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Summary: Winner!
Review: This product is a fabulous deal for the money. I had it hooked up in seconds and configured in minutes. Connected to a 3Com shark fin cable modem with no problems. It is working exceptionaly well routing for 4 different machines running Win95, Win98, Win2000 Professional and Linux7.0. This one is a real steal if you get the rabate as well.
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Summary: Upgrade your firmware! Very important.
Review: This router has problems out of the box, but upgrade your firmware now, and keep it upgraded and you'll not see any of the problems listed in the reviews. You can assign to specific ports all you want, there is no 48 hour hang, its all fixed....
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Summary: Poor performance on @Home cable modem
Review: This router has the same problem as the SMC 7004ABR. When used in conjunction with older Motorola cable modems and @Home, it has serious lag for each tcp connection. For example, a web page with 30 images (no matter what size) will take almost a minute to load. The solution: get an SMC 7004BR (not ABR) or 7008BR. In other modem/isp situations it is probably just fine. Also, someone else posted about only being able to map certain well-known ports through the firewall (FTP, HTTP, etc.), with no capability to do it by port number. The solution is to use the optional Telnet interface, which allows mapping by port number.
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Summary: Great for the Money
Review: This router is extremely easy to use. It was easy to configure, and has functioned flawlessly for me so far. The only thing keeping the item from getting 5 stars is the built-in firewall. I would deem that part completely useless. It may be blocking incoming attempts, but the logging mechanism is absolutely worthless.
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Summary: Good product, good price, great performance
Review: This router was very easy to set up and configuration was a breeze. You just plug in your home network and you're good to go. One thing I didn't like about this unit was the fact that the switch on the back (which determines whether the router will act as a switch and a router or just a router) was set to disable the switch function by default. But that's only about a two second delay in setup :) Configuration can be through your web browser but the unit is also accessible through telnet. NAT, DHCP, DMZ, and an integrated switch and firewall make this unit a steal for this price [...], so pick one up today!
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Summary: Fair Product TERRIBLE documentation.
Review: This router works fairly well and supports Universal Plub and Play, which, if enabled in your Windows XP system, can greatly simplify installation. However, the documentation is abysmal for the unit as supplied and completely non-existent for the firmware upgrade which is required for the UP&P support. To further compound the problem, the manufacterers website simply reiterates the lousy documentation, being no help at all.
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Summary: Fair Product TERRIBLE documentation.
Review: This router works fairly well and supports Universal Plub and Play, which, if enabled in your Windows XP system, can greatly simplify installation. However, the documentation is abysmal for the unit as supplied and completely non-existent for the firmware upgrade which is required for the UP&P support. To further compound the problem, the manufacterers website simply reiterates the lousy documentation, being no help at all.
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Summary: Max throughput == 5MBit.
Review: This switch has one *very* serious drawback, which it also shares with the more recent 704: a maximum throughput of 5MBit/s. That means that if you have a faster connection than that (I have 10MBit) the remaining bandwidth is simply wasted. For me, transfer rates immediately dropped from 1.3Mbyte/s to 650KByte/s when I plugged this device in. Like most of D-links gear, ie their laughably slow & buggy wireless routers, this device simply does not live up to its specs. Avoid.
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Summary: D-link 804: a waste of time and money
Review: To the best of my ability to discern, the DI-804 is an inferior product. I strongly recommend against buying it. I tried to get the router to work with a DSL connection for 2-months before finally giving up. The router works for a couple of days and then quits. Turning the unit off and on worked for a while, but it has completely died now. Even if the product did work, I would still recommend against it. The documentation is horrendous, both the printed and web versions. Many basic features of the product are not discussed at all. Finally, the telephone support was useless. After being placed on hold for 30 minutes, I was dropped into voicemail. Not suprisingly, my message was not returned.
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Summary: More garbage from D-Link
Review: You've read it all already so here's my 2 cents. D-Link continues their tradition of shoddy construction and flaky configurations. Go with Netgear or Linksys instead.
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