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Summary: Unstable and the worst technical support
Review: I bought this 2 months ago. Since then I couldn't have it working without problems. It reboots itself without any alert. No logs about the problem and D-link don't have any response for this.
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Summary: Lemon!
Review: I bought this product because it at least got three stars and was cheaper than other 3-star routers. I spent three-hours to setup with three separate calls to the D-Link tech support. I would have been better off buying a bit more expensive product.It would "ping" just fine, but would not be accessible through IE-6. The problem would have been caught if they had just plugged it in before packaging. Tech Support was OK, but they were very disorganized and seemed to be working on an extremely slow "network" - each one asked for the case#, but couldn't find it - and after stating my name and number they would tell me that I am calling regarding"DI-514" but would not pull-up rest of the info. Bottom Line: My time is way too expensive to deal with D-Link. Never again.
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Summary: Is the best..Excellent Customer service
Review: I bought this router along with the DW650 PC card.
Works very good.
Excellent Customer service.
Easy to install.
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Summary: Dropped connections and limited range is a problem
Review: I bought this router as my first foray into wireless networking. The setup was easy -- much easier than I expected. The web-based program was simple and efficient, although my attempts to turn on the encryption caused a lengthy period of waiting, as if my computer was hanging.
Once running, I have had zero in the way of problems that have forced me to reset the router, in contrast to a number of other reviews here. The only time I've had to reset the router in the last two months is when I was having DSL problems that were completely unrelated to the router. (Turned out it was a short in the outdoor wiring)
My main complaint is the frequency of dropped wireless connections. I often use my laptop in my living room, which is barely 25 feet from the router's position. Although the signal has to travel through one wall, the connection is unstable. At one moment, my signal strength will be "very good," the next moment, it will be dropped. A moment later, it will reconnect as "low," improve to "good," only to be dropped again. I would estimate that the signal will be dropped an average of five to fifteen times per hour of use.
Now, I'm no expert in wireless networking, as I've said, but considering the short distance involved, the peformance strikes me as rather poor.
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Summary: Good basic wireless router
Review: I bought this router because it was lowest priced unit at the time. It works as expected with no problems except ONE: after few minutes inactivity it kills ssh session from an inside computer to an outside linux/unix server. It is a big hassle because I am used to be able to log in to a mail server and stay connected while the computer is on but now I have log in every time I want to read mail. I think most wireless routers have this problem (Netgear 814 has the same problem) and I suspect it is probably related somehow to NAT/firewall feature which can not be turned off. For example, Netgear 314 does not behave this way. It is a great product for the price since you really do not need 802.11g routers for two reasons:
1) The standrad is new and still being finalized
2) 11 Mbits/s is all you EVER need unless you are streaming HDTV signal over your home wireless network which I am sure you are not I also called D-Link customer service about my airplus 802.11b card and as somebody else already wrote hold time was short and I got professional help from an AMERICAN rep.
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Summary: Don't try using this for serious online gaming
Review: I bought this router because the Linksys version B would not work with my version of AOL (9.0 optimized). This one worked just fine. One problem though, when playing games that transfer a lot of data, such as Planetside or City of Heroes, I lose connection every now and then. Other online MMORPG's work fine 99% of the time (have only been dropped from them about 3 times). So, if you are thinking of purchasing this, or any wireless router, for heavy gaming make sure you get a G model and not a B.
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Summary: Excellent Customer Service
Review: I got this router + wireless card around a month ago. I did not have any problem. Customer service is very good.
Rating:
Summary: Very Good Product, with good support.
Review: I have been using this wireless router for over a year and I have had no problems with it. I also have a D-link card in my pc and I get 22MB transfers instead of 10MB or 11MB like most 802.11b wireless networks. You can't beat this router for the price. Currently I have my desktop, laptop, and xbox live (all wireless) running through this wireless router and it all works flawlessly. I'm also getting the same speeds I used to get with my hard-line connections.
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Summary: Good but Slow
Review: I have computers connecting both wirelessly and over CAT5 with this router. Overall, as a router, it has preformed adaquetly. The wired D-Link 604 it replaced never had to be powercycled over 4 months, whilst this 514 has required the treatment twice in 5 months. The 514 has a particulary curious trait that took a call to tech support to iron out. If you run a server, and set up the router to do port forwarding or DMZ to that computer, and then try to open your public IP address from inside your network, the request will be terminated at the router. It doesn't go out to the ISP and back in, the router tries to respond to the request and won't pass the request off to anything else. The wireless abilities of this router are OK. From my expierence, the router is better off a fair distance from the computers. The optimal distance seems to be about 20' - closer or further, the signal strength fades away. The web administration program offers you fine control over the settings. It supports 64 and 128 bit WEP in both hex and ASCII modes. You also have the ability to disable the wireless portion of the router while leaving the wired portion active. Port forwarding, outside of the quirk above, is easy to get working. I've only had to call tech support once, and it was an overseas tech I spoke with. Hold time was short, but getting the reason for the router's behavior took a while. If you're looking for something comparable in speed to wired ethernet, this is not it. I had a media server running inside my network. MPEGs encoded from my TV Tuner couldn't stream in real time, whereas on wired ethernet, there's bandwidth available simultaneously. The 11 Mbits this offers should be enough, but barely, so its hard to know whether the router is not preforming or if there's another factor involved. If you'll be doing file transfers, spend the money to get a Wireless G router instead. But for anything short of file transfers, this should offer you all you need, and the flexibility of not needing the run CAT5 is worth quite a lot.
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Summary: Hey, it works.
Review: I just got cable internet and wanted to share it on my other computer. I've never used one before, and was able to set this up fairly quickly. It works fine, and there's really nothing more to say. It's low cost comparing to other routers kinda bugged me before I used it, but not anymore. It works, and I can't see spending anymore on another one.
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