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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-655 => Topic started by: vulkanbros on June 04, 2009, 01:09:58 PM
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ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/dir655/Firmware/
Anyone tried? Dated the 4th of june
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IR-655 Firmware Release Notes
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Firmware: 1.32 (Beta 01)
1. Fix potential security leak with CAPTCHA.
2. Fix USB LED issue aboutShareport.
3. Update chklst.txt
4. Fix SharePort issue
Just what we always wanted! ::)
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Well...guess i´ll try it tonight.....according to your release notes it is
the thing we always wanted ::)
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It resets the router to factory defaults.
But it is running so far.
Let's see after some hours ;D
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Judging the changelog it looks like it's just what i needed :)
Working fine so far. I just hope it lasts.
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Haha.. you guys do amaze me.. I was still testing this firmware and what do you know?? you guys already have it.. sneaky guys! I guess I'll hold off from submitting it to our ftp from now on :P But yeah.. you guys know the drill It's beta and will come with a disclaimer here on the forums.
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=5841.0
ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/dir655/Firmware/dir655_firmware_132NA_beta01.zip
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Thanks.
You fixed the Shareport (3) - Ubicom (4) port communication problem. ;D
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;) :-X
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This fixed my problem of not being able to change my wireless settings
I was running without wireless security, I felt so naked
thanks, this was a huge help
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Haha.. you guys do amaze me.. I was still testing this firmware and what do you know?? you guys already have it.. sneaky guys! I guess I'll hold off from submitting it to our ftp from now on :P But yeah.. you guys know the drill It's beta and will come with a disclaimer here on the forums.
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=5841.0
ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/dir655/Firmware/dir655_firmware_132NA_beta01.zip
An you counter-act our sneakiness by applying a hidden attribute to the file. :P
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works great for me! :) thanks for fixing the problem! I can print now!! :) YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Installed at 10:45 PM CST. Running drive image program to powered USB drive. It will take around 5 hours to complete. I will post the results. After loading Shareport, the drive was found instantly. Also, when I Explore my computer it used to take a while to find the shared drive, around 5 to 6 seconds. Not this time. It was up in about a second and a half. Thank you D-Link engineers for listening and responding in such a timely manner. Even if it doesn't work, I know that you guys are "Humpin to please" and that means a great deal to me.
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What about unstable wifi issues that many people have? You have fixed an LED issue, but most of us dont even look at LED's.
Im just being curious.
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MAC FOLKS MIGHT WANT TO HOLD OFF IF YOU DON"T HAVE A WINDOWS MACHINE TO RECOVER WITH
I'm on an Apple MacBook Pro. I've never had issues with the firmware upgrade process by itself--beta or otherwise--until now.
I backed up my network settings like I always do so I can re-import them after the firmware upgrade pretty much zeros them out.
But then things got a little scary.
The firmware upgrade process went fine as expected--but when I tried to re-import the saved settings, I kept getting re-routed back to the log-in screen--and anytime after re-logging in that I tried to navigate to the ''Tools'' page I got returned to the log-in over and over.
I was stuck. I tried several more times, seeing the ''storm clouds'' of hours of recovery time ahead of me gathering on the horizon. I was potentially bricked. I couldn't even back-install to the 1.31 firmware because that's on the ''Tools'' page too!
Needless to say, things got anxious.
As a last resort before phoning technical support on how to reset the router, I decided to try the Dell/Windows XP machine with MSIE. Well, while I didn't get constantly locked out like I did on the Mac, I did get some sort of error about the settings being un-importable. So, I re-did my settings from scratch on the Windows XP machine via MSIE.
So far, so good...
However--Somebody in the lab may want to experiment with upgrading the firmware using a Mac with either Safari or Firefox. While I'm willing to admit that ''it's just me'' it just might be the platform/web browser at issue--and some poor Mac user without a ''windows to break in case of emergency'' may be totally bricked.
Anyway, too late to play around with the SharePort to see if it maybe works but there's always tomorrow.
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I was hoping this would fix the problem I was having with UPnP port forwarding and Windows Home Server. It did not. WHS will configure the proper port forwarding and claim success. Router will forget settings within 5 minutes and website will no longer be accessible from the internet. Back to manual port forwarding...
UPnP and WHS seemed to work fine prior to version 1.31. Now I am stuck.
I have done a complete reset and have not used any configuration files to setup the router. I have also tried unchecking UPnP, rebooting the router, and re-checking UPnP, rebooting the router. Like I said the router allows the UPnP forwarding to take place but then quickly forgets the settings.
