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Summary: Lousy router doesnt work with IBM Thinkpad
Review: I hate this router already before reading the feedbacks here. If a router wont work with so many devices, it is basically junk. I have used both Microsoft(I know we are against MS) but the router never gave me any problems with any devices, "firmware" also was great. This stupid thing restarts every time I add a MAC address to the filter list. I sneeze and it restarts.
In short, I HATE IT!!!
Go for the little more expensive Netgear or grrr... Microsoft and you will get your money's worth and professionalism.
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Summary: Pretty Cool stuff
Review: I just bought this a month back along with a USB wireless device. Both work fine. The wireless router was pretty easy to install. The connection is great, although sometimes the link strength reads ~50% but I havent seen a drop in performance. Overall I am pretty happy with this.
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Summary: Great and Small Router! And a tip for those with WAN issues.
Review: I purchased this router to replace my D-Link DI-614+ and it works great! The first thing I noticed immediately out of the box was the size. The DI-524 is VERY small. About 1/3rd the size of the DI-614+. But it still has all of the same great features. Antenna signal strength is stronger and I am very pleased with this unit.And here's a quick note regarding the problems some people seem to have connecting this device to the Internet via their Cable or DSL modem. It seems that the WAN port is configured out of the box to be locked in at 100 Mbps. This is where the problem comes from. The vast majority of Cable and DSL modems out there operate at 10Mbps per second only. Uh-oh! Bad move D-Link! Because if you plug the router into the modem out of the box and you have a 10Mbps modem you won't be able to connect the devices and you won't be able to go online. Very dumb move D-Link. I bet tons of routers have been returned for service just because of this simple and fixable issue. This is easily corrected by logging into the router and going to the "Tools" menu and then choosing "Misc". Scroll to the middle of the page and find "WAN select to 10/100 Mbps" and select 10Mbps and click APPLY. Once the router reboots, your router and Cable or DSL modem will be working happily together and all is good. But there really is no reason that this device should be shipping with 100Mbps switched on by default. I hope that future firmware revisions will correct this issue so more novice users can easily setup this great router without issue. Otherwise, a very good purchase and very good piece of equipment for anyone who is looking for an affordable and reliable WiFi router. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Nice little wireless router
Review: I'm not sure if the other reviewers have problems reading instructions or if they just skipped steps. Had no problems at all getting this unit set up and establishing connections between my desktop and Inspiron 5150. Take it out of the box, connect an ethernet cable between the desktop and router and plug it in. Use your favourite browser to connect to 198.168.1.1 and run through the setup wizard. Then once you've got everything set up, read through the manual, go through the various setup options and tweak as desired. I opted to go with the WPA-PSK authentication protocol because its supposed to be more secure, but if you have other devices that don't support it, you'll probably have to stick with WEP. It can be laid flat on the desk, or propped up on end vertically using the little rubber feet that are supplied. There are 4 ethernet ports that allow you to connect via 10/100 Ethernet and the WAN port to connect to cable, DSL or LAN. The antenna is on a swivel and can be rotated to just about any convenient orientation. The only thing I don't like about the router is that it doesn't have an internal clock, so every time it is powered off the router's system time goes back to it's default start value. It can be configured to set the time from an NTP server, but only if it's connected to a WAN network (via DSL, cable or LAN). It's only a minor inconvenience though. The other thing is that the router's web interface only seems to work properly if you use IE. Using Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox sort of works for most things, but not everything.
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Summary: Flakey
Review: Look, this is an OK product if you do not use heavy networking. If you play games or fileshare, you may have problems. I bought one for ~$20 after rebate, and I'm glad I did not spend and more on it. Mine will start the cycle of rebooting every 20 sec until I reset the thing. This was caused only during load from the wired side. This should not be a hard load for a wired connection to handle. You may want to consider a Linksys. It is worth the extra money.
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Summary: MUST see Jack Szwergold's comment before installation...
Review: MUST see Jack Szwergold's comment on May 9, 2004 before installation (thanks Jack!). I happen to have read his comment on the cable speed setting (10Mbps) before installation, otherwise would probably have spent hours trying to figure out why Internet Explorer is not working after installation.
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Summary: Works well, but the wireless requires tweaking
Review: The "wired" part of this router works very well out of the box. The installation wizard runs smoothly and gets you on your way fairly quickly. It detected my SBC DSL configuration and I was on the internet within minutes. At the same time, I had just bought myself a new iBook G4, with an Airport Extreme 802.11g card. Getting the wireless to work was an excercise in frustration for a couple of hours. The documentation and online FAQ, as well as Google were all consulted to find a solution. What I ended up doing was disabling *all* security features in order to get any kind of connection at all, then re-enabling them one by one. In the end, it was the MAC address filter that was stopping the wireless connection from working. My configuration now has SSID broadcasting turned off and WPA-PSK turned on, for better security (this is called WPA Personal on the Airport configuration utility). In all, this device is a good deal, but take note of some of the gotchas noted in the other reviews.
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Summary: DHCP is incompatible with numerous NICs
Review: The DI-524's firmware is junk. Its internal router is completely unable to communicate with a number of NICs: . 3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 NIC
. Nvidia nForce2 onboard 10/100 NIC
. Realtek RTL8029AS 10 NIC
. Linksys EPSX3 ethernet print server The symptom is that the router does not hand out an IP to these NICs. One might think that manually setting the IP would work around it. It does not. The router will not communicate at all to these devices. I've diagnosed this for many, many hours. It's not the cabling or anything else in my setup. I have a Netgear router and it works perfectly with all those devices. I literally swapped the Netgear and D-Link routers and left all the cabling intact.
I've found one NIC using an Intel 21140 chipset that DOES work. 1 out of 5 is a darn poor success rate. D-Link's tech support is unresponsive, slow, and generally not helpful. After sending 3 emails, they finally responded saying basically "if there is a bug, our developers will release a new firmware on the web site". Great, no telling how long that will take.
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Summary: Excelent product - Excelent support
Review: The router itself is excelent, easy to install and works perfectly.
I had some problems with my internet connection because my dsl modem is also a router, I called D-LINK support and their service quality amazed me. After they easily handled the Internet connection, I called them again to setup the firewall and put one PC in a DMZ.
They were great, besides having log of everything they did to solve my problems and following me step by step till I have the issue solved, at the end they send me a report of the entire procedure, so if I need to do it again I can do it myself.
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Summary: Not ready for prime time
Review: This product is simply not ready for market. As a product developer for over 25 years I know when a product is ready to go to market and this ain't it. This device is not plug and play by any stretch. Look forward to spending more in time tweeking this device than the original cost of purchase. There are thousands of complaints on Google at this time and I anticipate that retailers are going to stop carrying this if returns reach a threshold of pain.
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