D-Link DIR-655 Extreme-N Gigabit Wireless Router
by D-Link Systems, Inc.
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Customer Review: FAAAAAST!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow! I used a Linksys RT31P2 for the last year or so. It was a piece of junk!! Would slow down, get constipated, and finally died. Since we are Mac family (I have been an IT consultant too long to stay PC) I used the Airport Extreme (802.11g) for a while also. It was reliable.
BUT WHEN I PLUGGED IN THIS D-LINK ROUTER, I realized that all my previous routers had been huge bottlenecks. Over the Airport, my upload speed on Comcast cable modem increased from 4Mbps to 20Mbps. Wow. Didn't even realize Comcast had opened up that much bandwidth. [...]
So in my house we have a wired Mac, wireless Mac, wireless TiVo, Vonage adapter, Airport printserver, Airport iTunes, and they all work fine. I am currently using 802.11g and WPA2 since I don't own any 802.11n stuff yet. Signal strength for 802.11g has doubled on the fringe areas from 30% on my Tivo adapter to 60%.
I bought the D-Link vonage ATA adapter and plugged into one of the ports. I was concerned my phone calls would get choppy since the ATA is behind the router. HOWEVER, THE D-LINK ROUTER HAS SOME VERY GOOD QoS FEATURES AND USING THE AUTOMATIC SETTINGS, THE VONAGE CALLS ARE NOT CHOPPY AND EVERYTHING WORKS FINE.
Build Quality: This router is built a lot more solid than many other routers I have seen, especially the Linksys P.O.S. I just placed in the trash can (best place for it really).
Summary: Gigabit switch is awesome. Router can do SPI and even some deep packet inspection such as H.323 (Netmeeting) compatibility and QOS stuff while maintaining lots of speed. It is VoIP aware and supports SIP and QOS is tuned for VOIP. It works great in a Mac environment and I'm sure would in a PC environemtn also. VERY extensive router setup settings for the home user including INCOMING filters, flexible DHCP server with ability to reserve IP addresses for specific MAC addresses (nice). Will email you the log files, and automatically checks D-Link's website for firmware updates. Overall an awesome router for the money.
Customer Review: Glad I bought it
Summary: 5 Stars
My first wireless router was a starter D-Link which was inexpensive. Didn't know the difference. However, this lasted over 6 years. I found out they usually have a life expectancy of 2 yrs. So I really got my money's worth. Don't ask me why I decided to purchase a Linksys to replace it. Probably because so many say it is the best. Well I bought one, and spent 24 hours trying to set it up with nothing but headaches. Support finally decided it was defective and told me to take it back and exchange it which I did. However, before I opened it, I decided to check out customer reviews on others. I found that others had same problems as I with Linksys (of course many had no trouble) but it seemed to follow a pattern. This D-Link had great reviews. It was a little bit more costly than the Linksys, but I decided to try it. Well, needless to say, I was thrilled that it installed without any problem. I was up and running within 15 minutes (I always read the instructions first). Never had to call support once. A short time later I decided to set up the Wii to the wireless. Well I wrote down the password wrong, so had to call customer service. I got a technician so quick, I was surprised. Within 5 minutes they showed me how to change it and I could give it the one I wanted to use. I have never written a review before, but decided to do this one so I may save someone else some problems in deciding what to use. I know there are many out there who think other wireless routers are better and maybe for their situation they are. But this one is for me. I have 3 laptops, and one Wii set up and will add PlayStation later. The reception is great and I use some of my laptops in other rooms. It works well with both Vista and XP. This one was more than I really wanted to pay (thankfully Amazon had the best price)and probably a little more than I had to spend. But the time I have saved in installation and ease of use have offset the cost. My time is worth a lot! Hope this helps you with your decision.Customer Review: BEST HIGH-TECH WI-FI ROUTER FOR YOUR MONEY
Summary: 5 Stars
OK Folks,
first-off, let me say that I have never owned a wi-fi router before. And recently I purchased my wifey-poo a top-o-dee-line laptop - so a wi-fi router was gonna be added to our computer gadgets.
Being the computer geek that I am, I went to a few different "techie places" to see what was the hottest think out on the market in regards to wi-fi routers. And "Lo and Behold...this one kept on popping up.
During this searching process, I learned that the "N" series of wi-fi routers are the newest craze in technology. (Beating out the "B" and "G" series routers in power/distance, download speeds, and technology).
Anyhoo, to make a long story short, we purchased the router and could not be happier. I have it set-up in my office, which is where the main PC is located. The office also happens to be situated right in between the bedrooms and the living-room and kitchen areas.
It has perfect reception everywhere in our house. Everywhere we go, the signal strength is "maxed out".
Now let me be quite frank here. I also have a high end Cisco firewall router. And because of that, and never having owned a wi-fi router before...the installation kinda through me for a loop. I think it took me a little longer than normal to hook it up, and it's working fine. But when I have a little free time, I will need to recheck everything to make sure it is set-up correctly - with all the passwords and security defenses in place.
Like I said before...so far I am very happy with it.
Pricewise, Amazon.com has it the cheapest. And Amazon.com is also a reputable seller, so I'd go with them if you want to mail order it at a great price. Ourselves...we found it on sale at Circuit City $99.00. It was a few dollars more, but we had it in our hands immediately.
