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Product Review Summary: Real steady on my Mac This replaces a much older router and it showed me much greater speed on my network and to my cable modem. Plus adding open ports and especially playing LAN games it made this router a no brainer. I am so glad to get this router and setting up is a breeze. I just wished D-Link would add a blurb in the manuel for other non-Windows computers using a web browser to configure the router. Not everyone is network engineer and i bet the software included for Windows doesn't even work in Windows 7. Will someone please verify this please?
Product Review Summary: Crapped out in 45 days. So I had this old 10/100 D-Link broadband router/gateway (DI-604) D-Link Express EtherNetwork DI-604 - Router + 4-port switch - EN, Fast EN
that I've been using since 2004.
For no particular reason, I upgraded to this D-Link router to up my internal LAN bandwidth -
The Web config gui certainly looks snazzier than the old DI-604, but I noticed that it's gui response is SLOWER.
Second, the web connectivity also seems to be slower - or it takes longer to establish connection (Tho I can't speak for the bandwidth once connection is established).
Then one day, my net connectivity starts to crap out Can't talk to gmail, nothing - youtube fails to come up.
I was like whoa! Comcast issues again - right? So I look at the status window on the gui, and it says that the broadband is up. So from firefox, I can talk to the router, but not to anything else.
Bizarro!
After powercycle/rebooting the cable modem, the router, check the cables, then finally my PC - still nada - firefox can connect to the web gui, but nothing else. Wierd thing is that the internal ping to the router has like a 25% failure rate.
Strange, right? Gotta be a cable issue, right?
Nope - the router is crapped out - here's how I know. I then re-connected my old DI-604 to the cable modem, and the PC to the DI604 and lo and behold, gmail comes back up, etc...
So I was like maybe its a gigabit issue? maybe my cat6 cables started to crap out in gigabit mode? So I take out my trusty gigabit switch (also from DLink!), and put it in between the PC and Di604 - and still everything is hunky dory.
So than I put the switch between the PC and the GamerLounge (and the GamerLounge to the cable modem) and I powercycle all the devices -
Cable modem comes up, gamerlounge comes up, switch comes up, web conf comes up and says its connected to the outside world, but ping to the gamerlounge still craps out.
All I know is that one minute the gamerlounge worked (if slowly), then the other minute it started to crap out.
Oh - and DLink has crappy support, so I'm out of a hundred bucks almost and have a fancy paperweight with blinky lights for my trouble.
Avoid like the plague.
Product Review Summary: I am extremely pleased! I had been experiencing communication problems in my small LAN: 2-PC's and 2-Printers. My cable provider exacerbated the situation by slowing during heavy useage periods. Even though I am not an avid "gamer" I opted for this router because of its speed and ability to handle heavy traffic. I did good, real good! Performance is excellent. The hanging and locking in my LAN has gone away. And even though the router cannot fix my cable traffic problem, it has absolutely minimized the hanging and locking that occurred there. Needless to say, I am very pleased with my choice and the products performance. The installation, in my case, was very simple because I replaced another router. I did not need to load any new software from the accompanying CD, installation text was sufficient. The couple of specific tweeks required for my unique configuration I did manually. Security from the internal firewall has also been very good and provides an additional important level of comfort. The router has been installed and running flawlessly for 6-weeks as of this writing. Even though the router has many more features than I use, the performance has fully justified the purchase. While snooping internally, I found accessing the router's internal parameters was very easy and D-Link provides exceptional "Help" for every parameter.
Product Review Summary: Great Router! I am placing a order for a second router now... Works great, easy setup and fast!
Product Review Summary: great router, setup takes some work Pleased after some time working on the setup. The manual and the online support are not that extensive. I'm not using it for online gaming, but I have my iMac, Directv HR-21 and PS3 connected with Cox cable internet. The only issue I've had that I haven't been able to overcome is when Medialink is turned on and the Directv2PC constantly pings my Mac, even though they are not compatible. I can't seem to configure the router to deny access or file sharing between the two and Directv2PC cannot be turned off. Speeds have been excellent as far as downloading HD programs On Demand. Overall, I good multimedia router.
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