Отзывы о Wi-Fi роутер D-Link DIR-825/I1

FINALLY! In the past 3 months I've purchased 4 Netgear wireless modems and returned all of them. (One of them actually worked for about 10 minutes before dieing.)Since I was replacing a working DLINK DIR-615 I decided to take a shot with DLINK again and the DIR-825. My only regret is that I didn't do this to begin with. Installation was a snap. My only hesitation was in changing the default IP address from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.1.1 but that actually went well. Just reboot the router and the computer. (It was easier to change the software IP than to change the address of every device.)I had a problem connecting to the 5G wireless network. After doing some reading I realized that it wouldn't connect unless I was using a 5G adapter in the device I wanted to connect to. Fortunately one of my devices accepted both 2.4G and 5G signals and it recognized the band right away.So far I've been running the DIR-825 for about 20 hours and haven't had any problems. With that in mind I would highly recommend this product. Now all I have to do is figure out why Netgear tells me to use their on-line setup software when their router won't connect to the Internet where the software is located. DUH! (Catch-22)

I recommended the D-Link DIR-632 to my sister-in-law after researching it on Amazon. The features you get out of the DIR-632 for the price represented a great value. Unfortunately, there was a catch. The wireless performance was very flakey. Doing a Google search I got a lot of hits for other users who experienced the same issues with the AP disappearing (SSID vanishes from list of available wireless nets) and dropped connectivity. I'm not sure it's fixable with a firmware update but it would be nice if D-Link addressed these issues with one. The FW version listed on their website is still the same as what was shipped on the unit.I've tweaked a few settings and so far I'm getting good results. 802.11 mode changed to 802.11g only, set a specific channel (and unchecked channel autoscan), reduced the Beacon period, disabled QoS engine, disabled DHCP unicast support, and enabled multicast stream support. I suspect the beacon period change did the trick but I'm not going to mess with success at this point.If you buy this router, just beware of the wireless performance and be prepared to do some tweaking of your own.

This router has great hardware. It's the firmware that's in question. I didn't expect to have to flash third party firmware into it in order to make the wifi work reliably.After initial setup, it worked flawlessly... for about an hour. Wifi shut down, and I went online to investigate. I found that everyone has this problem, and the only solution is to flash DD-WRT firmware into it. I did so, and then spent the better part of two weeks trying to learn what all these wonderfull new settings were and how to use them. Now this is the best router I've ever owned, but it shouldn't have needed to be this way. If D-Link provided a workable firmware package with it, or even a revamped firmware to flash into it if needed, then I'd still have two weeks of free time back. I'm a bit resentfull of that, but at the same time thrilled to have learned all about DD-WRT.

I don't recommend this router due to it's poor signal range. When my daughter had it, she experienced periodic internet outages, but I cannot state for certain if this was the fault of the router. She did not noticed any problems with range because it was being used in a small apartment.When I switched from DSL to U-Verse, I had to move my primary router from the middle of our home to one end of the home. Neither the U-Verse router nor my old DI-524 could reach the other end of the house. When the DIR-825 became available, I found it was no better, so I decided to install the DD-WRT firmware to use the DIR-825 as a wireless repeater. After successfully setting up the router to receive the signal from my U-Verse router, I placed it where my DI-524 had been previously. Much to my surprise I could not connect with the DIR-825 from the room next to it. I was able to circumvent this issue by setting it up as a bridge. I then attached the DI-524 via ethernet directly into the DIR-825 and now have internet access throughout my home.In short, despite its features, the DIR-825 pales in comparison with the superior signal range of the DI-524. Too bad DD-WRT cannot be installed on the DI-524!

I've had this router for about 3 years now and its never failed me. I even had it outside under a little roof and it still hasn't given up. The signal is pretty strong, I can find the signal through a few brick walls no problem, using a smartphone. Even the firmware is pretty good with the exception of gamer priority which was a disappointment, but I think that may be because I had many people using it extensively.

I have own this router for three years or more and it worked very well, but I had replaced it with a Cisco RV220W, but after a 1 year on the Cisco I started having issues with vertual ports and dropped connections. SO I went back to the DIR 825 and everything worked good, then found that there was a couple of firmware updates. Now the router is even better, very solid and works with no issues. Someone mentioned setting up routers via the online setup and I noticed this as being the cases with many brands... What engineer thought this was a good idea? I don't like it and I'm thinking about purchasing another DIR 825 to avoid this. My Cisco RV220W was a great router while it lasted, but very dispointed that I would have to replace it with in less than 1 and a half. Not sure that I will buy another one since these units well over 300 USD. For what you get with the DIR 825 and now the lower price its a good deal, just whish it was gray or black rather than white, but better than the Linksys shaped like a UFO! I would buy the DIR 825 and I may buy a spare soon.

