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Summary: A great product for a simple home network!
Review: After reading some of the reviews here, I thought I should get my own 2 cents in here. It seems that some people have forgotten that this product is marketed toward the owner of a simple peer-to-peer network. If you want to get complicated, you should never expect this thing to work perfectly. Simply put, it was marketed for simple applications so that the unit itself would be simple and easy-to-use. I installed it in my home network with absolutely no problems at all. It took me about 30 minutes to configure 2 computers and both now work perfectly. This thing really beats using ICS to proxy my connection. I found that my ICS client computer went much faster with the D-LINK ICSHARE than with ICS. Plus, now I don't have to leave the computer on all the time to keep my internet access alive. I highly recommend this to anyone running a simple home network. If you want to complicate things with your own DHCP server, etc., this might not be the right product for you.
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Summary: Good while it works... but warranty is honored.
Review: D-Link honors their warranty if you keep after them. The first one of these I purchased worked for about 5 months and then just stopped working. Sent back for repair under warranty and it eventually was returned after several phone calls and about 6 weeks. In the meantime I bought a second DI-701 (my wife kept pestering me about getting back on the Internet via our network) and installed it. Sure enough after about 5 months the 2nd unit just stopped working. Put the 1st unit back in place and was up again immediately. Sent 2nd unit back for repair under warranty with same eventual replacement after several phone calls to follow up. With my "hot" spare available the DI-701 seems to work just fine for me - set up is easy and it just works; as for real security this probably isn't it but then do you really know how to change the settings to make it really secure and still be able to surf the net? Average user - probably not. Better than no firewall certainly and makes it easy to share your connection - at half the price of most other gateways. You could do worse!
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Summary: Good while it works... but warranty is honored.
Review: D-Link honors their warranty if you keep after them. The first one of these I purchased worked for about 5 months and then just stopped working. Sent back for repair under warranty and it eventually was returned after several phone calls and about 6 weeks. In the meantime I bought a second DI-701 (my wife kept pestering me about getting back on the Internet via our network) and installed it. Sure enough after about 5 months the 2nd unit just stopped working. Put the 1st unit back in place and was up again immediately. Sent 2nd unit back for repair under warranty with same eventual replacement after several phone calls to follow up. With my "hot" spare available the DI-701 seems to work just fine for me - set up is easy and it just works; as for real security this probably isn't it but then do you really know how to change the settings to make it really secure and still be able to surf the net? Average user - probably not. Better than no firewall certainly and makes it easy to share your connection - at half the price of most other gateways. You could do worse!
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Summary: Pretty Simple, but.....
Review: Easy to setup. Not the best user interface in the world, so, if you're looking to get one of these, spend the extra $$ and get the DI-704. The DI-704 has a better interface to enable/disable ports for gaming, sharing files, etc...
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Summary: Pretty Simple, but.....
Review: Easy to setup. Not the best user interface in the world, so, if you're looking to get one of these, spend the extra $$ and get the DI-704. The DI-704 has a better interface to enable/disable ports for gaming, sharing files, etc...
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Summary: Warning! Does not work with all cable modems.
Review: I attempted to get this working with the 3COM "sharkfin" cable modem and Optimum Online's cable service. No connection was possible. D-Link suggested that the problem was the ISP and not the router. I found that most unhelpful as a direct connection worked perfectly well. The router is now gathering dust and I am using Win 98SE's Internet Connection Sharing. Don't waste your money on this product.
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Summary: Great peice of gear
Review: I bought the first DI 701 for testing on my office LAN, and had it up and running in 10 minutes. I was so impressed with it, that I bought one for home, then three more for remote sites.It works very well with all applications, is very fast, and is extremely secure vs. a basic software firewall. I have done extensive testing, and I was unable to gain access to a LAN secured with this product, using multiple security auditing tools (Network security is my speciality). Troy Harnish, MCSE, CNA, A+
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Summary: Good basic security, support average buy no IPSec support
Review: I can only agree with those that say the DI-701 does what is advertises. If you are a simple SOHO user then this is a good product. Where D-Link does fall short is in thier e:mail online support and being responsive. I wait sometimes 2 weeks to get an answer and then it usually does not solve my issue. When calling in they are at least a little better, but no 800 and being on hold on my nickel is hard to bear. And last but least, when I purchased this product last summer, they told me IPSec would be supported in a firmware upgrade in Spetember. When that did not happen, they said by Christmas. I called and and they said the latest firmwars supports IPSec, sorry it does not and after 2 weeks of fighting it, they confirmed they were wrong, and still no date for the support. In summary, if you do not need IPSec or use the advanced functionas and want the firwall, it is a good unit.
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Summary: Zero Stars -- Buy Linksys Instead
Review: I had one of these (D-Link DI-701) and had endless intermittent problems with it... the connection was just flakey, is the best way to describe it. Also, there was a big security hole (perhaps fixed by now) in that its admin telnet port was fixed (at 333), visible from outside the firewall, and vulnerable to a brute-force attack (as there was no delay in password guess attempts, no login username required, and the password was limited to 6 characters). These are "rookie mistakes" and disqualify D-Link from serious consideration as a network vendor. The stuff is just too complicated to trust someone who doesn't really know what they're doing. I ended up sending the thing back (not to Amazon, another vendor) and buying the Linksys Etherfast unit, which costs a bit more but is rock solid (and includes a couple of switched Ethernet ports, to boot). Several of my friends use that with success. Save yourself some time, and buy the right thing in the first place.
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Summary: Zero Stars -- Buy Linksys Instead
Review: I had one of these (D-Link DI-701) and had endless intermittent problems with it... the connection was just flakey, is the best way to describe it. Also, there was a big security hole (perhaps fixed by now) in that its admin telnet port was fixed (at 333), visible from outside the firewall, and vulnerable to a brute-force attack (as there was no delay in password guess attempts, no login username required, and the password was limited to 6 characters). These are "rookie mistakes" and disqualify D-Link from serious consideration as a network vendor. The stuff is just too complicated to trust someone who doesn't really know what they're doing. I ended up sending the thing back (not to Amazon, another vendor) and buying the Linksys Etherfast unit, which costs a bit more but is rock solid (and includes a couple of switched Ethernet ports, to boot). Several of my friends use that with success. Save yourself some time, and buy the right thing in the first place.
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