Any suggestions from D-Link?
I am using a three or four month old DIR-655 A4 with 1.32NA beta.
Thanks,
CWagz
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MAC FOLKS MIGHT WANT TO HOLD OFF IF YOU DON"T HAVE A WINDOWS MACHINE TO RECOVER WITH
I'm on an Apple MacBook Pro. I've never had issues with the firmware upgrade process by itself--beta or otherwise--until now. ...
Thank you for posting this information.
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it seems that the info still shows as 1.31 but the 1.31 *.gws cannot be applied directly
(http://xs140.xs.to/xs140/09235/2009-06-05_181102568.png) (http://xs.to)
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Loading the new firmware has not resolved my problem with a dropped connection. The first time I ran my drive imaging software it stayed active for 22 minutes. The second try came in at 27 minutes. I'm going to see if I drop the connection if I don't run the imaging program.
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Runs great so far....it seems like the USB connection thing is working.... :)
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Firmware 1.32NA Beta1 is running very good on my router.
Saved my settings before I upgraded. Upload of old settings from 1.31 to 1.32 was no problem.
Web interface seems to be faster.
The problem I had with Access Control in Firmware 1.31 are gone with 1.32. :-)
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=5178.0
Until now I'm happy with this new firmware. :-)
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I was hoping this would fix the problem I was having with UPnP port forwarding and Windows Home Server. It did not. WHS will configure the proper port forwarding and claim success. Router will forget settings within 5 minutes and website will no longer be accessible from the internet. Back to manual port forwarding...
UPnP and WHS seemed to work fine prior to version 1.31. Now I am stuck.
I have done a complete reset and have not used any configuration files to setup the router. I have also tried unchecking UPnP, rebooting the router, and re-checking UPnP, rebooting the router. Like I said the router allows the UPnP forwarding to take place but then quickly forgets the settings.
Any suggestions from D-Link?
I am using a three or four month old DIR-655 A4 with 1.32NA beta.
Thanks,
CWagz
You should try UPnP and port forwarding with and without securespot and see how it works.
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I was hoping this would fix the problem I was having with UPnP port forwarding and Windows Home Server. It did not. WHS will configure the proper port forwarding and claim success. Router will forget settings within 5 minutes and website will no longer be accessible from the internet. Back to manual port forwarding
Yeah, me too. I was excited to try it. I also still have the port forwarding issue and have tried 2 Tech support email replies to fix it without resolve. The router seems to operate smoother though with the new firmware. Please help us WHS users.
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Have you consulted a Microsoft tech already? it's also possible that WHS is cutting off the port...
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I believe I've found that my problem does not lie with Shareport but rather with USB's ability to write large amounts of data. I was receiving delayed write errors each time my image backup would fail and this in turn would cause the Shareport drive connection to fail. I found this passage (below) on a web site and there are suggestions for a solution. For anyone who has a USB drive hanging off of your DIR-655 and you receive a delayed write error, the fault is not with Shareport. It may also be a product of Paragon Software's Hot Processing technology. I currently am running a demo copy of Acronis imaging software. I don't know what technology they use to be able to backup a locked partition but I will investigate further. I'll find out when I get home if Acronis was successful. If it is, I'm going to try Paragon again only this time I will disable Hot Processing and use Microsofts Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) instead. If that does not work, then I will pursue options for correcting the delayed write error.
"The problem itself seems to be from a memory cache on the USB adapter which drives my disk. It seems that when accessing big files, the cache gets corrupted and the drive becomes inaccessible. To rectify that, a filter driver should be installed, which will limit the packets’ size sent to the USB adapter bus."
-and it continues
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Happy to inform that things went back to 1.21 normal state:
RTSP streaming is back (no more long delays)
WiFi drops less packets
Huge latency is no more
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MAC FOLKS MIGHT WANT TO HOLD OFF IF YOU DON"T HAVE A WINDOWS MACHINE TO RECOVER WITH
I'm on an Apple MacBook Pro. I've never had issues with the firmware upgrade process by itself--beta or otherwise--until now.
I backed up my network settings like I always do so I can re-import them after the firmware upgrade pretty much zeros them out.
But then things got a little scary.
The firmware upgrade process went fine as expected--but when I tried to re-import the saved settings, I kept getting re-routed back to the log-in screen--and anytime after re-logging in that I tried to navigate to the ''Tools'' page I got returned to the log-in over and over.
