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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
5.0 stars
"Excellent upgrade; stable router with many options"
Pros: Wow, this router is really nice compared to my half decade old wired only Linksys router (althouogh it worked well). Really good price for such a high quality, many featured router.
Cons: I bought it within 1 week of the first shipment. Dlink should have waited a little bit longer to include the shareport driver and docs to support it, since they advertised this ability. I'm sure the newer shipments will include it.
Summary: I'm really happy with this router. It runs fairly cool (I still put some spacers under it for good air flow though). The router appears to be very stable and I have not gotten any drops. I evne have the antennas pointing horizontally back to have the router looks more streamline. Several indication lights in the front that are useful.
For the low cost of a newly shipped router of $139, it's a good deal. And the price is dopping. This will be the new dir 655 with similar pricing under $100 soon most likely.
The browser menu works very well and is easy to navigate. This proved useful since Comcast messed me up and switched my static ip to a dynamic ip within a week after I registered my new sb 5101 cable modem. (Apparently for 5 years they mistakingly let me use a static ip -- oh well). I can't complain since I have received speeds over 16 Mbps into the router.
I tested the 5ghz connection with my work laptop and it works beautifully. I even walked about 70 yars from my house and it was still pretty happy.
I really like the guest nets that can be created so one can access the net without having access to my local home pc's. Dlink gives pretty good info of how to protect your wireless net from intruders.
The shareport ability is nice although I don't plan on using it right now. As mentioned above, you currently have to go to the site to download the firmware and get the docs. I'm sure this will change with their next lot.
bottom line: very stable, cool running router that works great. I am using a wired connection to my ps3 playstation (with Playon software on my pc) to do high quality streaming downloads from Netflix. I haven't tested the wireless streaming but am sure it would work since my streaming was working ok when I just had my old wired 10/100 mbps router.
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This review is a year old and does not reflect the poor performance of the updated 1.12NA firmware
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