D-Link model DIR-835 is a defective product. After less than two months, it crapped out on me. After two hours or more on the telephone, trying to get the router working again, the customer service agent told us that the product was "defective." I resorted to the telephone hell of customer service only after the router had to be rebooted almost every day. If you hopefully think that the company will fix your router, it means that you have to pay the costs of sending the broken router to them at your own cost, and wait at least five days for any news of return. By the way, it seems that they try to "repair" the router you originally bought. Now, I ask you, who can get by with more than five days without an internet connection?

I was unable to stream high def Netflix wirelessly from the ground floor to my lower level theater. I tried a Linksys range extender and Cisco's wifi electric line solution. The D-Link istalled easily and, as advertised, broadcast a 5GHZ signal through walls and floors. HD Netflix at 1080p looks great on my JVC projector and 110" Stewart film screen. A great deal.

This was easy to set up and provides a wide array of uses. I use it as a media bridge with the D-Link 645 whole home router.They provide a complete wireless network from the 2nd floor into my concrete basement. The basement gets over 200 megs of throughput and dowloads are extremely fast. Good company with good support and easy to follow manuals

I bought this router to replace 2 4-port routers -- one wireless, one wired-only -- that were not performing up to my specifications. It was easy to install with the custom settings I needed. The instructions are a little lightweight, though, and won't be of much help to someone adding this device to an existing network that already has DHCP and DNS handled by another router. But just dig in and bring up the web interface to the device and you'll find all the settings you need.

I purchased the DIR-632 after reading dozens of reviews and personal experience comments on amazon, cnet and other sites. This one was the best middle of the road compromise of all the ones I personally investigated. It has great range; so far I can get a 98% signal in the far corners of my house, 40 - 50 feet away from the router and up one floor. It drops to 75% having to pass through 3 walls but still has a very good connection speed/transfer rate.It was very easy to set up (although the directions aren't clear, you do NOT need to have an internet connection to install if you choose to do a manual installation)though the directions read as if you do need a web connection to install.I would highly recommend this for any application (streaming video/music, web surfing, online applications, etc). My only caution are comments others have posted, even at Wireless N speeds, it may lag for online gaming.I have internal wireless G and wireless N in both laptops and have recently added the Wireless N Adapter RNX-N180UBE to my desktop unit for wireless connection there too. The wireless N USB adapter has given me 130 mbps download, 65 mbps upload speed from 50 feet away through 2 walls. I am pleased with the improvement over my dial up connection, but it still is not a T-1 connection.I do not see the router as the problem in my situation, but the wireless cards in the laptops. I could have spent 50 - 100 more for the router and as much for the usb adapter to get minor improvement. Overall, for most home applications (aside from gaming) I would highly recommend this D-link wireless N router.

I bought this router to replace an older D-link product. I have been disappointed ever since. The biggest issue I have with it is that it needs a reboot whenever the slightest change is made to the advanced configuration. This wasn't true of the older D-link, and having designed several routers myself it is not a problem with the specifications for a router. It's apparent that the firmware is so poor that they reboot every time simply to play it safe because their coders were unable to design a running configuration change. Now I'm having problems with the QoS screen refusing to save because of some protocol number when all I'm trying to do is turn QoS off - it was sloppily done and doesn't work right. Buy something else, spend a little more if you need to, but don't buy this.

(03/04/12) I saw a few bad reviews and a few good ones so I decided to try my luck as I really needed a couple of extra ethernet ports. I have 2 telephone lines, 2 tvs, a network drive, and a pc connected via cat5 cable and I have had not problems in 24 hours. The "easy setup" requires installation of the software first. I was too lazy to get my laptop (disk drive) from upstairs and decided to try a manual setup using my netbook. It was quick and easy. Besides the 6 devices I listed above I have a netbook, two smart phones, and a laptop that I have connected successfully to the router wirelessly. So far, so good. I will only update this review if I run into trouble. I hope this helps those that are hesitant about getting this device.(04/03/12) It has been 1 month, no major trouble, not sure why this device keeps getting such bad reviews. I live in a double and my mother lives next door and I could not get a signal before I switched from my not so old, not so cheap Belkin. I never bought it to boost the signal but I did a signal boost. I am happy, it all works fine. I did experience lost signal a couple of times on one of my android phones, but it was resolved by turning the wireless off and then back ON on the phone. Here is a suggestion for those still having trouble with theirs... if you live in an appartment building or an area where many signals overlap, your wireless signal may get "jammed" this can be solved by changing the channel on the router admin page. I had to do this with my Belkin wireless router and yes... it does make a difference. Hope that helps.

