Quote Originally Posted by mobilelawyer View Post
If you don't mind, may I ask what aspect of the design of the Belkin F7D2301 allows it to use the 502 behind it, when other router models do not, and how did you find out it had that feature.
Honestly, I had an old router and just decided to replace it because so many other people had their ATA behind the router. I figured mine was just a crap router. I just took a chance, really.

The longer version of the story is that I had a Netgear running DD-WRT. Then, also, I had no problem with the ATA behind the router and had didn't have to port-forward to it or anything. But I'm constantly tinkering and bricked my Netgear, so I threw in an old Belkin I had laying around. But that's when I found I had to have my ATA in front of the router. After several failed attempts of trying to unbrick the Netgear, I gave up and bought the first router I could find that had port-forwarding in case I needed it. Lo and behold, the new Belkin worked flawlessly. So I decided to stop tinkering with the routers and just leave everything the way it is.