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Summary: Time sucker AVOID this cheap router
Review: Spent hour and hours and hours trying to get this thing to be reliable. It works, doesn't work, it works, it doesn't work. Reset, reboot. It worked for a day then stops. Absolute crap. My guess is that I got a bad one. Seems there a lot of bad ones out there.
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Summary: Low wireless data rate and poor tech suppport
Review: The first thing I noticed about this router was that my internet download speed was about 2700 Kbps when connected directly to the router but dropped to 1200 Kbps when operating wireless. That's with link quality of 100 and only one other computer on the network with no applications running on either computer (aside from the one browser window required for the test). Both computers use DLink DWL-520 Wireless network cards. To solve the problem I updated the firmware to 1.02. That didn't improve the data rates, but it did make the router's HTML-based menu screens load so slowly that the browser usually timed out. Following industry standards, DLink apparently mans their first echelon phones with technical illiterates who while capable of following a scripted check list, haven't a clue what's causing your problem or how their sequence of steps might might solve it. For example, to solve the slow menu problem they had me reset the defaults on my browser even though I had no trouble bringing up any other web page I tried. And it made no impact on them that the router menus wouldn't come up any quicker with Netscape. So, after numerous calls, multiple case IDs, and never talking to the same person twice, I decided it was best to cut my losses and give up before they reconfigured my computer to the point where it wouldn't work at all. If you surf the web a lot or do internet gaming, stay clear of these products. Stick with a reputable name and save yourself the aggravation and wasted hours trying to make cheap junk like this work. The money you save isn't worth the headaches.
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Summary: Don't do it.
Review: The price is tempting but it isn't even worth 17 bucks or whatever it is after the rebate. I spent three months constantly re-setting the firmware and monkeying with the settings, and finally the thing just gave out and stopped powering up entirely. A completely worthless product that you should avoid at all costs.
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Summary: D-Link tech support gets 5 stars
Review: The provided manuals get 0 stars. I could not get this product to work with what the manuals told me, but I sent an email and got a very prompt response that solved all my problems. I'm using a D-Link cable modem, this router, and 2 Dlink DWL-122 USB adapters and it works flawlessly so far. I also have connected one desktop with an ethernet connection. This is great value as long as you can get it to work.
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Summary: Serious wireless security hole
Review: The router works great for me, but I have an important warning: Do NOT disable the wireless feature. I discovered that checking the 'disable' button in the wireless setup page actually leaves the wireless fully operational BUT WITH NO ENCRYPTION. It broadcasts an SSID of 'GeorgeAP22' -- apparently some leftover test mode. So, set up the wireless encryption, and leave it enabled, even if you have no current need for it. Otherwise, your network is there for everyone to see. Tech support told me it's a known problem that will be fixed in a firmware upgrade. After two months, still nothing on their website. I have firmware version 2.00.
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Summary: set the preamble to long
Review: This is an option on the advanced tab, performance section. It ships with the default being short, and disconnects every 2 minutes, even when there is activity. Oh, and go to their website and upgrade the firmware. Otherwise, the setup is very easy. Will update after I get a chance to use the firewall.
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Summary: Performs Well
Review: This is just about as simple as Wireless Networking gets. You take this out of the box and it only takes a couple minutes to setup. This device practically walks you through every step and suddenly you are done and connecting your laptop wirelessly. After setting this up I can now share my Internet with multiple devices (PC, Laptop, PS2, and whatever else is Internet capable. I am happy with this router from D-Link because of the ease of use and simplicity of this router, oh and the low low price. Thanks D-Link!
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Summary: Do not upgrade the firmware to 1.02
Review: This product used to work great. A week ago I bought a new IBM laptop, which uses centron CPU. And I found that there was a newer firmware version for the router and then I upgraded it. After that, numerious problems arised. My MSN messenger kept disconnecting once it logged into, and the IE always got stunk while I tried to surf the internet. Sometime it made the IE frozen. Initially, I thought it was ISP's problem or the router configuration's fault. I tried many times to power off the cable modem and modified the configuration of the router and then everything was fine just for a couple of minutes. After that, the wireless connection kept dropping. Even after I restored the factory configrations, the same thing occurred. Finally, I tried to restore the firmware back to version 1.0, then everything is Okay now. Very disappointed in the new firmware. Why put something unreliable in the web? My point is that users do not upgrade your firmware if you have not any problems.
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Summary: Dropped packets
Review: This router seems to have a big problem with dropped packets. I put sniffers on both sides, and found that hosts on both sides would do "a lot" of TCP re-transmits through the hub. Fairly regulary, re-transmits would fail, and it would backout-retry up to 132 seconds before finally getting the data through. As you can imagine, this has a major impact on performance. I've tried every variety of option, especially the ones on the "performance" tab, to no avail. I've tried re-positioning the hub and the host on the wireless side. (...)I'll look other other brands of wireless hubs for my next purchase.
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Summary: Good basics, poor features
Review: This router works great out of the box as long as you stick with the default settings.
I'm using it with a D-link DWL-700AP to bridge two networks. Using the default settings, everything is great, but when I tried turning on the 64-bit encryption, the two units stopped talking to each other. I called tech support and they said that the encryption simply did not work on the DI-514. I then tried turning on the MAC address filtering, and the router's set-up utility just froze after I entered my computer's MAC address. Just remember - YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. On the plus side, the tech support guys are helpful once you get through to them.
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