I was stuck. I tried several more times, seeing the ''storm clouds'' of hours of recovery time ahead of me gathering on the horizon. I was potentially bricked. I couldn't even back-install to the 1.31 firmware because that's on the ''Tools'' page too!
Needless to say, things got anxious.
As a last resort before phoning technical support on how to reset the router, I decided to try the Dell/Windows XP machine with MSIE. Well, while I didn't get constantly locked out like I did on the Mac, I did get some sort of error about the settings being un-importable. So, I re-did my settings from scratch on the Windows XP machine via MSIE.
So far, so good...
However--Somebody in the lab may want to experiment with upgrading the firmware using a Mac with either Safari or Firefox. While I'm willing to admit that ''it's just me'' it just might be the platform/web browser at issue--and some poor Mac user without a ''windows to break in case of emergency'' may be totally bricked.
Anyway, too late to play around with the SharePort to see if it maybe works but there's always tomorrow.
Well considering we TELL you not to upgrade firmware or even configure the router with anything other then IE, this behavior doesn't surprise me. Firefox should work, but the fact that it's installed on a Mac still is a cause for concern.
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I was hoping this would fix the problem I was having with UPnP port forwarding and Windows Home Server. It did not. WHS will configure the proper port forwarding and claim success. Router will forget settings within 5 minutes and website will no longer be accessible from the internet. Back to manual port forwarding...
UPnP and WHS seemed to work fine prior to version 1.31. Now I am stuck.
I have done a complete reset and have not used any configuration files to setup the router. I have also tried unchecking UPnP, rebooting the router, and re-checking UPnP, rebooting the router. Like I said the router allows the UPnP forwarding to take place but then quickly forgets the settings.
Any suggestions from D-Link?
I am using a three or four month old DIR-655 A4 with 1.32NA beta.
Thanks,
CWagz
We are aware of the UPnP failure for WHS, and are working to correct it before the final release.
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We are aware of the UPnP failure for WHS, and are working to correct it before the final release.
Awesome! I have been using DIR-655s since WHS beta and they have always been the most reliable at UPnP forwarding. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
CWagz
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Does anyone remote desktop a lot? I have been having an issue with 1.31 where my remote desktop sessions to work drop like crazy. When I use another router, no drops. Guess I should just load up this beta this weekend.
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Any screen shots/packet captures/ or evidnce at all of WHS failing to work properly with 1.3X+ firmware would be a great help.
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I do tons of remote desktop and have been experiencing problems on 1.31 getting to my client sites which are all DIR-655s A1-A4 1.21s and 1.31s. I will install the 1.32b later today to see if I get a different result. Thanks for keeping the updates coming to the best consumer/SOHO router out there.
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1.32NA Beta 01 does not resolve my dual Gigabit lan issue. If the lan that is not connected to the router is disabled then the Shareport Utility will show my WD MyBook. However when both lans are active no device is found by the utility.
I use one of my LANs with a switch for my HDHomeruns (HDTV Tuners) and the other with the router. The HDHomeRuns use a timed out IP (169.)
I really don't know what the conflict is but that particular problem does not seem to be a firmware issue but rather a utility issue to me.
I haven't gotten around to see if it fixed any of the wireless problems I was having yet so i'll play with that some and report back in a few days
Below is ths specs for the system i'm having these issues with. Also the load for the router is below as well. I only am putting all of this info on here because I know that there aren't many people thathave this configuration. My house is very Intergrated with automations so it is important to have stable router to perform the required funtions
Thanks
Armyb77
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(Hardware)
BIOSTAR TForce TF570SLI (NVidia Onboard Dual Gigabit LAN)
2 GB GSkill DDR2 800 RAM
Vista 32-bit Ultimate Edition (Retail)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200
Vistaview Saber 2020 Dual Analog Tuner
Hauppauge MCE 500 Dual Analog Tuner
ATI 3850
Seagate 250GB SATA II (OS)
Seagate 750GB SATA II (internal Storage)
(Software)
Vista Media Center w/2008 TV Pack
Playon Media Server
Avast AntiVirus
TotalMedia Theatre
(Router Load)
WD MyBook 1TB Shareport (USB)
2 HP Laptops Wireless connection (1 - g, and 1 - n)
1 Dell Laptop Wireless connection (g)
Brother MFC-8640D Printer (Netgear PS101 Print Server) (LAN)
2 XBOX 360s (LAN)
1 PS3 (LAN)
2 Wii (Wireless)
1 Desktop (1-LAN to router, 1-LAN to switch with HDHomeRuns)
there is also 1 8-port GigaBit Switch that connects much of the house to the router however the system with the problem is directly connected.
