Отзывы о Wi-Fi роутер D-Link DIR-815/S

I bought this to replace my Linksys BESFR41 cable/dsl router and Linksys WAP11 access point. Mistake! Everything worked fine out of the box, but my WAN performance went down 66%. With Linksys, I had Internet download speeds of 9742Kbps, but with this D-link Di-624M I get 3072Kbps. I can't get it to go any faster. I have switched back and forth between the two to no avail. What is the problem? Does anybody know? I'm wishing I wouldn't have bought it now. Wasted my money.

This would be a terrific router if it worked as advertised. The configuation screens are easy to understand and have a huge range of options. Wireless throughput, when it works, is fast and robust. The key phrase, however, is "when it works."First, the firmware usually crashes every time you save a configuration change. Upgrades have not solved this. If you're lucky you can recover by power cycling. If you're not, you have to hardware reset and start all over.Second, if you don't use a DLink receiver your wireless connection will cycle on and off about every 10 minutes.Finally, this isn't a problem with the router itself, but the "installation CD" is actually a 30-day demo for Network Magic, roping most users into needing the software. The manuals to configure the router yourself are PDFs hidden in the "bin" folder. That's outrageously unethical.If you have a DLink receiver and already know how to configure a router, this might actually be good. But Dlink doesn't deserve anyone's business for this product.

This router works great for me. I have setup at least 10 of them for clients and also use one myself at home without any problems. From my personal experience, I have to give it 5 stars and I'm about to order 3 more of them.

Wow. What can I say other than this has got to be one of the worst electronic purchases that I've ever made. The DWL-G650 is a pretty good PCCard, however the DI-624 router is absolutely horrid! From the moment I plugged it in it wouldn't quit rebooting itself every 1-2 minutes kicking me off the network. Firmware flashes didn't solve the problem at all nor did a replacement product. (Incidentally, Amazon.com was WONDERFUL about sending a replacement product). How D-Link gets away with selling this product is beyond me. I'd read similar reviews on the product with it constantly rebooting however I must admit that I'd written those off as the typical "home user" that really didn't know what they were doing. Well, as a network engineer and systems administrator at one of the world's largest computer companies, I have to throw my towel in to the absolutely worst network product I've ever worked with here in the DI-624. Please... avoid this router at ALL costs.

I'm on my third DI-624M. The first two were killed attempting to update to the newest firmware. Note that there is new firmware available on the D-Link website now. Previous reviewers have said there is not so apparently they finally posted some.Be VERY careful when you try to do the firmware upgrade! Even though the manuals and online instructions don't say anything about waiting a long time, after starting the firmware install you have to wait 10+ minutes for it to complete! No warnings, no progress indication, just a spinning hourglass on the web browser. If you interrupt the web browser, you just killed the router forever. Eventually, the browser times out and looks like it fails. After that, the router won't talk. After a few power cycles it finally started responding and worked with the new software intact. On the third router, that is! The first two were permanently killed by this process. Ridiculous.So at that point I had the latest firmware and the router worked fine for normal internet access. So I moved on to the next challenge - VPN access to my company network. My company uses Nortel's VPN. This router cannot handle VPN worth a darn. I spent hours talking to their tech support people, tried opening various ports, etc. and it never worked. My girlfriends VPN (different brand, I forget which) also won't work through this router.My old Speedstream worked fine for VPN right out of the box with no issues, no configuration changes, etc. Too bad it died or I'd still be using it.I guess I need to return this sucker and try a Linksys.Bummer. These things are so cheap now that they are practically disposable but I'd easily pay 2x for one that just worked consistently with no issues.

The gadget is just perfect. It is very fast and easy to install. I did not epxperience any problem. I can easily get full signals even from downstairs rooms.The delivery was also done without delay. It arrived earlier than I expected it.

Initially it worked for a while; then it started dropping connections. Every time it does, you need to restart the router to get it connected. This piece is a total waster -- Don't waste your money and time (on debugging it).