Bottom line, I would recommend this router. In it's specs, it beats every other router out in the market for speed of download, power, and distance.
Customer Review: D-Link DIR-655 Extreme N Gigabit Wireless Router
Summary: 5 Stars
D-Link DIR-655 Extreme N Gigabit Wireless Router (Electronics)
THIS D-LINK DR-665 ROUTER IS A EXCELLENT PRODUCT. IT WORKED RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX WITH A TOSHIBA SATELLITE A665D S6096 NOTEBOOK AND MY SHELF BUILT HOME TRADING COMPUTER I PURCHASED AT THE SAME TIME ABOUT ONE MONTH AGO,LIVE IN A 2400 SQ FT HOUSE AND THE LAPTOP WORKED EVERY WARE EVEN OUTSIDE AT FULL SPEED SAME AS MY DESKTOPS.THIS ROUTER IS ON 24/7 FOR 30 DAYS SINCE I`AM A DAY TRADER IT HAS TO WORK FAST AND BE RELIABLE. CONNECTED MY SELF BUILT DESKTOP TRADING COMPUTER WIN 7 ULTIMATE 64 ,HOME DESKTOP WIN XP32 AND THE NOTEBOOK WIN 7 ALL AT THE SAME TIME AND WHILE MY WIFE IS USING THE LAPTOP AND I`AM DAY TRADING ALL DAY FOR THE LAST 30 DAYS AND NEVER HAD ONE DROP OUT OR ANY OTHER PROBLEMS.ALL MY ORDERS WARE EXECUTED FLAWLESSLY. ALTHOUGH I HAVE A BACKUP COMPUTER SYSTEM READY TO GO I HAVE NOT HAD TO ACTIVATE IT . I TRADED ONE DAY WITH THE LAPTOP OUTSIDE ABOUT 70 FEET AWAY AND MADE $650 IN 15 MIN IT PAID FOR THE LAPTOP.EVERYTHING I COULD THROW AT THIS D-LINK AND IT STILL KEPT WORKING I WON`T BE TRADING WITH THE LAPTOP SINCE A NEED AT LEAST FOUR SCREENS BUT IN A EMERGENCY I WON`T HAVE A PROBLEM USING IT.I DID INSTALL FOUR RUBBER FEET UNDER THE ROUTER FOR BETTER AIR CIRCULATION SINCE THE STANDARD FEET ARE VERY SMALL AND THE FAN AND AIR DUCT ARE LOCATED ON THE BOTTOM OF THE UNITE. I ALSO LOADED THE SHARE PORT UTILITY ON ALL COMPUTERS AND IT WORKED FLAWLESSLY EVEN WITH A DELL LASER PRINTER AND THREE SECURITY CAMERAS.IF THERE EVER WARE ANY ISSUES WITH THIS ROUTER IN THE PAST THEY ARE ALL GONE,TRUST ME I TESTED THIS ROUTER TO THE MAX.I WILL GIVE ANOTHER REVIEW UPDATE IN SIX MONTHS WHEN ALL ELS FAILS READ THE MANUAL.THIS IS THE FIRST ****** PRODUCT THATS RIGHT 6 STARS NOT A MISPRINT.THREE DIFFERENT COMPUTERS, THREE DIFFERENT PROCESSORS, ONE SELF BUILT ONE LAPTOP AND ONE 6 YEAR OLD DESKTOP THREE DIFFERENT OPERATING SYSTEMS, THREE WIRELESS CAMERAS.AND ONE SHARED PRINTER . THANK`S AGAIN TO AMAZON FOR THERE FAST SERVICE AND EXCELLENT PRICES.
Customer Review: The best Wireless-N for the money.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a split-level house and due to the way the house is wired, the Internet Connection is in the Office in my basement. I had an Apple Airport Extreme Wireless N Base Station. I was plagued by bad reception - 3 Bars upstairs, 2 bars sometimes, and numerous dropped skype calls, and network issues. My NAS was wired directly to the router - when I was downstairs, I would get moderate performance and upstairs, when I right-clicked an ISO image to mount, the network would take for ever, at 36 Mbps and on a good day, around 74. Just wired up the DIR-655, and guess what, a consistent 130 Mbps throught the house. Amazing - 5 bars upstairs. I right click and mount ISOs and the speed is decent. I dont have to install the Apple Airport Express software anymore. I even tried using an additional Apple Airport Express unit to see if that would make things better - no go. Doesnt make a difference. Here's what I think - for an apartment under 2000 Square feet where the most you have between the router and a client PC is one wall, yeah, the Apple Products work. Non-Mac PC's still connect only at the 2.4 GHz and not the 5GHz as advertised. And there's no way on the AEBS to disable one or the other. So the router's not going to work great unless you have Apple hardware. The Dell Laptops - mine and my wife's, just love the D-Link. It has been 2 days, and I think that my days of bad wireless performance are behind me. Remember, as frequency increases, range decreases. The D-Link DIR-655 operates at 2.4 GHz. Yeah not great frequency, but great range and it works great for me. GREAT. Nothing less. The greatest thing here is that the AEBS gave me very inconsistent performance - the speed fluctuated constantly, for no reason. I would be sitting there typing just as I am right now and it would go to single digit Mbps speeds. With the DIR-655, I have 5 bars and 130Mbps - consistent. Too cold to go out onto the deck yet, but I will this summer, and I have a feeling this thing is going to rock.