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Port Forwarding is not working here on my DIR-655 A2 with FW 1.32b01.
BitTorrent: All entries are right but BT is not working. The log shows blocked incoming requests on "open" ports.
I switched back to 1.31NA... and... it's working again.
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Port Forwarding is not working here on my DIR-655 A2 with FW 1.32b01.
BitTorrent: All entries are right but BT is not working. The log shows blocked incoming requests on "open" ports.
I switched back to 1.31NA... and... it's working again.
BT is working OK ith 1.32beta !
Not every "blocked incoming..." means that the port is blocked and BT isn't working....You're jumping to conclusions here.
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BT is working OK ith 1.32beta !
Not every "blocked incoming..." means that the port is blocked and BT isn't working....You're jumping to conclusions here.
Hmmm... I tried most of the 655 FW since 1.11, all with manual configuration, but this BT "failure" happens the first time to me.
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@armyb77
Make sure that it is not Vista that is the problem
1. Open the Network and Sharing Center
2. Open "Manage Network Connections"
3. Open the "Advanced" menu -> Advanced Settings
4. If necessary change the order of connections so that your router net is the first.
(http://lizzi555.dyndns.org/PICS_ETC/networkset.png)
Sorry picture is in german but it looks the same.
If this doesnt help, try to enter the IP address of your router in the shareport tool menu
(http://lizzi555.dyndns.org/PICS_ETC/usbport2.png)
It also works if there is more than one router :)
(http://lizzi555.dyndns.org/PICS_ETC/usbport1.png)
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Well considering we TELL you not to upgrade firmware or even configure the router with anything other then IE, this behavior doesn't surprise me. Firefox should work, but the fact that it's installed on a Mac still is a cause for concern.
So the box states that you need IE on a PC to configure the router, or do you find that out after purchase?
Currently, I have no PCs available to me, so I guess I will not be flashing any time soon...
EDIT: I just checked the firmware release notes, and it makes no mention of using Internet Explorer on a PC. The firmware download page makes no mention of this either. It's possible that I missed it, so could you point me to where this is stated?
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lizzi555,
Thanks for the suggestion. It did not resolve my problem however I hooked up my old linksys WRT-54G instead of the switch for the HDHomeruns so that DHCP would be used to assign an IP address to them. Anyways long story short that was the fix. The WD MyBook shows up on the Shareport Utility no problem now.
I had already done the second suggestion you gave but not the first one so I tried it out before putting the router on the HDHomeRuns but it just wasn't working.
Thanks again for your help though. I don't know that I could really say this is a utility problem it could be the HDHomeRuns conflict with the Shareport when using an internal IP rather then one assigned from a DHCP.
thanks,
Armyb77
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Any screen shots/packet captures/ or evidnce at all of WHS failing to work properly with 1.3X+ firmware would be a great help.
If I get chance this weekend I will put WinPCap and wireshark on my WHS and trace it. Would you like it tracing with a filter on?
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I am using 1.22 right now. Can i install 1.32Beta or do I need to go sequentially with 1.3, 1.31? Is the B and G support included in 1.32? (I still have some old B devices)
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you can directly flash to 1.32 and 11b is included.
But remember: you can't go back to 1.2x firmware.
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Well considering we TELL you not to upgrade firmware or even configure the router with anything other then IE, this behavior doesn't surprise me. Firefox should work, but the fact that it's installed on a Mac still is a cause for concern.
Ummm.. the instructions on how to install firmware state this:-
Step 2: Once you´ve downloaded the firmware, open a web browser such as Internet Explorer or Netscape and enter the IP address of your router (192.168.0.1).
Let's be fair - that is NOT a statement that only IE should be used, and "such as" could be interpreted that browsers like Firefox are an option.
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Nowadays it really does not matter which mainstream browser you use. That's all things of the past.
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I would have thought so too, but Lycan stated otherwise.
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It's a good way to limit the scope of potential issues. There has been a case of someone using FF 3.5 beta, crating havoc about an issue that was solved by moving to a non-beta version...
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Absolutely understood & agreed - But in this case the parameters for which Browser was acceptable were much too vague.
And us Mac users cannot use Internet Explorer, as there is no Mac version.
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And us Mac users cannot use Internet Explorer, as there is no Mac version.
