I need to configure a N600 Belkin router. How?

Some later model wireless routers have the Password (ie.Encryption key) and the SSID already configured in the wireless router and this information is printed on a label on the bottom of the router.
These settings can be used to configure the wireless card and wireless adapters in your computer/laptop/tablet.
If these settings do not suit you, then it can be changed to suit your requirements.
The encryption key secures your data and wireless connection from unauthorized access.To configure the wireless settings in the router, connect a LAN cable from your computer to the wireless router, then open a Browser on your computer and enter the router's configuration IP address, then enter the admin login and password and then go to the wireless settings and configure the SSID and Encryption key.
The router's encryption key can be a Passphrase or the WEP or WPA or WPA2 key.If you use the Passphrase method select either WEP or WPA or WPA2 to generate the encryption key. You can enter the WEP or WPA or WPA2 key with 8 to 63 ASCII characters or 64 Hex digits.
Most people use Passphrase which is easier to remember eg. I was born in January 1988.
The strongest and latest security is WPA2, the weakest and oldest is WEP. To connect to your wireless router from the computer/laptop, configure the wireless card in your computer/laptop with the router's wireless settings ie SSID, plus the WPA or WPA2 encryption key. Then computer/laptops can communicate with your wireless router. http://www.fixya.com/support/r10267861-network_security_key

Your Cricket is a modem so you don't need to connect it to your router.Router are for DSL.

I don't have an old modem........what should I do to configure my new belkin F9J1001v1 router+modem

If you are wirelessly connecting you need to use a wireless card that supports dual band.
and then changnig the settings on the wireless card helps.
if you are wired the issue is with the router settings.
Upgrade the firmware on the router

see belkins website on how to do this:
http://en-us-support.belkin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4497

To connect to your wireless router, it needs the router'swireless settings configured ie SSID WPA or encryption key and also thewireless cards in all the laptops and computers needs to be configured withthese router's wireless settings. Then the laptops and desktop computers cancommunicate with your wireless router. To accessthe Belkin configuration, connect a LAN cable from the Belkin to the LAN porton your computer. Open a browser and enter the Belkin configuration URL. http://192.168.2.1 The defaultPW = blank (just press Enter) You can nowgo into the wireless settings to obtain the WPA2 encryption key or change it toa new one.

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Though Belkin play router has a USB port on it, it would not accept the input via that port there by you can not connected the USB connection from Verizon to the router. You need to switch from USB connection to Ethernet connection on the Verizon modem contacting verizon.

Try restoring the Belkin back to the factory default by powering up the Belkin and pressing the RESET button on the back of the Belkin for 7 secs. Then connect a LAN cable from the computer to the Belkin, open IE browser and type the configuration IP address and configure the wireless settings ie. SSID, encryption etc. The computer wireless cards will need to be configured with the Belkin wireless settings to allow them to communicate with the Belkin.

You need to configure the Belkin router with a SSID and WAP or WEP encryption, Then install the Linksys adapter driver in the computer and then configure the Linksys adapter with the Belkin router settings (ie. the SSID and encryption) before the Linksys can communicate eith the Belkin router.

No router needs a setup CD to configure.

Configure DHCP on your MAC interface that connects to the router and check if that interface gets an IP. If you have an IP, then open a web browser (IE, Firefox, etc, forgot the MAC browser name), and enter the IP address you had but replace the last one with 1.
Say you got 192.168.2.3, then enter 192.168.2.1 and hit return.
You will need a pasword to login. If you ever changed router password, it will be either blank (type nothing) or admin.

After login, you can configure anything list on left side of the menu.