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[nhl2k]

I recently bought the DAP-1522 because I had an old wireless G bridge that was actually slower than my internet (our city has fiber to the home with speeds of 50mbps  ). Anyway, I had the bridge connected to my XBox 360. When I got the DAP-1522, I didn't have any trouble setting it up and had my XBox connected in under 15 minutes. Everything went fine that day and I turned off my XBox when I was done and went to sleep. The next morning I got up, turned on the XBox, but it couldn't connect to XBox Live. I kept trying to connect and finally decided to restart the device. The wireless came back and it was working fine.
I came back later that day, turned on the XBox, and again it couldn't connect to Live. This time I kept trying to reconnect for a minute or two, and it finally reconnected. I've now done this quite a few times to verify that the wireless is dropping after some period of inactivity, and when it does, I can't pull up the web interface from a PC on my network, further verifying that the wireless is down. I even noticed that if I plug it in with no devices attached, the wireless link flashes for a few seconds, and then turns off. Again, I can't pull up the web interface...wireless is down.
I do notice that when I turn off my XBox, like most devices, the network card is turned off and the light for that port on the DAP turns off. So everything I've seen points to the wireless timing out if there are no devices connected to any of the gigabit ports. I've tried tinkering with all kinds of settings with no luck. I don't think there is anything wrong with the unit, but I'd like to know if anyone else has experienced this so I can know whether I have a bad unit or if this is just the way they work, in which case I'll look for another device.

Thanks!

[Mackerel]

Sounds o so much like a power-saver option. Now I'm not sure DAP-1522 has one, and whether or not it is configurable, but the more recent D-Link products now have this Eco-setting, that powers down/low after a specified idle-time.
In the guide, and in the emulator I cannot find anything related to this, so you might be out of luck...

[nhl2k]

Yeah, it does sound like a power saver, but it's strange that the wireless LED seems to keep flashing when it does this. Anyway, I'm tired of fighting with wireless bridges for my XBox, so I'll be returning it. I've had some annoying issue with all of them where my XBox can't connect to Live right away, even though it's set to. I decided to just go wired and put a short cable through the wall with jacks on both sides since my TV is right behind my router in my computer room. So far, that is working great. Every time I've turned on my XBox, it connects to Live right away.

[lizzi555]

I can confirm this behavior here, it seems to be normal for this device.

Sometimes wireless will reconnect immediately when I power on the machine connected to its LAN but sometimes I have to restart the DAP.

As there is only one Win7 desktop connected to my DAP, I always start them together and have no problems with it but this should be changed, so that the DAP keeps the connection even if there is no client connected.

But a wired connection is always the better choice if possible. It is more reliable.

[nhl2k]

lizzi555,
Thanks for confirming that's what it does. They definitely should change it, or at least make it an option. It wouldn't be so bad if the wireless came up right away, but it seems to take a while to initiate the wireless connection again, making it terrible for an XBox 360 only connection.
Also, I find another disappointing thing to be the speeds. Our city owned fiber also gives us a 100mbps peer-to-peer connection with any other customers also running fiber. They offer a speed test to verify how fast your connection is through that. With wired, I always get 90mbps up and down. With this device through wireless, the most I could get was around 50mbps. Here I was thinking I would need the gigabit switch so it wouldn't slow the wireless down. No worries there! I thought wireless N was going to be better than this.

[tynopex]

For me, I find that the device does seem to go to some low power mode when nothing is attached, but I can still access it over wifi, it just takes 30 seconds or so of the page failing to load before it wakes up and responds.

[Mackerel]

For me, I find that the device does seem to go to some low power mode when nothing is attached, but I can still access it over wifi, it just takes 30 seconds or so of the page failing to load before it wakes up and responds.

Which is about the normal time for a complete handshake setup, including WPA2...