Lucky you :D
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Lucky you :D
:-\ Well, it's fabulous most of the time until this type of situation happens!
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I always use a mac when when flashing, never had a problem. Simply claiming that they only support IE on the Windows means they can turn their head if there actually is a bad flash. I am sure the rate of bad flashing on the mac is no different than that of PCs.
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Nowadays it really does not matter which mainstream browser you use. That's all things of the past.
Theory and reality rarely jive. Although the flashing of the firmware was done ''cleanly'' on a ''clutter free'' Safari rather than my add-on infested Firefox, I was afterwards stuck/locked out of the ''Tools'' menu by a repeating loop of log-in screen. After this I tried Firefox and Safari and finally decided to use the ''dark side of the force'' and use MSIE on the Windows XP Dell. This action, however, was not taken because I had read any ''warning material'' provided. It was just a ''last resort'' on my part before I threw up my hands.
My reasoning was that I knew that the D-Link atmosphere was not Mac friendly and decided to use what I assumed was the browser and platform used by the firmware developers.
I was fortunate really. I could be at Best Buy today buying a new router. However, I feel my ''journey of hell'' with this router is far from over. Eventually I will hit the threshold and there will be a D-Link DIR-655 for sale on eBay.
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Theory and reality rarely jive. Although the flashing of the firmware was done ''cleanly'' on a ''clutter free'' Safari rather than my add-on infested Firefox, I was afterwards stuck/locked out of the ''Tools'' menu by a repeating loop of log-in screen. After this I tried Firefox and Safari and finally decided to use the ''dark side of the force'' and use MSIE on the Windows XP Dell. This action, however, was not taken because I had read any ''warning material'' provided. It was just a ''last resort'' on my part before I threw up my hands.
My reasoning was that I knew that the D-Link atmosphere was not Mac friendly and decided to use what I assumed was the browser and platform used by the firmware developers.
I was fortunate really. I could be at Best Buy today buying a new router. However, I feel my ''journey of hell'' with this router is far from over. Eventually I will hit the threshold and there will be a D-Link DIR-655 for sale on eBay.
Yeah, it is frustrating. Many people think that Mac users are all so anal - we all have an iphone, airport extreme, etc, whereas in truth we are just looking for a route out of the Microsoft OS, and are totally open to any periphery items that do the job without the Apple price tag. I did NOT, for instance, enjoy paying what I did for my MacBook Pro, but I had no choice! So D-Link are one way out. I can only say do not lose faith. For now, I stick with the 1.21EU, it works great with my 20MB Cable Internet (No real difference speedwise between direct connection or wireless).
Yes, I want what sharteport is supposed to do, and if it does not deliver soon I will have to pay the premium of moving to Time Capsule, because I need access to a fixed location hard drive while away, but until then...
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I would have thought so too, but Lycan stated otherwise.
I questioned him here here (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=5838.msg34727#msg34727), but still have not received official confirmation.
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It's a good way to limit the scope of potential issues. There has been a case of someone using FF 3.5 beta, crating havoc about an issue that was solved by moving to a non-beta version...
Unfortunately, the tone in this forum is not one of "community". All too often I see posts, directed at people having problems, that are simply rude.
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Unfortunately, the tone in this forum is not one of "community". All too often I see posts, directed at people having problems, that are simply rude.
Some OP's do not really give a lot of info (none sometimes), have not read/searched through earlier posts or are not open to suggestions because they have their mind made up ('it must be the router').
And it does get pretty annoying if the answer (or problem solving suggestions )to their question has been given several times, but they just don't want to spend some time in doing sme work themselves. This is not a paid job.... ;)
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And it does get pretty annoying if the answer (or problem solving suggestions )to their question has been given several times, but they just don't want to spend some time in doing sme work themselves. This is not a paid job.... ;)
So just ignore them or are you forced to answer each post ?
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Some OP's do not really give a lot of info (none sometimes), have not read/searched through earlier posts or are not open to suggestions because they have their mind made up ('it must be the router').
Have you ever considered that maybe the person seeking help doesn't know what info to give? Regarding the statement that "they have their mind made up ('it must be the router')", I see the exact opposite reaction from some of the people that answer their questions - "It can't be possible that the router is at fault."
And it does get pretty annoying if the answer (or problem solving suggestions )to their question has been given several times, but they just don't want to spend some time in doing sme work themselves. This is not a paid job.... ;)
Don't respond to questions that annoy you, but if you do, don't be condescending.