Even though I've built numerous computers, I never had any Wifi device and no Wifi experience, so when I decided to add Wifi to my house so my wife could use the Ipad 3 she just received by the school where she works, I had to create something she could use, but I didn't want to spend much time in the installation or operational requirements. I have a network at my house using RJ45 cabling through a router. I wanted something easy for this quick setup. I bought one of these from Amazon and within a few minutes of unboxing it, had it running. It is that simple. However, I didn't want any passerbys to access the Wifi in my house so I did have to hook it directly to one of my computers in order to install a passkey that anyone would have to know in order to access my home Wifi network. The instructions were a little confusing, initially, because I assumed too many things as I rushed through them. But, if I did everything as written, it would have taken me only a few minutes to install the passkey. I imagine that if you travel much with this miniscule Wifi from hotel to hotel, it would be a great asset as it is super small... smaller than an Iphone, lightweight and easy to use. Just select one of three settings on the back, plug it in, and wait to acquire the signal. Fantastic item.

Would have given it all stars, but instructions were not accurate and had to call dlink to get it installed. Works awesome now. Combined with dlink dir 836l. Whole house is coverd now.

We worked for hours trying to make this item work correctly. It said it was easy! Yeah right. We consulted the dlink webpage and got nowhere so we called customer support. Don't know about you but when they said it would be 40 minutes before we could speak to someone I said "no way." So I'll find something else that will extend our wireless coverage and they can have this thing back. don't bother...unless perhaps you are an electronics guru and love the challenge!!

We have used this for vacation a couple of times, and it seems to be easy to set up. We're able to use our tablets in the hotels that have wired internet instead of wireless.

It is a very user friendly interface the only issue I have with it is it seems to drop the wireless connection randomly and you have to reboot it then it works fine again.

Great buy for the buck. Able to remove a lot of wireless devices for the much faster LAN, since it has 4 more ports than my previous setup. Wireless range is good for the items I couldn't hard wire, and setup was a walk in the park. Shareport is great too. Easy way to add an NAS without many hoops to jump through.

A couple of months ago I purchased the DIR-825 because on average it received better buyer reviews than the competing dual-band N-compatible routers. At this point, I'm really struggling to understand how this is possible, because the DIR-825 fails in so many areas. I've designed wireless home networking products for almost the past 10 years, and while I'd hope that my experience and familiarity with top brands should equip me to make good purchasing decisions, in my confidence I apparently overlooked some fundamental requirements. In the DIR-825 I got a router that had what I was looking for (configurable QoS, dual-band 802.11n support), but also had a lot of other "features:"- Randomly disconnects clients every hour or so. This happened more in 5GHz than 2.4GHz, but it definitely happened in both spectrums, and did so often. The router's logs did not indicate any reasons for clients being removed. My theory is that there were frequent signal strength hiccups that caused clients to think the router had vanished. They always reconnected about 10 seconds later, but that's long enough to disconnect you from most online games.- Renders Vonage VOIP calls completely inaudible, even when the wireless network is quiet. The Vonage router is the only wired networking device in our house. We had it plugged into the DIR-825 so we could take advantage of the router's advanced QoS capabilities, but it was an absolute nightmare. We never got VOIP to work right so long as it was 'behind' the DIR-825, regardless of QoS settings and various other tweaks mentioned in the D-Link knowledge base and forums. We ended up having to put the Vonage device in front of the router (which fixed Vonage but had side effects on the rest of the network).- Auto-channel Select Feature DOES NOT WORK. The auto-channel select feature, which is enabled by default, is supposed to automatically choose the least congested WiFi channel in your band. I have access to some very expensive sniffing and spectrum analysis systems that tell me that the absolute best 2.4GHz channel in my house is number 4, and the absolute worst is number 1, which literally has 10 different SSIDs beaconing on it as I write this. The DIR-825 ALWAYS selected channel 1 (and it wasn't just a matter of what it reported in the admin UI; sniffers reported it in Channel 1.) Not only does this feature appear to do the opposite of what it advertises, it's also known for randomly disconnecting clients. Unfortunately, disabling it did not fix our problem with that.- Doesn't work with BitTorrent. I know all about port forwarding, TCP, UDP, UPnP, I followed forums, FAQs, and step-by-steps, but I never got BitTorrent to accept incoming connections properly. (And note that I hardly ever have BT running, anyway; it has nothing to do with the other issues noted here).- Crummy wireless range in both bands. First off, a little bit of info about the 5GHz band: 5GHz is never going to have the same range as the 2.4GHz range at the same transmit power; this is a matter of physics- higher frequencies = shorter wavelength = shorter distances/more susceptible to walls. There's another problem though- at least in the USA, you are only allowed to transmit on 5GHz at a fraction of the maximum power allowed on 2.4GHz, so really 5GHz is hit with kind of a double-whammy of suck. Note that there are a few 5GHz channels that are allowed to be transmitted at a higher power than the rest, but that doesn't mean that 5GHz device manufacturers actually do that- it only means they can. With that in mind, I can say that the DIR-825 has worse range in not only 5GHz but 2.4GHz as well than the dual-band Linksys WRT610 (which surprises me because of the Linksys's funky design), and also worse than any of the 2.4GHz-only routers we had before that.- Is on its way to losing WiFi Alliance compliance. There's a WFA-certified logo on the box of the DIR-825, but if you've been following wireless forums you will learn that D-Link has been experimenting with removing 802.11b support from their routers, including the DIR-825, in their downloadable firmware updates. Now, I personally stopped using 11.b years ago, and you can get better 2.4GHz performance by going G-only, but WFA logo compliance REQUIRES that you support 802.11b. D-Link has not explained why they're trying to do this, but I suspect that their hardware has either become overloaded or their code so messy that they can't adequately support new requirements without dropping 802.11b support- and that should scare you.After a full MONTH of trying to get the DIR-825 to work properly, I realized it wasn't me, and it wasn't my setup- it was just that this router sucks worse than any other router I've ever used. I promise you there's not a single setting I didn't investigate or tinker with in my quest to get reliable WiFi, but honestly, even if there were some magic combination of router settings that would make things work, the thing should have been configured to work pr

