insomx
Premium
join:2003-01-26
Canada
2 edits | Funny
I don't have problems with mine :S
You'd think D-Link would test it though before they realeased it. I have had it knock off for once a bit but it wasn't anything I cared about. Other thent this one bad router, Dlink is a good company. |
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ViniTheHat
Hat Trickery
Premium
join:2002-09-29
Brooklyn, NY | last post! |
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ool user
@nychhc.org | ool works good with ool
I have never expericenced a problem with mine either and I have ool in brooklyn, ny |
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midryder
@sbc.com
|  Well I'll be, the 614+ firmware works (3.35)
Have a DLink 614+, had to back down firmware upgrades twice (3.20)would reboot itself during an upload. the 3.28 was a disaster!, it would just sit like a lump and reboot every 30-80 seconds, could not surf that way. Back to 3.20. They came up with the 3.35 firmware, everything changed to working like it should, can upload without a reboot happening. Finally! Only took about 7 months. |
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NGuru
@suscom.net | D-Link still in business why?
"D-Link is still a good company". Hardly. I've gone through.. what has to be 20 D-Link wifi products at the office where I work, every single one is a piece of garbage. I sent them all back, and got Linksys, which has all worked without issue. |
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midryder
@sbc.com | reply to midryder
Re: Well I'll be, the 614+ B firmware works (3.35)
Clarification, Thats a DI-614+ Rev "B" 3.35 |
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X_Zeratul_X
join:2003-07-28
San Jose, CA
| reply to NGuru
Re: D-Link still in business why?
My friend bought the di-624 and told me on the phone. I started laughing at him and he got all mad. "The guy at bestbuy told its faster it even says 108 on the box and the linksys said only 54!"
After 10 hours of trying to get it to work I just simply told him to return it and we went back to bestbuy and bought the 'slower' linksys g router. Everything in his house worked fine after that hehe |
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CTS
Premium
join:2001-12-23
Bayside, NY
clubs:  
| reply to midryder
Re: Well I'll be, the 614+ firmware works (3.35)
Hmmm well mine doesn't work... 3.35? Hmmm, maybe I'll try that (but the last time I checked, I had the latest firmware) It definitely sucks, if that doesn't work, time to get a new wireless router.
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Tomek
Premium
join:2002-01-30
Brooklyn, NY
 ·Packet8
| DLINK != quality
I invested in their products, because they looked nice and had a nice set of features, plus the price was fair. Now I regret my choice. My router (DI-704P) would stop responding with no configuration access, so I had to reset it. Router manages my LAN, so when I'm away, I cannot watch it all the time in case of something going wrong. Also, the most useful tools actually don't work. My AP works fine so far, but I can't have TURBO and there are some WPA problems. I don't know what to blame, card or AP (both DLINK). When it comes to firmware, there is always something wrong with it.
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CTS
Premium
join:2001-12-23
Bayside, NY
clubs: | reply to CTS
Re: Well I'll be, the 614+ firmware works (3.35)
Scratch that, opting for "G" |
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p51d007
Naa-P51d Mustang
join:2002-06-07
Springfield, MO
| guess I've been lucky
I've got the older 614+(dual antenna). I haven't had
any issues with it. I've got the 2.20 firmware, and it's
been hummin' along without any problems. I don't need
108meg speed, not that you would ever see anything close to
that 
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koitsu
Premium
join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
| Ex-D-Link user.
I can talk for days about D-Link products, and just how absolutely unreliable they are on a firmware level. But I've had mirrored experiences with 3Com and Netgear as well.
These companies either repackage third-party routers (Netgear = Zyxel, D-Link = Some Chinese vendor who also sells their units to Trendware), and sell them under their own brand name with a couple firmware tweaks -- 3Com actually makes their own. There is absolutely NO QA for these things; they may work for the average college dorm room idiot, but when it comes to actual stability and needing features that make NAT useful, they fail miserably.
D-Link in particular has wonderful flaws in "their" IP stack too, causing the unit to reboot on certain types-of malformed IP packets. This is something no one should put up with. Hardware-wise, D-Link's home routers are pretty decent, but as has been proven time and time again, everything boils down to the software driving the hardware.