I had bought a D-Link wireless router, and later found that I chose the "b" type router. What a waste: 11mbs, bad reception, the works.I then upgraded to this router and found:- I no longer have any dead spots in the house- NO interference with the cordless phone- reception across the street!!- true 108 megabytes per second connection, BUT ONLY after I upgraded the firmware at the D-Link site. Upgrading was FREE and EASY, took only a few minutes.- Plug-n-play. I unplugged my old D-link router and just plugged in the new one. Turned it on, it aquired the internet instantly and it has WORKED FLAWLESSLY ever since.- My wireless currently supports 3 wireless computers and 1 hooked up via ethernet. I've turned on the WEP and had all four computers on the internet at the same time and haven't noticed it slow down, restart/reboot, or give us any problems. Two of the four computers were running a graphic-intense online game while I was downloading files on the others.- signal goes through walls as though they weren't even there! Even down into the basement!On my previous D-Link, I did have to call customer service twice (for WEP setup questions) and both times were for nightmare reasons on my end. The tech was patient and VERY HELPFUL, which is more than I can say for most other products.Anyway, signal is GREAT, customer service is GREAT, overall ease of use is GREAT, and you can't beat the price. I highly recommend this product for your wireless home network.

This is a great router in terms of speed and coverage. Once updated with the new firmware, the DI-624M has worked really well with "very good" signal, even through brick walls.While I was updating it, the firmware update page timed-out after about 30mins, though after refreshing the page, it was apparently finished.Unfortunately though, the router doesn't include Bigpond cable login client which is annoying since I have Bigpond. Also when I changed it's IP back to *.*.0.1 from *.*.1.1 (for ICS), the webconfig stopped working till I restarted it. Besides these two things, it's been great and I highly recommend it.Apparently it's better to update the firmware when the router's cool (turned off for a while and under a fan), and it is possible to fix bricked ones.

Having not read the reviews I picked up a 624M with a large rebate to replace my DI-524. I expected to pick up at least some additional range with my existing B and G equipment. The 1st one I brought home had a hardware problem, the second one with 1.0.1 firmware started out fine but after I tried installing the 1.20 firmware upgrade it no longer communicated with anything. The third, with buggy 1.0 firmware, would not let me clone the network adaptor's MAC address - as Comcast prefers - it insisted on incrementing the last number. The D-link service tech said this unit is basically a piece of junk and recommended that I take it back and get something else. Always a sucker for a challenge I managed to get it working with Comcast using its own MAC address about 30 seconds after hanging up from the tech. Then I added WEP, MAC address filtering, and virtual server inputs for my webcam. I don't dare touch the firmware, and was glad to see that it does clearly outshine the DI-524 in terms of range and stability (so far). I am using it with my existing wireless B and G equipment (PC, personal and work laptops, Axim X50V, DCS-1000 webcam, D-link wireless print server, & D-link DSM-320 Media Server). So far it works well with all of this equipment and with my HotSpotVPN account, and lets me connect sans wires just fine in all rooms of my 3-story house.

I've been working with 802.11 for two years now, setting up networks for friends, family and small businesses, so I'm fairly experienced. when I set up my networks, they are secure - 128-bit shared bit encryption, SSID broadcasting disabled and the end-all defense of MAC address filtering, which is how I configured this router. installation and configuration was a breeze, and the configuration options for this router cover just about any and every setting you could think of (VPN/PPTP support - excellent!). after a couple days of use, though, clients on my network started to suddenly and inexplicably stop seeing the router, right in the middle of active use. one client connection would go down while my other clients hummed along fine in full contact with the router. at another time, one client would see the router fine, put the client couldn't ping it. TCP/IP wasn't the fault, the loopback address worked fine, the problem lay elsewhere in the OSI model. disabling the NIC and re-enabling it (WXP) would solve the problem, though. baffling. since clients were randomly loosing contact with the router, I hunched that turning SSID broadcasting back on - against my security preferences - would solve the problem and, for now, it apparently has. at least I still have the power of MAC address filtering in place, so if someone really wants to try cracking the encryption and then spoofing a MAC address, have at it. my suggestion would be to move on since there a many easier targets out there, guys. note that all this applies to a DI-624 Rev C with the latest firmware (the upgrade of which was a snap). contrary to some of the other reviews here, I've found D-Link's tech support to be excellent - thorough, patient and able to actually support, but each situation is unique and your mileage may vary. I did have some problems getting my DWL-G650 PC card to operate at the advertised Super G transmission rate (it started off at 11 Mbps!), which I will write about under the reviews for that specific card when I get a chance. if you've been thinking about upgrading to a wireless network, I do indeed recommend D-Link's products (I keep all parts of my network under the same vendor for ease of support and a better chance of minimizing problems). if you're a novice user and aren't going to do advanced configurations like the kind I discuss here, I'm guessing there won't be a single hitch. and seeing as how I paid almost three times the cost of this router for my 802.11b router two years ago, the prices can't be beat. frankly, I don't see how they could get much lower. and the transmit speed of Super G is awesome - I stream mp3's off my file server all day long without any hiccups. I give the DI-624 a four star rating simply because nothing's perfect - as witnessed by the minor issues I had - but overall I definitely buy it again.