This is a paid job for D-Link employees. If it's not directly part of their job description, it still benefits them as they are creating part of the process that will help create happy D-Link customers. If that's not a job incentive, then I don't know what is.
EDIT: I am not singling you out, so please don't think that this is a personal attack.
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Are you able to restore the router settings if you back them prior to fashing the firmware to 1.32?
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Yes, it was possible but I reset the router again and made the settings manually.
It is always better to use a settings file only with the version it was saved from.
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This is a paid job for D-Link employees. If it's not directly part of their job description, it still benefits them as they are creating part of the process that will help create happy D-Link customers. If that's not a job incentive, then I don't know what is.
That intention of the board is that user help each other, Dlink staff will pick up on stuff but moderately. Some of the OP's , I agree, do not know what info to give. But you won't see a condescending attitude towards them, they are kindly asked to give specified info.
If you want to reapeat your story a thousand times over and over again, that's fine with me. But my perosnal opinion is that one can easily search the board for the issue they face instead of asking the same questions over and over again. Or is that too much to ask? Otherwise what's the purpose of the threads being saved.
So I'm quite surprised that this is explained as a justification for being rude or condescending... I personnaly think that being 'lazy' (not exploring the board first) is very rude towards the more IT literate users on the board. And igf you want to examples of people being prejudiced....just have a look around the Shareport issues. You'll fnd plenty if those.
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Yes, it was possible but I reset the router again and made the settings manually.
It is always better to use a settings file only with the version it was saved from.
Thank you, good info to go by, will do this when I upgrade.
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I now have a log entry for when I temporarily lost connection during which Shareport said that my drive did not disconnect properly. I don't think this is related to Shareport, its just that this kind of disconnect wreaks havoc on any attempt to copy a large file to my USB drive. Can anyone tell me what just happened when I see this?:
UPnP renew entry 255.255.255.255 <-> 173.74.174.35:15827 <-> 192.168.0.190:4907 UDP timeout:0 'svchost (192.168.0.190:4907) 15827 UDP'
173.74.174.35 is my WAN address and 192.168.0.190 is my LAN address. I have UPnP discovery turned on. OK, I understand that the Router renewed my entry, I just want to understand why. Is it normal?
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Just did the upgrade. An EBKAC gave me a problem with the wireless which was quickly resolved. So far, so good.
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I must be the only person on here that has always been able to restore a saved configuration file after upgrading firmware, and have it work every time. I change quite a few settings too. However I don't use SharePort, CAPTCHA (which I freaking hate) and who knows what else others here do. Probably depends on what features you enable, or likely what combinations of features you use.
And I use Firefox every time. I think the browser-specific comments are way overplayed.
Of course all it takes is getting burned once to completely change your opinion on that ;D
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Got burned once with a restored config, but tried again anyhow. And it worked perfectly.
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Since first updating my firmware to 1.31 and now 1.32 Beta and installing Shareport, for weeks my energy has been spent trying to successfully create a drive image onto a USB drive attached to the USB shareport. Each attempt was met with eventual failure in the way of Delayed Write Errors. At first I thought it was a fault of either my drivers, my paging memory, USB cabling, etc. I never tried to simply hang the drive off of my Laptop and see what happened until today. I incorrectly assumed that I would receive the same Delayed Write Error since the issue is related to the transference of large chunks of data over USB ports. I could not have been more wrong. I imaged 33GB of data in 53 minutes and it worked so flawlessly that it made my head spin. I will not stop trying to image to the drive using Shareport so long as D-Link continues to provide updates to either the firmware, or software, or both. I have copied a 20MB file to the Shareport drive without a problem but any attempt to continuously copy data, as in my imaging program, will ultimately crash the drive and bring my computer to it's knees.
Edit: Not sure what has changed since taking the drive off the router, creating a backup, and reattaching it to the router but now Shareport says that the connection to my mass storage device has failed. This is a popup window and one that I have never seen. Then it cycles to another message (onscreen) with a red x, and then to one with a yellow triangle that says no USB devices were found. The router logs say otherwise since it states that the silex driver has found the drive. I think I'm officially hosed. If I reconnect the drive to my computer everything looks fine. I did change the drive from a primary partition to a logical partition and when it would not connect, I changed it back to a primary partition yet this did not work.
06/08
Edit: Performing a Computer reboot fixed the aforementioned problem. I can see and access my drive now but after leaving Shareport on all night and checking it this morning it had detached and would not reconnect.
