D-Link 4-Port RangeBooster Wireless-N Router
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Customer Review: great product, but wait until you want to secure your network...
Summary: 3 Stars
A slim, sleek, reasonably compact device with very acceptable range and good overall performance. It installed like a dream, until it came time to secure my wireless network - a network of a single laptop, mind you. No way one can do it without having to call tech support. And it took several long tech phone calls over different days and a variety of solutions for it to finally work properly and fully. On the plus side, I always got a tech fairly quickly and they did have a reference from prior calls. On the minus side, one time I got disconnected and they never called back even though they had my number, so I had to start over. Also, it took at least three or four different tries/solutions to finally get it right. In retrospect, it was a good thing I did get disconnected, it was that last call that did it!Customer Review: The cause of my Internet connection flakiness
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this router about 8 months ago (in May 2008). The one I have is a rev. C (still the current model). Since I got it, I'd occasionally had problems with my Internet connection not working for a few minutes to up to an hour; I thought it was Comcast's problem based on some simple network diagnostics.
However, I realized at some point that the desktop computer that I rarely use, and which is plugged into the wired network port, was still connected just fine even when my laptop was unable to connect to the Internet (although the laptop could connect to the router just fine, e.g., to change the router's configuration).
So there's something wrong with this router. I tried upgrading the firmware, and changing a whole bunch of configuration options, but nothing helped.
Customer Review: An excellent router for the right price
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this about 3 months ago to replace a Linksys router with DD-WRT custom firmware that was acting up and needed reboots several times a week. It's been working really well, very stable and with good range -- works from all over my house, even though I placed it in a less than ideal location, in a corner next to speakers and a computer.
The firmware is easy to configure yet quite advanced (logs, forwarding, DynDNS, etc... all the stuff I need).
I'm not using any wireless-N devices yet, I just wanted N to be future-proof. And it looks like this router is going to last a long time indeed.
I'm very happy with my purchase, D-Link did an excellent job with this router. The price is very reasonable, too. Recommended.
Customer Review: Easy to use, easy to setup wireless router
Summary: 5 Stars
I own the big brother to this router, the DIR-655. I bought this model for my girlfriend's parents for Christmas because they were limping along on a B network. I went with this model because it was the least expensive N model with the QoS (Quality of Service) engine, which prioritizes packet traffic based on their time sensitivity (e.g. VOIP and gaming packets are given a higher priority over, say, internet browsing packets). After plugging it in, I had it tuned within 20 minutes and my girlfriend's mother's laptop connected in another 5. What can I say? If you're accustomed to the D-Link router setup, this one's a breeze. And that initial 20 minutes? That included downloading the latest firmware update for it and applying it. Gotta' love that!Customer Review: Horrible Securespot feature ensures I will never buy DLink again
Summary: 1 Stars
Performance between different wireless routers is all the same. The differences are 1) stability and 2) ease of management. This rouuter is very easy to manage. However, it may be the least reliable router I've ever owned, and I've owned a dozen or so.
It has this Securespot software on it that you can never full disable. So every few weeks, you'll suddenly lose your internet connection and need to go into the DLink router setup and enable the disabled Securespot feature and then disable it again and suddenly everything works. Updating firmware has no effect.
The Securespot feature is something entirely unecessary and unwanted for a consumer level device like this. This will be the LAST DLink device I ever buy.