One week with the d-link dir-655

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Charlie Hustle

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As a few of you know that i had a slight misfortune last weekend when my linksys wrt54g died on me last friday. So, i had to get another wireless router but i was allowed to splurge a lil because wifee wanted me to be sure that this will last for at least 3-5 years. So, of course i went the N route. I didnt want to get just an N router, i wanted to get a very good N router. Well, she wouldnt let me spend 200 on a router, considering that i need a wireless N card to match, so i went with this.
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The selling point of this was the 4 gigabit LAN ports instead of the 10/100 in the others that were available.
Installation was easy, no headaches beside my old wireless g card which is in my masterbedroom wouldnt connect to it, so i went and got the wireless N card for 50 dollars. All of my other PC's (laptop in the kitchen and powermac g4 in the guest room) connects with no problems, and my 360 is hardwired to one of the lan ports since its in the entertainment center.
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this is just how my entertainment center shelf look with the router behind the pics.
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As far as speed, its nice to upgrade from 54mbps to 300mbps, i havent tried anything yet to transfer, but i will soon.
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Setup was also a breeze, from the interface to the wap security, and i love the save the settings feature to my host pc in case if i ever have to reset it or screw the settings up, i can just upload it.
Sweet
 
That's actually the router I have yet unfortunately was put away because my roommate started having headaches from the wifi signals.
 
During the first installation, my laptop's signal were dropped twice that day but immediately came back up. But ever since then, i've had no problems. Also older (or maybe cheaper also) wireless g cards will not connect at all, thats why i had to get an N card for my desktop, because the G card was from a very old pc.
 
Looks good....

I'm considering replacing my router with the DIR-655 primarily because it has the Gigabit Ethernet ports. (That, and I'm waiting for the 802.11n standard to finally become official... hurry up! ...)

You need to find a way to "torture test" the router... I want to see how well it works when everyone's using it.... :D
 
Actually it has been torture tested a few times. At any given time in my house there are at least two hosts active and four to five( including my xbox 360) hosts max (look at sig). My nieces and nephew are over for the weekend, so they will be all over the internet, it will be tested tonight. My main pc (master bedrrom) stays on, and usually the laptop in the kitchen will be occupied by my wife.
 
I have the same unit for a while. Which version of the firmware are you using? I'm using 1.03 but haven't tried anything newer because I'm afraid it might break things. I've read some reports some people going back down to 1.03 also.
 
i love the 655. it was a breeze to setup. i wish the usb port could be used for a hard drive though for some NAS luvin'
 
lan said:
I have the same unit for a while. Which version of the firmware are you using? I'm using 1.03 but haven't tried anything newer because I'm afraid it might break things. I've read some reports some people going back down to 1.03 also.
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Im using firmware 1.11 heres the link to whats included in the firmware, i would suggest that you save your router configuration to your desktop first. Then when you upgrade your firmware (please dont do it wireless) the router will reset to its default state. Upload the configuration from your desktop that you had saved.
Also, it would be wise to always save your router config to your desktop if you ever make a major change, just in case if something goes wrong and your router resets, you dont have to enter everything again. I just started using IP address reservation for my 5 hosts in my home, because its easier to see if anyone is trying to "hack" into my network. I know that if anything is using an ip address below 192.168.1.195, its not authorized by me.
 
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