server within your desktop really comes in handy. I configured it to save downloads to a flash drive over another Eternet port and I basically have a programmable autodownloader and WIFI adaptor in one. I can use its firewall to block for my pc (WAY less lag than ABP) but for nobody else except those that use the mysterious ehternet cords coming out of my desktop LOL. It annoys people (especially my parents who bought the new router for the internet) to find the config page flashing ads for making 160 a moth at home with wierd sites and flash games. GOD I SWEAR THOSE ADS WITH SOUND MAKE ME WANT TO GO INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please help, or I will figure out how to use the firewall on our DSL modem from our ISP. I know it has one, but even to me the settings are so advanced, and messing one thing up usually puts it offline till you reset it. I really dont think it could hadnle the load of the huge 1.2MB virus, ad and inappropriate stuff blocking filter.
 
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Belkin is mediocre at best and always has been. NetGear is generally outstanding.
 
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I understand what your saying, Netgear is the best routers in existance, and I very well know that.Tthe netgear is 4 (or more?) years older so it is slower. Unfortunately, the only routers at a local store were Belkin unless you didnt want WIFI. we needed a router fast because the internet was dead for about 10 devices (mobile, WII, laptop, tablets etc) besides 2 desktops and I dont allow anyone to use my desktop (they dont understand my hacked up custom Linux very good anyways LOL) so everyone was sharing 1 computer and a router was needed within 24 hours. The belkin cost only $30 and if a upgrade is ever made, it will be Netgear. The preformance of it is pretty good though, 300+MBPS between devices while the Netgear was capped at 150 while using 256 bit encryption.
 

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I suck!
I have asked the router to forgive me for complaining about it LOL. It was a freaking adware! I first figured that out when changing some router settings from another PC. The ads wernt there so I decided to search ads not by this site and brought up a post on a virus :O I was wondering why my Netgear hardware firewall set to block all adservers I could think didnt kill them. Can this thread be closed as it is irrevelant now? I also apologise for making anyone think belkin routers have ads, they DO NOT HAVE ADS unless you got a adware virus. Only thing though, I gotta disinfect my parents laptop too cause it got on there through the Windows update port too. This was the reason for my thinging that it was the router because 2 PCs had the same thing. I am going to decompile the Windows Update service to find out how something got in, havent found aKB for it also... Strange. Maybe someone got hold of Microsoft's windows update signatures/certificates and signed some files and FTP'd them to our windows machines. Goood thig this PC is a dual boot so I can attemp to unscramble the MBR and FAT to get my files back (if you try to install a firewall or go to the real Windows Update it seems to crash the pc, delete random dlls and scramble the main MBR/FAT and it requires the backup record to be copied over the real one. FREAKING DAMMIT I HATE VIRUSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WILL hack/decompile/reverse engineer the Windows Update service on both the XP (mine) and 7 computers to find out how the freaking hell someone got in. TRIS MAKES ME REALLY MAD. As a side note, I have to play Minecraft on Linux with non native drivers now, so the FPS sucks (30-80), but suprisingly there is far much less lag. I would ecpect a wierd bug like that on XP bacuse maybe they missed it and they are giving up on updates, but not on Windows 7. I worried if this is a flaw in all versions of Windows.