After going through 6 different router brands and models, I finally ended up saying "screw it" and going with the Linksys WRT54G -- which, for the record, runs embedded Linux. I've been absolutely thrilled with this unit, as it has yet to fail me in any way shape or form. It's reliable as hell, stable, and has more features than I can count. The source-code was also released to the public by Linksys/Broadcom, and there's a project called wifi-box which has taken up making unofficial firmwares which are absolutely fantastic. I've donated money to the project, and also plan on dedicating some of my time to fixing up a lot of the nasty HTML in the UI so that it renders quicker and more reliably in non-IE browsers.
My condolances to all the D-Link DI-614+ and DI-624 users. I know exactly what you're going through, and my only recommendation is to buy something else (see above) and sell the D-Link unit you have on eBay.
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SoCal99
join:2004-01-22
| No Party Trick
Having the router reboot every time the phone rings is a REAL PAIN IN THE ASS! I've seen 4 fw versions since I first purchased it and none have addressed the issue! And when the router reboots it reboots every 6-7 seconds until you hang up the phone. The problem is, that it not only effects the wireless connection but you lose all the wired connections while in the reboot cycle from hell.
I'm not sure what's worse, Dlink's refusal to address and fix the problem, or the idiots that feel the need to defend Dlink and call the phone reboot issue "normal behavior". Ok its Dlink refusal to fix the problem!!! |
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dbamber
join:2003-02-07
Payson, AZ
| D-link????
Have had the 614# for 15 months now. Have had an xp box, and an Apple G5 hooked up with ethernet cable, and a P3 600, and Apple ibook running on wireless with no problems hooked into my Motorola surfboard cable modem. Could a lot of these problems be caused by either the phone or cable companies? BTW, have just got our fourth bill for Vonage without problems there too. Again, could a lot of these problems be the fault of the cable/phone company? |
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Abbey Normal
|  Is my D-Link the only one that works???
I have a 614+ revision A - it has been very reliable. I use it with DLink client cards for the 22 MBPS speed. I have 5 PC's using it (2 wireless).
I have a friend at work who has a 624 - he has no problem at all. |
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ChangeYourChannelID
@comcast.n
| reply to SoCal99
Re: No Party Trick
Um... just out of curiosity, have any of you people who are having the "random resets" when your phones ring (I'm assuming you mean cordless, 2.4 GHz phones) try switching the channel ID that your router is operating on? Default is usually 6... try something like 4. Maybe your cordless phones are running on the same channel ID and interfering with it. |
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richard92683
join:2001-02-09
Santa Ana, CA | reply to Abbey Normal
Re: Is my D-Link the only one that works???
How come I have 624 and it works very good compare to the old Linksys didn't even get the max speed for my new Expert Plus package |
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Zoder
join:2002-04-16
Miami, FL
| reply to ChangeYourChannelID
Re: No Party Trick
The thing with that is people are reporting the problem with the phones only occurs when Super G enabled. Super G uses channel bonding so you can't change the channel from 6. Now you could just get around the problem by turning Super G off, but ironically, that's one of the major selling points of the DI-624. Otherwise, you could have bought the 524 which doesn't include Super G. |
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koitsu
Premium
join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
| reply to ChangeYourChannelID
I think the whole "rebooting when the cordless phone rings" thing is a shennanigan. I have a 2.4GHz phone which I used constantly while online with the DI-614+ and the DI-624.
However, much to the defence of those who DO have the reboot problem when 2.4GHz phones are in use -- I disable the wireless interface of all of my routers, simply because I have no need for it.
But, with that fact in mind, the D-Link units continued to reboot, especially when handling DHCP/BOOTP-related packets, particularly over the LAN (i.e. Static DHCP).
People need to realise that D-Link isn't even making these products, none the less the firmwares. They're subbing all of this out to the actual manufacturer of these units, who is located in China. Trendware is another company which buys the same units from the aforementioned Chinese company, except that Trendware's firmwares *WORK*. I find this very disturbing...
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b_zen
Premium
join:2002-07-24
Saint Louis, MO
clubs: | reply to NGuru
Re: D-Link still in business why?
E.X.A.C.T.L.Y the same situation happened here... Most of them we couldn't send back, but got Linksys instead, and it all works like a charm... |
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