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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-655 => Topic started by: Magnetron1 on September 26, 2008, 12:15:47 PM
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I was surfing D-Link's FTP website and noticed the SharePort software in the 655 folder. Downloaded and installed it on my HP laptop and then connected my four year old Sanyo SCP-8100 cellphone to the USB port on the 655 router. After a minimum amount of setup steps, I was able to successfully connect to Sprint's High Speed Network. So far it works great! As a matter of fact I'm writing this post through this connection. I was completely floored when my dialer software was able to find the cellphone even though it's located on the far side of the router! Must be a lot of software trickery going on inside the SharePort Utility. One thing I noticed is that when the cellphone is dialed into the Internet, the router uses this connection exclusively even though my wired DSL connection is much faster. It would be nice if the router had some parameters in the firmware to allow changing this behavior and perhaps allow packet load leveling using both paths to the Internet Oh well -- -- maybe it will show up in the 2.70 firmware release.
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LOL sorry. You will most likely never EVER see load balancing or connection redundacy in non-modified consumer grade routers I would be very suprised if this did in fact happen.
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I just downloaded the shareport utility as well. After reading the manual, it would seem that under system requirements, that the utility doesn't support Vista x64. Is this the care, and if so, are there plans to make it compatible?
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LOL sorry. You will most likely never EVER see load balancing or connection redundacy in non-modified consumer grade routers I would be very suprised if this did in fact happen.
actually, a very popular brand here called edi**x in the country, has a load balancing router (it's non wireless...but it can do load balance with 2 WANs) at ~120 euros, it's a really competitive price
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I just downloaded the shareport utility as well. After reading the manual, it would seem that under system requirements, that the utility doesn't support Vista x64. Is this the care, and if so, are there plans to make it compatible?
It works on Vista x64 here!
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Thanks for the info, I'm glad to hear it works on Vista x64. I wish I could get an official confirmation from D-link on this. I suppose I could just try to install it and see for myself - I just like to know for sure :) It's confusing to read system requirements that state Vista (32bit), and not know if they mean that as just a "minimum" requirement.
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I just installed it on my Vista x64 machine, and it does indeed work. I haven't had time to experiment much with it, but I certainly recognised when I plugged a USB thumb drive into the DIR-655.
Does this mean I can actually connect a printer to it and remotely print to it from my network, even if my main machine is turned off (providing, of course, that the other machines have the shareport utility installed on them)?
Another question for the experts: is it in any way harmful to a thumb drive to keep it plugged into a USB port? Even when powering up/down?
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I have never left a thumb drive attached when powering down, but all my other USB stuff stays attached so I guess it would be OK
If a printer is connected to the router and you have the shareport utility running you should have no issues connecting from any machine whether your main one is on or not. The only thing you have to remember to do is if one machine is using the printer it has to release it from the utility before another one can use it.