Rating: Summary: OMG this thing is Awesome!! Review: This little inexpensive router comes with what they call a Virtual Cable Tester. Basically it can tell you if there is something wrong with the ethernet cables you plug in to it. This is simply amazing that something this low costing has this. The few times I had a bad cable it took me hours to troubleshoot because I thought it had to be something else. But now if I have something wrong I can check to see if it is the cable or not, by just pressing a button. The best part is i didn't even know it had this 'till I brought it home.I am amazed at how well this little box handles everything. I play games, stream video & audio, voice chat, netmeeting, everything. And all of it works on this box. I love it.
Rating: Summary: Di-604 low cost, works just fine Review: After a solid months performace from the router I ran into a few problems with loosing connection and having to restart the routers. But after upgrading the firmware all seems to be working just fine now.
Rating: Summary: very good Review: i bought this router to hook up my laptop to the dsl service. it give fast and stable speed for my two computers. i like it. and the most important, the price is the lowest, compared with some other stores, such as bestbuy.
Rating: Summary: It simply works. Review: Extremely easy to setup, I set it up on a home network involving a Win 98, a Win XP, and a Mac OS X machine. It was virtually automatic to setup internet access to the three machines. VPN and port forwarding was also very nice for when I was running Overnet/Edonkey or running a FTP server to have certain files available for friends.
Rating: Summary: Wish it had a support and warranty Review: To D-link management: have enough decency not to have customers hang on phone for 6+ hours and have them listen to "we will be with you as soon as possible".
Rating: Summary: What A Piece Of Junk Review: If you want a basic DHCP server and want to handle DOS attacks, then spend the money on this device. If you want to use the firewall feature, forget it! Keep looking. The firewall feature and the IP filter features do not work, period. Yes, even with the latest firmware (2.18) this device defies the documentation that comes along with it. Did you call support, you ask? Just try. The D-link telephone support line is answered in what seems like a sweatshop in some remote location where the background noises indicate that they're also slaughtering chickens between calls. Once you convince the ill-trained level-one support staff that all of their canned scripts don't have any impact on the firewall issues, they'll pass you onto another support level where they have to call you back. If you're not at the telephone number at the momment they call for follow up, your support issue seems to be automatically sent to the black hole of issues. Try the headquarters or use the handy e-mail addresses on the web site you ask? They provide no response and no relief either. I'd have a better chance of getting a response from my kitchen sink. I am a information technology professional with 25 years of experience and I've invested about 20 hours of troubleshooting time on the DI-604, the firewall and IP scheduling features just don't cut it. I paid $$ for this matchbox and I am regreting every penny of it. Good luck to any of you using D-Link products.
Rating: Summary: Great Router For The Price! Review: The DI-604 is a great home router. It has a built in SPI firewall, and that is important in this age of the internet. the router also has some options that you would usualy only find in much more expensive routers like the port forwarding options and filtering. This would be a solid purchase for any novice or avid internet user. If you also want wireless check out the DI-614, it's the same as this router - but has built in wireless.
Rating: Summary: Works for me Review: I am an admitted newbie to the networking world. I only recently got cable internet, so a router was a pretty big leap. Having limited technical knowledge, the router was setup in a matter of 20 minutes. I was surfing on 3 computers with no problems at all!
Rating: Summary: Good product ..D-LINK rebates offers are shams Review: I bought this router and the DMC-200 to go along with it. They worked right off the bat after installation and re-registering the modem with my cable service. In got these specific items for the $10 and $20 rebates that DLINK had in March 2003. They say they never got my submission which is bunk ... I am very careful about rebates .. I sent my Tax software rebate in at the same time and got the check in 3 weeks. Not with DLINK. Good Product .. bad service and customer satisfaction. Buy from Linksys or Belkin next time!
Rating: Summary: Randomly Disconnects/Reboots/Won't hold the Time Review: I purchased this router about 6 months ago. Setup was extremely easy. I immediately upgraded to the newest firmware version. after a week or so, the router started to randomly reboot. I reverted back to the old firmware (factory specs) and the problem went away. Later, dlink released a new firmware that addressed this issue. For about a month, everything went fine. But....I have another issue now.... Every now and then, the router's date and time will go to random values. I can reset them back to the correct date and time, but it ends up reoccuring eventually. ANOTHER firmware upgrade fixed this for the most part..... I say most part, because the date stays correct, but the time is always 1 hour behind. I have even tried setting it 1-2 hours ahead, but it always ends up being 1 hour behind. I dont have it configured to get time from a time server, so I am clueless to why this is happening.
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