D-Link DIR-655 Extreme-N Gigabit Wireless Router by D-Link Systems, Inc.
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Digital camera reviews of D-Link DIR-655 Extreme-N Gigabit Wireless Router
Digital camera Review: A Horid Product with even worse customer service
Summary: 1 Stars
There are excellent instructions to install the router; however, the guidance on how to go "wireless" is incompete at best. After 4 hours trying to get the wireless feature to work (which involves switching back from the awful instruction book to the less than helpful website where the router must be configured) I spent 2 hours being yelled at by a custmer service rep who failed to mention that I needed to key in a passcode from the bottom of the router. I was never able to get the product to work with my laptop and would not recomend buying anything at all from the company unless you are willing to have a very rude woman yell at you for several hours before telling you to return the product.Digital camera Review: A Pain to Setup, but it Sizzles!
Summary: 4 Stars
My old router was simply too pathetic to support my needs, so I upgraded to this one. It really solved my problem. Reception is strong (54 mbps) and video streams from basement to living room just fine, even to my MacMini, which has a fussy location for its internal antenna. Setup was counter-intuitive. Normally, you stick in the disk and follow the directions. Not here. After you are done, and without a prompt from the install wizard, you have to go online to configure the router. Here the workflow was not obvious, the steps difficult to understand, and the importance and consequences of decisions not documented. Chosing a WAP key and implementing it was a pain. Tech support won't accept calls if the queue is longer than 10 minutes too. If you don't think you want to sweat this process out, buy something else.Digital camera Review: A Seamless Upgrade!
Summary: 5 Stars
I expect my wireless network to provide a high level of service with a broad range (so I can take wireless PC's outside in various places, etc.), and had been very disappointed with the old 802.11G product (also D-Link) I had been using. The DIR-655 plugged in and my network (8 machines plus network storage) was up in minutes - and ALL of my complaints about range and signal strength are gone. It is simply the best home networking product I've ever purchased. Highly recommended!Digital camera Review: A Solid Router
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this to replace my Netgear WGR614 and what a difference! Previously I would get 2-3 VPN drops a day with the Netgear router from a laptop just a few feet away. Just swapping that router for the DLink DIR-655, I have maintained a continuous connection for over 3 days. I'm also getting better range on all devices - at least Good reception for all devices throughout my house. I'm using VOIP now, and there are very few stutters / warble using this router, possibly due to the QoS features. I'm using the DLink entirely in wireless mode, and it manages 6 wireless devices of various types (laptops, iPods, game adapter, desktops) well with no dropouts.
The only slight installation issue I had was not a problem with the router but with one of my legacy devices, a Netgear WGE111 game adapter connected to my Xbox. The WGE111 doesn't support WPA-2, so I had to set the DLink router to WPA-Personal, WPA Mode:WPA Only, Cipher Type: TKIP. Those were the only changes I needed to make to the default setup of the DLink router.
My router was H/W Ver.:B1 F/W Ver.:2.00NA A Fry's salesperson told me that there were some dropout issues with some of the older firmware versions.
Digital camera Review: A Turkey can set this up !!!
Summary: 5 Stars
*Ease of setup 5 out of 5 stars
*Reliability 5 out of 5 stars
*Speed 5 out of 5 stars
*Range
*Over Heating= NONE
I recommend this router to anyone. This is a very powerful router!!!