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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-655 => Topic started by: neuwirth on July 02, 2009, 06:54:39 PM
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I purchased my DIR-655 in April 2008. It worked fine until April 2009. It is used to provide a solid connection and provide multiple IP addresses for a virtual server used in my application. When the connection is lost, the application must be taken down and restarted - 20 minutes lost. I had to run out Easter Sunday morning (in the rain) to buy a Belkin router in order to get back up and running. I contacted D-Link and they sent me a replacement DIR-655 which worked fine until this week. The Belkin router is back up and running as a replacement. I have called my ISP (AT&T) to complain about their DSL service. Every time they tested the line and found it supplying a signal within specs. Since the Belkin router has been my only router, I have had no problem with losing internet connection. That leads me to believe the router has a problem. The latest firmware version is installed - 1.31 I set the modem (A Motorola 2210) in bridge mode for the DIR-655. The Belkin does not run with the modem in bridged mode. Has anyone had a similar experience or suggestions on what could be the problem?
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Possible sources of the problem.
NAT table set too low.
IP release times set too high.
Router underpowered.
The first two can be fixed by D-link in future firmware updates.
Better yet, buy a router that uses open source firmware like the Linksys wrt54gl. Then install DD-WRT, or Tomato, or Openwrt.
Problems solved.
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@GullyFoyle: Why don't you go play on the DD-WRT forum?
You're truly trolling this forum with your personally motivated attacks on the DIR.
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I thought I would give the DIR-655 one more try. By the way, the hardware version is A4. I tried various options mentioned in the 'router freezes' forum. I reset it to factory defaults. It is behaving worse than before. I get an Internet connection for a few seconds to a minute then nothing for five. Since this is a replacement router, I'm not sure if D-Link support will even talk to me about this issue. I'll see what they have to say.
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I thought I would give the DIR-655 one more try. By the way, the hardware version is A4. I tried various options mentioned in the 'router freezes' forum. I reset it to factory defaults. It is behaving worse than before. I get an Internet connection for a few seconds to a minute then nothing for five. Since this is a replacement router, I'm not sure if D-Link support will even talk to me about this issue. I'll see what they have to say.
Try this:
Reset to default, reflash firmware, setup clean manually.
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Update... may be fixed. Called D-Link RMA Dept, Level 3 support. Spoke with Carol. She had me go to Advanced, Advanced Network and change the WAN Port Settings from AUTO to 100Mbps. Seems to be working now. I'll give it a week and then update.
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Yep, that's probably cause no 3 for failing connections. 'Auto' settings are never to be trusted.
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:( Well, the fix did not last. My DIR-655 crashed and burned this afternoon. Internet was there, then it wasn't, then it was there, then it wasn't. During this time I could never access the router itself. Now D-Link is supposed to send me my third router via RMA. I may just give up and keep the Belkin up and running. It has given me NO trouble. The UPS fees sending this stuff back may be the deciding factor.
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There is an app you can get called PRTG Network Monitor, you can set it to ping Google every 60 seconds and it will provide you a list of network drops and their duration. We had the same problem and determined it was not the server, or router, even though our ISP did do a network test, every time they tested the problem did not occur. This is a good tool to record the problem you are having.
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Received my replacement (third) router from D-link a couple of weeks ago. So far it has been solid as a rock for the last 10 days. This is additional proof that it was the router and not the internet connection that was failing. I hope this is my LAST router.
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this happened to me...internet connection keeps dropping...and the log shows a deauthentication received messagge...i disabled anything that had to do with security but to no avail.
Then i remembered that when i installed my Windows 7, i updated the generic Windows 7 driver for my wireless network adapater with the Windows Vista driver that came with my Laptop.
What i did was to uninstall the wireless network adapter and checked the delete the driver and booted up again. Windows 7 again installed its generic driver and voila my dropping problem is gone.
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sorry about this..this is a continuation to my earlier post...
I downloaded a 200 MB file after i did a reinstall of the generic driver in Windows 7 and had a successfful download without interruption whatsoever.
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Third router is now giving me trouble. It was fine for 3 or 4 weeks. Monday, August 10th it locked up and I could not access the web interface. Status LED on solid, not blinking as it should. I cycled the power and the router came back up and worked fine until this morning. It locked up again. I never touched the modem; just cycled the power on the router. I called D-Link support. They seemed ready to send me my fourth router, but then had second thoughts. They said I need to speak with a higher level support person who does not work on weekends. I will give him a call on Monday to see what they are willing to do. Each time it costs me around $8 to send the broken router back to them in addition to the hours I spend on the phone describing all the problems. This is clearly a router problem. It came with H/W Ver: A4 and F/W Ver: 1.21. Since it worked without a problem for a few weeks, I decided not to upgrade the firmware.
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I have to agree with GullyFoyle. My DIR-655 A2 had the same behaviors. I seriously stuck with that router longer than I should have.
No firmwares ever fixed anything, just made things worse.
Had a WRT54GL flashed with DD-WRT for about 3 months now. A LOT less headaches.
I still used my DIR-655 as a Gigabit switch for about a month. It died. Tried a different power adapter and no lights would come on.
I spent $150 for that router brand new. It's in my home. We seriously didn't wear it out in 2 years.
I spent $35 5 years ago on a Network Everywhere router from Wal-Mart that is still humming along right now. $50 on my WRT54GL. If BOTH of those died right now, I could buy them again and still have spent less money than the DIR-655.
Ebay would be a great place to give those units to someone who has spare time to tinker with shoddy firmware and useless setup screens. Personally, I like being able to use my network equipment without constant interruption from BASIC functions.
Laters!
Oh, and have you seen how many 5 egg reviews there are for the Linksys routers? Dwarfs the D-Links considerably.