Belkin Pre-N Wireless - excellent basic wireless, POS for anything else?

Recently bought a Belkin Pre-N wireless combo (wireless router plus their
pre-N PCMCIA card).

First of all, the combination (as well as the router with my exiting G
PCMCIA cards) works fantastically well. range and throughput are through the
roof compared with my Netgear G wireless router.

However, a desktop that I plugged into one of the Belkin's Ethernet ports
(in other words, hard-wired, not wireless) drops the connection on a daily
basis. A Netgear print server (PS111W) that I had used with the Netgear
wireless G router for years with zero trouble cannot be made to work with
the Belkin pre-n wireless router.

I even went so far as to buy a Brother network printer, but before I opened
the box I decided to daisy chain the old Netgear G wireless router ahead of
the Belkin router with all my Ethernet stuff plugged into the Netgear along
with the Belkin pre-n router.

Result was that I can used the PS111W and printer again and I'll bet my
dropped network connection problems with the hard-wired PC are over.

Contacted Belkin by e-mail about this and no answer after a week.

The Belkin pre-n should be sold as what it is an excellent wireless gateway
and not a router. As a wireless gateway it excels, as a router, it sucks to
high heaven.

- Geo