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[Widget]

I just got my AT&T Uverse up and running.  If I connect directly to the Uverse router, I got 12 to 13 Mbps but if I connect though DIR-615 I only get around 6-8 Mbps.  The D-Link is connected to the Uverse router port directly.  I want the DIR-615 to act like a switch (so I don't have to re-setup everything on my network to point to Uverse router).  The AT&T tech said I should buy a Netgear switch to replace my DIR-615 (I need 8 ports and Uverse router only come with 4 ports). 

Any suggestion as to what's wrong with my DIR-615 setup and why the difference of speed?

Thanks

[Hard Harry]

Honestly, its better to turn the router off on your ATT device and put it in bridge mode then try doing it on your d-link. But if you must, I think if you turn off the DHCP server, SPI and basically everything, and then connect the ethernet from the att device to a LAN port on the router, then use the other 3 LAN's as ports. But that will only give you 7. I don't know if its possible with different hardware revisions or firmwares, but with Revision C 3.10NA, it doesn't seem to be possible to fully bridge the WAN over to the LAN. You could load dd-wrt though, that would work, that becomes more complex.

[Skello]

http://static.highspeedbackbone.net/pdf/D-Link-DIR-615-Manual.pdf

Page 73, Connect to Another Router

You need to disabled UPnP, DHCP, configure static LAN IP and connect it to the other router via a LAN port (not WAN). The referenced material has more details. G'luck.

PS: You said you need 8 ports? Do you have 8 wired devices? Because even in this setup, one port on the AT&T Uverse and one port on the D-LINK will be busy with the connection between them. So you are left with 6 available ports.