My original wireless network was pretty slow by today's standards so I needed to upgrade. I first tried a Linksys router and notebook card with their Speedbooster technology, but the notebook card would not work with my Motion 1300 Tablet. Using Amazon's wonderfully easy return procedures I returned the Linksys items and decided to try a DLink solution. As with other reviewers, I found it easy to set up and the range to be wonderful. I'm supposedly regularly getting 108 Mbs, which is great for LAN communication. This is in a location where I would regularly lose connectivity, so I'm thrilled with both the increase in connection speed and the reliability of the connection.I host some web apps on one of my servers and I REALLY appreciate DLink's ability to set up a static IP connection to that one server, so that I can route http requests to that web server (and not have to reconfigure the router if the power goes out).During this upgrade process and my (failed) experience with Linksys products, I've come to realize that some wireless cards just won't work with some laptops/tablets/notebooks. If you're fighting too hard with your setup, it's probably not you, it's probably incompatible equipment - send it back (again, this is incredibly easy with Amazon) and choose another manufacturer.

This is the most difficult product I've ever tried to deal with. And I'm technical minded. After over an hour of going through the same steps over and over, it would not configure. So at this point, I decide to give tech. support a call. On hold forever. And ever. Then, the rudest person came on the phone and told me to unplug this thing, wait five min, and try again. What the crap is that? If that is the only cracker jack advice you can give, GO OUT OF BUSINESS. When I said "I think I'll return the product" she said, "ok" and hung up on me. Simple as this: they didn't want to talk, so they give you crappy advice for a crappy product. PERIOD. If you buy this, you're a FOOL.

I wish there was a ZERO STAR selection. I am on my second unit, and both do the same thing: reboot whenever they feel like it.When I was on the phone with tech support getting an RMA for the first unit, it rebooted over two dozen times in 20 minutes. I just got the replacement unit installed today, and 30 minutes later it was rebooting.I have removed it and reinstalled my older DI-614+I have seen many posts on various sites across the Internet from people who have the same problem. Avoid the DI-624!!!

after frimware update, it completely stop working.Followed all the instructions correctly.Hard reset and did everything i can. I could not recover.Do not buy. bottom line.

