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Summary: D-Link need improve their product quality
Review: Bought a D-LINK wireless router and D-LINK USB adapter. The hard wired LAN works but the wireless adapter can't connect to the router. After hanging on the phone with D-LINK support people for whole night, finally I gave up. I borrowed an Efficient Networks router to test the USB adapter, it works fine. Good luck to the people who want to buy D-LINK product. If works, go to buy lottery ticket.
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Summary: Incredible Range, simple setup
Review: The DI-713P was simple to setup. Pretty much it was plug it in and go. The only trouble I had was getting it to talk with my DSL modem, but I think that was more the fault of my modem. Once I switched the WAN connection to a static IP address, it worked fine.The range is incredible. My laptop can connect anywhere in my 2 story 1600 sq. ft. house. I even took it outside and can reach the network anywhere on my property and even by my neighbors house! I am very impressed with its range.
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Summary: I cant' get this to work!!
Review: i followed every word of the instruction but can't get the PC Card connect to it. I tried other 3 PC Card (diff. brand). No dice. I tried another D-Link 713P. Wired! It seems that everytime I switched AP, my PC card had signal but very unstable. But after a while the singal was gone again. Then by switching to another AP, the singal was back. Forget it! I got a more expensive Linksys AP (w/ 4 port switch). Plug and play! Better user interface and better looking (I think). I was lucky that I was able to get a very good deal at amazon ...! ...
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Summary: No Support for VPN Pass through
Review: D-Link made a false promise when they said it supports VPN Pass through (PPTP) because it simply does not. I could not get this thing to work with my and my wife's work VPN. Tech support is available 24 hours but what is the point if they don't know what they are talking about. This product is great if your plan does not include connecting to a VPN behind another firewall.
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Summary: First unit defective - 2nd worked out-of-box
Review: The first unit I got worked on wired network but wireless did not.
According to FAQ on d-link page (their phone support does not exist!!!) I upgraded the frmware. After that unit died compeltely.
I sent it back to amazon and they sent me a new one. The 2nd
one worked immediately after connecting.
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Summary: Works as it's supposed to.
Review: I read the mixed reviews posted here after having read very positive ones online, so I was a bit hesitant,...rebate convinced me to at least give it a try. To my pleasant surprise, it has worked as it is supposed to. I plugged it into my fixed IP DSL line, changed the IP on my desktop computer, and used the web interface to make the setting changes for the d-link. The only hiccup was the instruction to "restart" - I restarted my computer twice (to no effect) before I realized that the web interface had its own "restart" button; once I did that, life was fine. I then set up my laptop's wireless controls, and I was set to go. Including all the restarts, I was running in less than 30 minutes. The range is good even though I keep the d-link on a shelf of a cabinet under the desk. I can access the Internet with my laptop from anywhere in the two-story house except the farthest corners where the signal has to penetrate at least five walls. I would give it five stars if it weren't for the documentation. The Quickstart guide doesn't always jibe with the more detailed manual, and I suspect that if I hadn't already learned about playing around with network settings when I set up our DSL, I would have taken longer than 30 minutes to figure it all out. In short, I'm happy I bought the unit.
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Summary: Sucks
Review: Well.Wired part worked out of box.Wireless did not - neither for ORINOCO nor for my Addtron card (bothw orked with Linksys WAP11).
So I upgraded firmware - no effect. I found on dlink page in FAQ
that I should downgrade the firware. I did it -after that unit does not respond at all. Also D-link support [stinks] - there is no phone support! Just e-mail.
And do not believe in whatis written on the box 24/7 i it just to 6PM PST - nothing after that time. Jacek
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: I read some of the reviews and figured I'd try it. I have been using the Linksys routers for quite some time ,But for [the money], you can't go wrong. I would recommend downloading the the newest drivers & bios updates before you begin ( especially for XP ) I also used the DWL-120 USB adapter.(Also highly recommended) It took 2 calls to tech support to get it going, which took no more than 5 minutes each call. Once they had to call me back, which they did within an hour. I must say, it works much better than I thought. It is located in my basement and my sons PC is on the 2nd floor and I still have a great connection signal. The print server is just an added bonus.
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Summary: Quest for the Rings
Review: Someone said installing one of these things is 'not intuitive'. Well put. I started with an Orinoco system. They had so little documentation it seemed like you could just plug it in and walk away, wireless. No. That wireless router went back. This one has much better documentation. The snag I ran into is 1) my ISP uses the MAC address of the NIC to verify I am getting their service. (You follow this, right?). So, well, to get the router to work, you simply have to clone the MAC from the NIC to the router. Time to click "clone" button. Oooh, two seconds. Time to research what the heck an MAC is and how my ISP uses MAC. Well, two weeks, but I slept and ate and worked. Anyway, the MAC issue aside (won't apply to many), the other problem is the DHCP. Isn't that a great word, or acronym. I pronounce it, Duh Hiccup. Point is, this mean Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Dynamic means it does all the work and you head off to your favorite site. Downside is that if the DHCP WON'T self-configure, you have to do all the work. Yuck. Well, in XP, doing all the work means putting the DNS address for the router into the network settings. This is basically a 192.168.0.xxx sort of thing, and then 255.255.255.0. So it may not be a big deal The other problem I found was in IExplorer. When you go to Tools and Settings and LAN, you get some choices that are beyond my comprehension. When I worked through this, I got the thing to work, but there was a proxy setting I don't understand. It works when you get it to work. It's not intuitive. Check the networking sites if you want to get a little educated up front.
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Summary: Good, but not perfect
Review: I agree with many of the other reviews of the DI-713P. I also bought the DLink 650 PCCard, which made my out of the box expierence great. My only complaints are not having a good version of the app that runs on the client, and a failure of the DI-713P to pull a good IP address from my cable provider (Road Runner). I loaded the driver for the 650 on my laptop OK (both from the CD and a newer version from the website), but I just couldn't get a version of the app to run without bluescreening my Win2000 Compaq M700. Not a show stopper, but it did prevent me from getting signal strength readings from different parts of my house. My second issue is that the router won't pull a valid IP address and config from the ISP. I would release and renew, but it always came back with an address in the 10.0.0.0 address space. I did download and apply the firmware upgrade for the router, but still no luck. I had to pull an address from my desktop and then manually enter that information in the router, but I know I'll lose that when my router doesn't renew the lease with the DHCP server. I do feel it's something that I am missing though and will keep trying. The web admin interface is great. Easy config of all of the features of the unit, except I couldn't find how to enter the "passphrase" for WEP, only the keys manually. This made WEP impossible as I could only enter the passphrase on the client and no keys, as the client app would not load. Again, maybe it's just me. I still would buy another one and encourage everyone else to as well. Great buy.
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