Length:: 1:22 MinsHere is my D-Link DIR-632 wireless 8 port router 2 months out of warranty. One month out, the wifi started dropping out every few minutes. Two weeks later, wired connections were slow and sporadic. Two weeks after that, this happens. Enjoy the video. Obviously, I'm done with D-Link products, forever.

I have a Linksys E4200 (v1) Cisco-Linksys E4200 Dual-Band Wireless-N Router and was originally using the DLink DAP-1522 bridge D-Link DAP-1522 Extreme 4-Port Gigabit Dual-Band Wireless-N Bridge/Access Point with it.While the 1522 worked fine it was limited to 150mbps. The 1522 also had an annoying flashing red LED to indicate that it was in bridge mode and not AP mode. (Great for the living room!)The 1525 looks MUCH nicer, which is good because it's taller and wider than the 1522 so it'll be more difficult to hide in the back of the AV cabinet. It has Gigabit ethernet connections which the Playstation 3 has so I connect the PS3 through the bridge rather than use the built-in Wifi. Transfer rates of video and pictures were MUCH faster with this bridge compared to the 1525 and much more inline with what I expected from a wireless N network.Cons:The webpage/manual setup is awful, the information is buried and there are very few useable settings you can adjust. However there is a pairing feature (which I didn't use) that may make things more straightforward.NOTE - If you're using this same setup with an XBox360 and get a restricted NAT or Moderate NAT setting from XBoxLive, you do NOT have to manually open the ports on the E4200 - Go to the E4200's firewall settings and disable multicast blocking. XBoxlive will work fine after that!

You get what you pay for and I wasted $57 on this router. Its wireless signal is weak and unstable. The router itself is slow. Worst of all, the thing just hangs randomly and without warning -- sometimes wireless stops working, sometimes the entire router just stops working. In either case, it requires power-cycling to get it going again. This happens every week or so. I now have the ASUS Dark Knight wireless router and the difference is dramatic! Too bad for D-Link because I was loyal to them for many years but they have lost their way.

I'm not sure why a lot of the other reviews on here are so negative. I bought this router as an impulse purchase, and I love it! Setup was a breeze, and it's been working all day just fine. No dropped connections and no unexpected glitches. I'm guessing that whatever issues were affecting these routers 3 and 4 years ago have been fixed. (I see that most of the negative reviews on here are from '08 and '09.) I would recommend this to anyone who's looking for a solid router that can handle multiple devices on a home network. I tested this thing by streaming a movie on my PS3 via Amazon Primes while downloading some music from iTunes on my PC and streaming a movie on my iPad via Netflix. There was no hiccups, no pauses, the movies played perfectly in HD, and the album I downloaded on iTunes was done in less than five minutes. Compared to some of the same kind of routers made by Netgear or Cysco, this one offers the biggest bang for the cheapest buck! I love it! (And no, D-Link did not pay me to write this positive review.)