Most hotspots are using b/g protocol for the widest compatibility with other hardware. Your macbook pro may not be able to connect tot he Belkin router if it's only broadcasting the N protocol. First verify which protocol the Belkin router is using. If it's broadcasting N, try changing it to use b/g and see if you can connect. I seem to recall that the earlier macbooks needed an update to be N compatible.
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things you may need to verify: is the router broadcasting in the b/g range or N only? If your router is set to N only, then your mac might not be N capable although if this is a newer notebook, that would be surprising. Also, is the router broadcasting it's SSID (the name of your network it might be called "default" or "belkin" or something like that.) Does your Mac see the wireless network at all? Can you manually scan for the network and connect to it?
Are your connections elsewhere 802.11N or 802.11G? if you turn off the N feature of your router and use G only, does your laptop connect then?
"Problems connecting" is also vague. Does your laptop report the existence of your home network? Does it allow you to attempt to log in? In exactly what aspect of connecting to your network do things "fail," and what message do you get when they fail?
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