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I was hoping this would fix the problem I was having with UPnP port forwarding and Windows Home Server. It did not. WHS will configure the proper port forwarding and claim success. Router will forget settings within 5 minutes and website will no longer be accessible from the internet. Back to manual port forwarding...
UPnP and WHS seemed to work fine prior to version 1.31. Now I am stuck.
I have done a complete reset and have not used any configuration files to setup the router. I have also tried unchecking UPnP, rebooting the router, and re-checking UPnP, rebooting the router. Like I said the router allows the UPnP forwarding to take place but then quickly forgets the settings.
Any suggestions from D-Link?
I am using a three or four month old DIR-655 A4 with 1.32NA beta.
Thanks,
CWagz
Just curious if your getting blocked ports in your log for WHS and UPnP?
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Can 1.32 beta 01 downgrade to ex.1.21 ?
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nope
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Just curious if your getting blocked ports in your log for WHS and UPnP?
Yes - after using UPnP and WHS forwarding the ports it will work for a few minutes. Then requests will show up in the log as being blocked. For example port 443 will be blocked instead of directed to my server's IP address.
Only way to make it work is to manually forward the ports.
CWagz
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If anyone is interested (Engineers that is) I have done a packet trace of the WHS UPnP port forwarding failure using WinPCap and Wireshark. Not sure where or who to send it too. I think it was Lycan who was asking for this. It's about 6MB in total.
Thanks
TLE
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TLE, would that same procedure be able to capture what is happening when writing to a USB drive? Do you know how to interpret it? I experience Delayed Write Failures and it brings down everything. I'd be interested to know just to satisfy my own curiosity. I realize that D-Link may never hunt down this ghost, or if it is even on the list, but I keep my fingers crossed. It's either that or find out how to make a headless server.
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D-Link, give us 3G option back!
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Shadow, that probably won't happen.
ATT/Verizon/TMobile/Sprint/ETC probably get irked that D-Link offered a way to share the 3G with more than 1 PC. Sensing a potential dent in their RIDICULOUS profit margin, they probably whined screamed complained and moaned to D-Link until they removed the 3G function.
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That is probably what happened. More politics than "compatibility"
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I really like 1.32. The only feature that doesn't work for me that I need is UPNP. Ever since upgrading to 1.32, I've had the same problem the WHS person had, except with EVERY UPNP app I have. uTorrent for example. I have it set to automatically open a port with UPNP, but the D-Link firewall log keeps showing packets being blocked to the very port that should be open. This worked in prior releases.
UPNP hopefully will be fixed in next release!
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Shadow, that probably won't happen.
ATT/Verizon/TMobile/Sprint/ETC probably get irked that D-Link offered a way to share the 3G with more than 1 PC. Sensing a potential dent in their RIDICULOUS profit margin, they probably whined screamed complained and moaned to D-Link until they removed the 3G function.
who cares about those guys?
They've already said that they will likely add the feature back into a Euro and Canadian version.
The reason that they took it out is it was not working 100% with a number of the US providers. removing it actually harms them in the international perspective.
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There is already the DIR-451 as UMTS/HSDPA router.
It is sold in US but not in Europe (in the moment).
Perhaps they don't want a second one with this feature.
My last information was that there is no plan to update the current 1.21EUb07 version in the next weeks because it runs just fine.
But who knows ?
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Lycan,
I have logs and screenshots all zipped up and ready to send. Please provide instructions on how to get it to you. This is in regards to the UPnP issue.
Thanks
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1.32 appears to have fixed the problem I had with my printer connection and router reset after printing on the SharePort. However I'm still having a problem with print quality. A single page print job produces 2 pages - top half of print on page one and bottom half of print on page 2. Colors are also not being accurately reproduced - black and white text is printed as other colors, pictures have colors other thn what is on screen. Printer works fine when connected directly to PC, and ink tanks are full (using a Canon iP6600D). There's still some more work to do on the Beta, hope it gets resolved.
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1.32 appears to have fixed the problem I had with my printer connection and router reset after printing on the SharePort. However I'm still having a problem with print quality. A single page print job produces 2 pages - top half of print on page one and bottom half of print on page 2. Colors are also not being accurately reproduced - black and white text is printed as other colors, pictures have colors other thn what is on screen. Printer works fine when connected directly to PC, and ink tanks are full (using a Canon iP6600D). There's still some more work to do on the Beta, hope it gets resolved.