I purchased the DI-614+ along with the D-Link DWL-650+ PCMCIA NIC card for my wife's laptop. Setup of the two devices was fairly straight-forward, but the wireless network is unreliable.Most of the time, my wife's computer is within 10 feet of the access point. Signal strength at this distance varies from "Excellent" to "Low". Also, if her computer is left on overnight, the wireless network is always down in the morning. The only way to resolve this appears to be by rebooting the router/access point. (This is an option in the web interface.) Needless to say, this is pretty annoying. If the computer were half way across the house, I would be a little more forgiving. But since it's within a few feet (with nothing in between them), I'm not so happy with it. At this point, I'm not certain whether the problem is with the access point or the NIC. Given that a reboot of the access point "resolves" the problem, I'm inclined to believe that it's the access point. Unfortunately, I don't have any more equipment to test this theory with.The rest of the review is somewhat technical. I want to make it clear that the default settings on the device allowed me to connect to the internet and wireless network without changes. However, I tinker with settings quite a bit. What is described below are my findings from these experiments.One oddity that I've encountered is that the wireless NIC seems to want to look for the access point on Channel 6 all of the time. (This is the default value on the access point.) I changed the channel of the access point to another value, and the network card would only recognize it occasionally. Once I changed the channel of the access point back to 6, though, the network card recognized the network every time the computer rebooted. (Note that even with this setting, the laptop still loses the connection on a regular basis.)Another problem I've discovered is that generating keys for WEP is not as straight-forward as it should be. With the latest firmware for the DI-614+ (version 2.0f) the access point does not allow the administrator to put in a pass code to generate the encryption keys. So, if you want to use WEP, you'll have to generate the encryption keys yourself and manually enter them into each of the wireless access cards. Of course, not allowing the pass code actually makes the wireless network more secure. But if you need the convenience (such as for a large network), you'll be out of luck.As a router, the DI-614+ fares well. Out of the box, the router works as advertised. All I did was plug my computer (on a wired network) into one of the ports and the cable modem into the WAN link, and everything worked. The default settings in the firewall are pretty secure, but UPnP was enabled by default and the router answered pings from the outside world. Fortunately, both of these options can be changed. In addition, the other firewall settings are very configurable (as expected).There are sections that allow the administrator to configure "Applications", "Virtual Servers", and other stuff. Several applications are preconfigured such as Battle.net and MSN gaming zone. These are disabled by default, but are simple to enable. (Note: The Battle.net configuration isn't complete, and won't work with Diablo II. You'll need to make some minor modifications to get this to work.)The "Virtual Server" section allows you to turn on ports such as 21 for FTP, 23 for telnet, etc. I was a bit surprised to see that port 22 (SSH) wasn't included. As with the applications, these are disabled by default and the administrator can enable them as he/she sees fit.The last section of the firewall configuration is a more "traditional" firewall configuration. In this section, two rules are pre-defined and enabled. The rules prevent all access from the outside-in and enable all access from the inside-out. These rules cannot be changed. However, rules that are added by the administrator override the pre-defined ones.One downside to the router, though, is that port 113 (identd) is visible to the outside world. I see no way to prevent the router from answering queries to this port. The response to these queries is that its unavailable, but I wish I could get it to just drop the packets instead.A quick recap of the review: the router works well and is very configurable (except for the identd port). The wireless access point, though, does not appear to be reliable.

I've owned this router for about a year. Its primary usage is light to medium home web browsing and Apple Mac <--> Windows XP PC networking. Since then I've upgraded the firmware twice. The latest firmware update added WPA support, a much needed replacement for WEP's mediocre wireless security. I've used the D-Link DI-624 on wired/wireless sessions with no problems. I'm using a Mac PowerBook aluminum on wireless to write this review. My current DI-624 setting using a Mac PowerBook is Super G with Dynamic Turbo (backwards compatible), 802.11g only enabled. I can't compare this to similar routers made by other companies, this being my only purchased router, but I'm satisfied with its performance and ease of use via browser configuration. There are plenty of professional reviews on the web, so be sure to read all you can before buying any brand of router. A router is an amazing device and I'd never use the Internet without one.As other reviewers have stated, the help files aren't the best. It would be nice to see a router help menu that stays current with each new firmware update and feature set. There is additional help information on D-Link's web site if you desire more information, such as settings for WPA and what it means for your home or business network. There was a bug in the configuration wizard in earlier firmware versions, but I'm not sure if it has been fixed since. Nonetheless, manual configuration is what I've always used to apply changes.I strongly recommend before you finalize your network, you apply any available firmware updates to both your router *and* computer hardware (wireless card). A router firmware update will wipe out any MAC filtering data, settings, etc. There are two firmware updates for this model, so be sure to note how to tell what file you need and only apply the correct one. Jot down information that you might need to enter after the update. Complete the router upgrade over a wired network, not on a wireless connection. Update your operating system and drivers first thing, as always.

I have had very good luck with dlink 802.11b routers so I was sure the new di-624m would deliver. I was very wrong. Coverage is very poor. The router would not work out of the box and required new firmware which took hours with the help of the tech line. The routers firewall does not stealth the ports on the router and only reports them closed. After many talks with the dlink tech line they stated what I already had figured out, "The router is not set up to stealth ports only to report them active but closed." I was told to look forward to another firmware update in the future. Stay away from this product and check out Linksys.

Excellent speed, with a very simple setup. Although I got into a problem with the install (no fault D-Link), I was able to quickly get through their helpdesk for tech support - and what I was helped by someone who I could actually understand (support was in California). Gotta love it when that is not outsourced!I used this in combination with the D-link 108 wireless NIC. Great range - easy to setup - easy to configure security.

