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D-Link DI-624 AirPlus Xtreme G Wireless Router 108Mbps

D-Link DI-624 AirPlus Xtreme G Wireless Router 108Mbps

List Price: $89.99
Your Price: $73.14
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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: 108mbps unavailable on mixed wireless networks
Review: This device simply will not function at 108 speeds unless ALL of your wireless connected devices are 108 compaible. Let me make sure there is no room for misinterpretation here. If you have five 108mpbs adapters and a single 54 or 11mbps adapter, then your 108 adapters will run no faster than 54mbps. This has been confirmed by D-link technical support many times.

Their sales page says the following though:

"Only D-Link 80211.g Xtreme G with enhanced 108 is able to remain fully interoperable and compatible WHILE running at 108Mbps,..."

Me thinks something is rotten in Denmark.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Setup and Running in 10 minutes!
Review: It didn't take long to actually get this working and to connect my wireless PC in the other room to the network. Basically you plug it all in (5 minutes) login to the router's interface, and follow the step by step setup wizard. Then just make sure it is working, (5 Minutes).

The speed is fast, the range covers the entire house, and the price is nice as you can see. I'd recommend it to all.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Doesn't work for me
Review: I've been using a D-Link DI-614+ router and it works fine. I bought a DI-624 to upgrade from 11b to 11g. The 624 connected fine to the other machines in my home network and the computer showed an internet connection present, but no matter what I tried I couldn't access the internet. All the settings were the same as the 614. The computer would time out and offer to use my back up dial-up connection. I asked for help from D-Link tech support by email. They made a few very basic suggestions that didn't work, then stopped answering my emails. I gave up and returned the unit to Amazon for a refund. (Amazon's easy returns are great!)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: It ain't so bad actually, worth the money I'd say
Review: I had the old DLink 614+ router and it works fine except it drops connection every now and then especially when you do heavy P2P downloading, the reason, I had WEP turned on

This 624 router initially behaved the same way and I had WPA turned on, I switched to WEP it still dropped connection and then I turned off all security and went for MAC filtering and it's been working fine ever since, now I run two P2P which have like hundreds of connections and it's still working

If all you do is web surfing, you will be happy with it, if you do P2P like I do, DON'T use WPA or WEP, DLink web site specifically says that having WAP or WEP increases your chance of getting dropped connection and I think this is true for all routers not just DLink

I have the C revision of the router with latest firmware and B revision of the DLink PC card G650 (108 Mbs)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great range, poor WAP-PSK implementation
Review: Overall, this router works great and has excellent range. Setup was a breeze as was downloading and installing the latest firmware.

The only drawback preventing a five-star rating is the WAP-PSK performance, which constantly drops the connection with an AirPlus Xtreme G PCMCIA card. The best connection speed is 36 Mbps, which is fine for Internet browsing, but the connection is so unstable as to make it unusable. The workaround is to let Windows XP manage the connection, but the current Microsoft drivers limit your connection speed to 54 Mbps.

The WEP security works great and doesn't seem to affect bandwidth much. Combined with MAC address filtering it should be sufficient in a neighborhood without other wireless connections, but hopefully D-Link will offer some updated firmware to fix the WAP-PSK problems soon.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: CAUSE OF RANDOM RE-BOOTS: Read Here
Review: This is my second router - my first was a wired, D-link DI-604, which worked like a charm. Then, I bought this wireless one. Almost immediately, the problems started - random router reboots, like everyone else seems to have.

Four calls to tech support got me nowhere, until the final, 2nd level support person I talked to suggested something interesting. I disabled the wireless capability entirely via the setup interface, and physically removed the antenna just to make sure. The support person said that if it then works without incident, that means something in the "environment" is sending a signal that is causing the modem to reset itself.

Well, sure enough, the router is 100% OK now. But, it's also now not a wireless modem. The culprit? In the next room, no more than 5 feet away - a 2.4GHz Cordless Phone, bought around the same time as the modem. If I leave it unplugged, or if I leave the wireless capability of the modem off, I'm OK. With both on, I get the drops.

So, you have two choices: avoid cordless phones or any other appliances in that frequency range (good luck - it's amazing how many appliances cause various radiation signatures), or alternately, you could buy a modem that DOESN'T ACCEPT RESETS FROM EXTERNAL WIRELESS CONNECTIONS! I recommend the latter. This modem has an obvious, fatal flaw.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Plug and play... Couldn't be easier...
Review: Perhaps it's my familiarity with D-Link equipment and D-Link configuration interfaces, but setting-up the DI-624 was a breeze.

I've always found the web-based configuration on D-Link routers and WAPs to be relatively intuitive, although it can sometimes be a challenge to find the specific option you're looking for. Lots of clicks of buttons and tabs in your web browser may be required before the desired option is located.

I'm not sure that a novice would be able to set-up the DI-624 on their own (or any WAP and/or router for that matter), but for me, entering the required information took just a few minutes and a couple of reboots of the device, and all was set and working fine.

Since this unit replaced an older WAP device, and the configuration was the same, existing notebooks and wireless devices reconnected with ease.

When used with the DWL-G650 PCMCIA (CardBus) adapter I purchased with this product, the performance was as advertised. Once it was all set-up, I did a few file transfer tests, and experienced performance on-par with 100 Mbit wired Ethernet... Truly incredible!

Better still, distance specs were truly terrific. The DI-624 is located in the garden level of my home. Performance throughout the house and my patio was outstanding. The connection was maintained perfectly, and speeds stayed high at every point. Surprisingly, it out-performed the D-Link DI-614+ it replaced (an 802.11b router/WAP) by a fair margin in both raw speed (as expected) and in distance (which I did not expect).

D-Link products don't always fetch the best reviews by magazines, but they've always served me well. Admittedly, D-Link's firmware and driver updates can sometimes introduce anomalies; keeping configuration back-ups is probably a good idea as a result (something the web interface on this unit makes easy).

In any case, this one's a winner in my book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Worked great once AOL was off my PC
Review: My friend and I set up the wireless connection between our 2 homes. He has the DI-624 and I have the DWL-G520. At first it didn't work at all on my DELL running XP home. My other friend came over with his lap top using an other card, typed in the key and he was surfing at a fast speed. That let me know the DI-624 was working. So I did everything to get it to work, called D-Link support (and yes they suck), down loaded patches, and even upgraded to XP Pro and nothing helped. SO then I desided to uninstal AOL, and then the magic happened. After it worked I've been very happy with it. I'm a good 30 yards from the router in a different house and I get 30% to 40% signal. Thus if yours isn't work check the other software running on your machine such as AOL or firewalls.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: fast, cheap and easy...
Review: I've had this router for a month now and am completely satisfied. I use this with the dlink dwl-g650 pcCard (also very good) over dsl w/sbcglobal. This was the first time I set up a network and there were lots of little things that needed to be tweaked, so the free 24/7 tech support really came in handy -- never waited more than a few minutes to talk to someone. The manual is thorough and well written. And the router's performance is excellent.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Good Luck getting it installed
Review: I have a Pentium 4 3G, Windows XP-pro, Earthlink DSL, and an older, slower Linksys wireless router.

I decided to buy the faster DI-624. After three hours with three different tech support people, I gave up.

I wish you luck.


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