I have a HP DeskJet F4180 and I have no problems with the quality nor the amount of the pages printed- sounds to me, to be a printer config problem - but if you tell me, that the printer is working OK when on direct USB from the computer or when on wired LAN - then I would agree with you, that there might still be a problem with the router firmware....anyway I think D-Link has made a huge step in the right direction with FW 1.32
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1.32 appears to have fixed the problem I had with my printer connection and router reset after printing on the SharePort. However I'm still having a problem with print quality. A single page print job produces 2 pages - top half of print on page one and bottom half of print on page 2. Colors are also not being accurately reproduced - black and white text is printed as other colors, pictures have colors other thn what is on screen. Printer works fine when connected directly to PC, and ink tanks are full (using a Canon iP6600D). There's still some more work to do on the Beta, hope it gets resolved.
I'm having the same problem, printer prints out pages then stops half way and resumes on a new blank piece of paper. What a waste.
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who cares about those guys?
They've already said that they will likely add the feature back into a Euro and Canadian version.
The reason that they took it out is it was not working 100% with a number of the US providers. removing it actually harms them in the international perspective.
Unfortunately, the US is their home territory...
That, and they probably don't want to cannibalize market share from their other product dedicated to that function.
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I'm having the same problem, printer prints out pages then stops half way and resumes on a new blank piece of paper. What a waste.
Desperate and willing to try anything, I downloaded the Silex Driver and installed after removing the D-Link version and cleaning the registry (hardly anything to clean, but what the heck).
First test print came out correctly - one page document on one sheet of paper, correct colors, font size etc.
You may want to try the 1.32 Beta with the silex driver version:
http://www.silexeurope.com/en/home/support/productgroups/common-downloads/device-server-and-virtual-link.html
SX-Virtual Link 3.2.3 26.05.2009.
By no means a confirmation that all is well, but will report tomorrow after further testing.
Update:
Attempted to print a PDF file that mis-printed before (6 pages color, duplex). Again font style and color were correct on the first 2 pages (an improvement on what was happening previously), however the router choked on the third page and restarted, killing the print connection and the print job. This is what was happening before with 1.31NA.
Preliminary conclusion: Issue fixed for smaller print jobs - it appears that the router may have difficulty handling large data streams based on reported problems in other threads with SharePort connected Drives as well as printers.
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Hey everyone, I upgraded to this firmware after installing v1.31. The issue I am experiencing is a slow wireless connection when transmitting data. What I don't understand is it happens when I open up "utorrent", and have it there idling with no uploads or downloads. If there were to be an upload of 0.09kb/s, slow wireless connectivity will occur throughout my network. DNS Relay is turned off as I read other posts stating it may be the issue.
Now I am running 1.32 beta, and this problem still occurs, and I am so confused and frustrated, words just can't describe how I feel. After installing this firmware, I would of expected this flaw in the software to be corrected, but of course it wasn't. Either it was corrected and something is just wrong with my configurations, I have no idea. Right after the completion of 1.32 beta, I did a 30 second hard reset. Once that was done, I set up my wireless and security. If there are certain settings I am suppose to do, please inform me because this is driving me crazy.
Thank you guys.
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Actually there is an IE for mac....its very old but still there. I use it at work for our helpdesk system (only works 100% in ie) when I am to lazy to open my vm machine with windows or bootcamp myself. Just do a search for ie for mac and ull find 5.2.3 if you are desperate for IE. As for me Im stuck on 1.11 forever for the wake on lan ability and im fine with that.
Absolutely understood & agreed - But in this case the parameters for which Browser was acceptable were much too vague.
And us Mac users cannot use Internet Explorer, as there is no Mac version.
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Well, router stopped accepting new connections today. Got connection refused trying to access 192.168.0.1 and DNS couldn't do anything (DNS relay is on)
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Any word on when another beta firmware will be released. If not another beta, when will there be an official dlink firmware for this router. I was forced to revert back to my Linksys WRT350N with custom firmware of DD-WRT. Dlink DIR 655 is a great router and I was not looking forward to hook back up my linksys router because I Just dislike linksys. Slow wireless connection is what made me switch back to my old router, even this 1.32 beta did not fix that problem. Dlink needs to correct this issue or they're going to lose a lot of customers.
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...when will there be an official dlink firmware for this router.
''Official firmware? Did you say 'official firmware?' Yeah, when monkeys fly out of my...(insert slang anatomical reference here)''
This is pretty much the answer to expect anymore I'm afraid.
As for another beta--seems they just released one, but...