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Summary: Junk
Review: I purchased this router thinking that d-link is reliable. (chuckling) Well I was wrong. I have had problems since day one. To begin with it would take anywhere from 3 seconds to over 3 days for it to connect to the WAN port when it booted. So to resolve this I called D-Link support figuring I just missed a step or something. I waited for twenty minutes for a rep to answer the phone. (Yes I updated the firmware prior to this call). Once I get on the phone the support rep was about unhelpful as you can possibly be and basically said send it back. So I exchange it for a new one, and stil have the same problem only now it randomally disconnects and still takes along time to reconnect (if it does) to the modem. I one bad device, OK....but two and I would say you have an issue with the product.I would stay away from this product. I purchased a 3com 4 port router to replace it, and it works great. All I can say is you get what you pay for and stay away from d-link for the time being.
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Summary: Simple, Reliable, and above all else. . . Cheap!
Review: The DI-604 is a great little router. Though I would never recommend that someone who knows nothing about configuring a router to try it on their own, this may be an exception. It has effective wizards and a remarkably user friendly interface that is accessed through your favorite web browser. The firewall seems to be effective, though my single complaint does come from that part of the device. I am yet to figure out how to shut it off when I would need to. . . But, it can be done. I share a DSL connection over this router. I also file share and print share through the device. It has done a great job at all of the above. I have recommended this product to countless people since I purchased it in September. epc
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Summary: D-Link Support is terrible
Review: I wanted to learn more about information about the advanced firewall features on the DI-604. I spoke to Chris Hernandez in Live Tech Support. From the moment I spoke to him, he wanted to get me off the phone. He told me that the advanced fire wall features would be too complicated to explain, and directed me to an FAQ on the web site. I thought this was very entertaining since my educational background is in computers. I again asked him if he could walk me through it. He again reiterated that he provided me the web site and basically was ready to terminate the phone call. At this point, I asked to speak to someone else or possibly his supervisor and he told me that no supervisors were working. He didn't even provide me a name of anyone to follow up with. At this point I was losing my patience and asked him again if he could help me, and informed his customer service skills were lacking. He then hung up on me. I plan to return this router and give Linksys a try. From other reviews I have read regarding D-Link, I would highly suggest others think twice about purchasing anything from D-Link.
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Summary: No problems here
Review: I wonder if not all DI-604's are the same thing. The picture of it here on Amazon[.com] looks nothing like mine, although the model number is the same. I have bought and installed two of these little puppies, one at work and one at home, and two of my coworkers have the exact same thing at their house, and we haven't had anything but good, reliable fast connections. For the money, I was expecting bare-bones, minimally-configurable NAT. This thing costs about as much as most plain old passive hubs, so I was very surprised at how many features, such as firewall pass-through rules, were supported. I'm even more impressed that they have all worked properly on the very first try. By the way, nothing requires you to use its DHCP server. If you want a static IP address, go ahead and take one. Just make it one that's outside the range of the IPs it will lease (which is easy to configure, too), just in case. DHCP service is optional. That said, its DHCP server works just fine too, without any delays that I can tell. In fact, it makes my Hitachi cable-modem look like a slacking flunky that falls asleep on the job all the time. If you have full-time broadband Internet service at home and you are connected with no protection and your OS is a Microsoft product, you won't be doing it for long, take my word for it. Spare yourself the aggravation of having to rebuild your machine after yet another worm attack and buy this little guy. It's ... insurance, and a minimally-trained monkey could set it up in five minutes.
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Summary: Solid Router for a Home Network
Review: Bought this router for my home network that runs on our Road Runner account. The router provides fast networking between the two machines, I have transferred a 600 MB file in under 2 minutes on our local network. I had a small problem with the install that was fixed by installing the newest firmware. Follow this advice in the instructions and do this step first. I get both fast upload and downloads without any problems. I like the light weight aspect because the router is hanging in mid-air between the printer and monitor. The mid-air positioning may be preventing some of the other errors that have been reported due to overheating. I have been using the router since mid-Decemember and have not experienced overheating or slow downs in data transfer. I had one problem when the setup software in the internet explorer would display the main screen but no links. I fixed this problem without resetting the router, but unplugging it from its power supply. Pete
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Summary: Avoid D-Link DI-604
Review: This is a cheap product. It only worked ONE day for me! When I have to reconfigure my network the second day, it just died. It took me more than half an hour to get a technical support guy on phone. We spent another 40 or 50 minutes in going through all the trouble shooting ideas he can thought of. The technical guy agreed that the router is defective and said level-two support would contact me in 48 hours. They never did. I contact them again, they made me go through the same so-called level-one support, and, again, promised me a level-two support. Of course they did not call me afterwards. And when I tried to return this piece of junk, I get to know the webpage of the company that I have to get some Return Material Authorization number by writing first. I know that this would probably take forever and tried to call them, but the calls never went through. By now my roommate and I have lived without LAN for over a month. Only one of us can enjoy DSL at a given time, thanks to D-Link. Avoid this junk, choose something more decent.
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Summary: Excellent product, excellent support.
Review: Since I got this router, I've been trying to set up my computer as an FTP server during the day. I had no luck, until last night. Of course, I had to break it to make it work(Note for ATT Broadband users: don't disable DHCP). So, after tech support with ISP, I called D-Link. The rep was very helpful. He got me connected again, and then helped me set up my router and machine so it could act as an FTP server. Everything works perfectly now, and I am very satisfied.
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Summary: very helpful tech support
Review: d-link's tech support was very helpful in explaining to me how to link all my computers (a PC with Windows ME, a PC w/ Windows XP and a Mac) on the network to each other so that we could share hardware and files. in my experience (two phone calls) the wait time was less than five minutes and the tech support people were knowledgable and friendly.
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Summary: The good, the bad.
Review: Research and reviews lead me to purchase the DI-604 over three months ago. There have been good weeks, and bad moments. The good is that the product exceeded my expectations of a router that was under $..., let alone $... Very powerful and configurable. Fully Universal Plug-n-play compliant and the web interface is well designed, straight-forward, and easy to understand without looking at the built-in help interface. All of this would have taken 5-stars. The bad are the lockups. When the going gets tough, and the data's flowing, OR things just plain-ol' heat-up, the router can fail. It could be something simple, in the form of the web interface returning the dreaded little pieces of paper with a red "X", indicating that the HTML couldn't find the picture. Worse trouble stops all incoming/outgoing data, yet allow data to flow on the LAN. At that point the router doesn't even respond to a ping. I recently took the two screws out that held the clam-shell together to find that there is only one, non-active, heat-sink on the processor. When I first touched the top of the fins I was startled at the heat this little thing was producing, and it was idle! I'm convinced this little unit has a bad case of heat-prostration, due maily to the lack of airflow from a poorly designed shell. I'm going to run a fan on the heat sink and perform some further testing to prove my point. Wish me luck. Would I recommend it? In it's current design...that depends. If my father were to buy this, definately NO. If a friend who knew at least what a heatsink was, I'd certainly warn him/her first. The catch here is the absolutely great price and performance the DI-604 has, and for this, it does shine.
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Summary: WoW !
Review: SO easy ! one computer windows 98 & the other windows xp home , I didn't even load the cd , hooked up cables ( one cable is 25 feet long ) , few clicks through the setup wizard and up and running in just a very few minutes , no change in cable modem speed , just as fast . Wish I had bought one of these sooner .
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