I originally purchased this router in April. The original product on which this is based the DI-624 got excellent reviews. The 624M was supposed to be the same great product w/ MIMO support.Unfortunately, this is not the case with the original firmware. As mentioned in previous reviews, a new password would take several minutes to become active. The menu options would work intermittently, or not at all. The router would hang on several occassions. The ports would not stealth automatically as in the original DI-624.To top it all off, as of this writing, there hasn't been a single firmware upgrade/fix available on the D-Link support site to address these issues. This router has been available since at least January of 2005.I ended up returning this one, and purchasing the DI-624 instead. (No problems with that model at all.)

Here's the scoop with this product. The base product and card work fine. However my woes started when I tried connecting to my company VPN it would not work. I followed the instructions to enable it - but the some of the settings would not stick in the firmware. Finally I followed instructions to reset the box - a bad mistake. The system does not work - asks you to load a new firmware. When you go to the d-link web site there is no firmware. I contacted their support - they asked me to return it to my local store which I did and got a new box ....same problem. Now d-link acknowledges that the unit does not have any firmware to download ...basically this is an unsupported product. The d-link tech supports folks are sympathetic but the only thing they will do is to replace it with the same model type which of course is worthless to me.So my advise is to stay away from this product. It is a badly designed product with a fundamental flaw where the reset button destroys the firmware and worse there is no firmware that you can download.

Basic connectivity and wireless work. Any attempt to use advanced firewall rules fail including VPN passthrough. This device could not have gone through even a rudamentory test cycle. Please read the reviews, this is common and these problem were confirmed by my IT dept and also by D-Link's tech's as well. On second one, all of the exact same problems.Sad to have made a choice, hope they make it right.

I used to love D-Link so I replaced my old "b"-band di-614+ with this "G"-band Xtreme di-624 and what a day and night.I would give some stars for it's performance and features but the hassle dealing with its problems is not worth it.Go do a Google search for "d-link di-624" and you would read from countless victims of this product.It works great when it chooses to. But sometimes it just does not want to connect with the cable modem. Or it just keeps restarting every few minutes like most users have complained. It also seemed that one must use a special "crash recovery" method to load the newest firmware (2.50). Either firmware for my Rev.C router yields the same results. Normally a couple reboots with manual network cable disconnect/reconnect would make the router 'fly' again but would not stop me from constantly turning my head to the modem to check for connection light.I would spend a little more and give up some features for a stable and worry-free router. I would even consider buying the old "b"-versions but not this junk. I think paying consumers really want a stability and a worry-free, or at worst a fixable router.

I did quite a bit of research on wireless routers before finally going with this product from D-link. Security wise, you shouldn't have to worry, b/c not only does it have WEP and WPA-PSK features, it should be fully compatible (thru a firmware update) with the new security standards coming out with the 802.11i upgrade this summer. It also allows VPN passthrough, so I was able to connect to my company's network from home.I am pretty familiar with computers, though knew nothing of wireless routers on my setup. The setup was easy, and the web interface easy to use, though I have yet to explore all the different options. Overall speed is very fast (used in conjunction with the wireless card DWL-650), around 40 MBPs on the first floor (80% signal strength), and ~ 30 mpbs (70% signal strength) upstairs. Range is good, although strangely, I only get a 60% reading 1 foot from the base station. I live in a large brick house, with perhaps one other wireless connection from my neighbors.I did encounter the trademark problem of initially having the router reboot every few minutes back to April 1, 2002. If you read the boards carefully, it's recommended that you do a full factory reset (some junk leftover on the memory needs to be cleared out), and make sure that you hold the button in for at least 30 seconds, leaving the power on, then off, then on again. By then, the load firmware page should appear on the web interface, and you can load the latest firmware (2.48 I think). (After loading the firmware, it doesn't tell you when it's done, so you'll have to go ahead and reboot both your computer and the router.)Also, disable any built-in internal wireless cards you might have; I had an Intel Wireless Pro 2100 on my IBM Thinkpad that was causing problems with the functioning of the DWL-650.After applying those two fixes, my network has been running flawlessly. Tech support is 24/7, and I got help from a very helpful tech that was fortunately based in the US! I intend to buy the signal booster and usb wireless adapter (for my printer) to eventually establish a true wireless network.Am very happy with the products!