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Summary: Fast, Reliable, Easy Set-up and Ready for the Future
Review: This is another great router from the D-Link Wireless Router Family. The difference from this one and the more popular DI-713P is that the DI-714 has detachable Antenna for future utilization of bigger and stronger Antenna. This would allow for a much stronger signal and a bigger area in which you can establish a connection. This would come in handy for larger homes, or small offices that have many walls or interference.
Although the DI-713P has a built in Print Server, you might be like me and already have a Print Server on your network. The DI-714 seems to have traded it's Print Server for an extra Ethernet Port. In my book these two trade offs are just what I needed. I just don't want to wait so long to get the bigger and better antenna.
The Set-up and configuration is very easy with the DI-714 because it is all HTML based and you can access it from any computer on the Network with a web browser. And the built in firewall is a bonus. I was running a software based firewall, but now I don't need to with my built in hardware firewall.
Everything has been coming up D-Link these past months, and I always check to see if they have something that can fit my needs first. And I highly recommend this product.
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Summary: Do not buy this product
Review: This is the worst product I've encountered for the computer. Not only was it a difficult installation, but the tech support disagreed with each other on various calls, although they were nice. It took 8 calls before they informed me that this product does not work with Toshiba Satellite laptops. Yes, it does not work with my laptop and they don't know why nor do they state so in the manual (let alone on the box). I took it back and bought a Siemens Speedstream and had it up and running in 30 minutes.
Rating:
Summary: Fly By Night, mediocre at best company
Review: This Router (like most of their products) is the product of
a company founded on widespread mediocrity. As a Network security Engineer, and even more importantly,
the guy that many people try to keep up with technologically
I have to say that D-Link has successfully embedded themselves
in the technology market. They are the company to buy from if
you don't mind paying an average price for below average
quality. If you want a real broadband router try Linksys they cost
about the same but are better overall. I think D-Link needs
to narrow their product range and put more effort into
their product quality as they seem to be spread too thin.
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Summary: D-Link 714 wireless router our experience
Review: We have been running a home LAN using a combination of borrowed ethernet cards connected using isolated sections of cable TV coaxial cable inside the walls, and ethernet cable stapled to the ceiling. This has not been the prettiest LAN in existance, but until recently, it worked well and didn't need a router. Recently though, the system quit working. Possibly the rabbits who live downstairs had something to do with the unreliability of our coaxial cable. A wireless network made the best sense for us. After doing quite a lot of online research about our options, I narrowed the field to the Siemens router and the D-Link 714. The D-Link has had nearly universal good reports. We bought it and two Linksys WMP-11 PCI cards. We had no trouble installing the router. My 15 year-old son ( the most eager to get back online) did it in a little over 20 minutes. The router defaults to settings that match our needs well. We are sharing a connection to a cable modem with a dynamically assigned IP address. We updated to the latest firmware quickly and easily using D-Link's Website. Installation of the WMP-11 cards went easily as well. The two remote computers are located about 30 ft from the router and receive a strong signal consistantly. The router control interface is a webpage at it's default local IP address (192.168.0.1) and allows administrative access to all the router's features. One thing that I was suprised to see after the router had been on for a couple of days was the number of port scanners and other attemped incursions on our system that were detected and blocked. Without a router ( and it's firewall) we had been unaware and unprotected. I think that may explain some of the peculiar problems we have been having on our computer in the past. In summary, the D-Link 714 was shipped quickly, installed very easily, and works very well. I highly recommend it.
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