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[aula]

As an ITPRO I wont recommend people to use lots of money on a product that has so little progress in further development.

* No IPV6 support yet probably means that there will be no IPV6 support?
* Not a new firmware released in a long time.

If I where to guess most time&money is used on the most sold products - not the Platinum Products Line(Platinum my ass!)

Cisco here I come. (I've used dlink routers for a lot of years - but I simply don't accept this lousy support policy.)

[FurryNutz]

There an issue you had with your device? You just dumped DLink because they haven't released FW or IPv6 support sooner that you'd like?

Just because they haven't release support for IPv6 at this time doesn't mean they aren't working on it or thinking about it. There are other factors in development and releasing FW and features for products and doing that in a timely fashion.

I would also venture to suspect that IPv6 support will not be seen greatly at the home end user level till most other Corporate, Enterprise levels have implemented it fully or mostly there first. IPv6 isn't a requirement as of yet for home end users to connect to the Internet and not having it doesn't interfere with current connections. The IPv4 addresses that are running out are in question for the Major OEMS, Corporate, Enterprize and Internet backbones. Those have priority and should be working to take action to get IPv6 supported and going. I believe once they are fully up and running on it, then I'm sure the home end user will see more and more support for IPv6.

Well raising sales is one thing however if the devices isn't supported on the network fully, seems like a waste of time. Specially when there are other factors out there, How about SW support? Not all browsers support it at this time. I presume they will in time.

[chascent]

I agree with Aulua. WNDR 3700 and Linksys E-4200 both fully support IPV6. Even the DIR 825 has supported IPV6 for some time now. Why not the DIR-855?

Charlie C

[aula]

The reason that there is no IPV6 support yet, is simply that the DIR-855 has not sold enough units.

From Dlink its an economical calculation behind -  where to invest time and money.
They dont put time and money in developing features for devices that has sold a low number of units.

My advice for those who still want to buy a dlink router is to go cheap - buy one of their best sellers - avoid expensive units with potential low sales.

Sad for those of us who bought this expensive unit in the first place, thinking that an expensive unit like the DIR-855 would be well supported - and have new features added quick.

[FurryNutz]

I presume that your thinking of added quick features comes from some documentation somewhere?

I wouldn't rule out the 855 not getting IPv6 support. Just seems to me that we need to be patient and let the OEMs develop and implement it first. I'd rather have a well built feature than something thats done 1/2 @zz.

I presume OEMS have the ball and will do what ever needs to be done on there own terms and time line. We can belly ache all day about this, I don't think it would help it any or get it that much faster. Until DLink says something official, I would keep a positive though and be patient about IPv6 and there routers. Until the Fat Lazy sings man. 


Just because other OEMS have support on there routers doesn't mean there fully supported yet at the ISP or SW level entirely. I'm still waiting on my ISP here. I've had IPv6 on my Mac since OSX 10.2 or 10.3, can't remember which one. Been years since I've had it. Never used it. When we get full support world wide then we can belly ache if we can't seem to get it in house. I doubt that will happen though. My 2 cents.

[Quick]

I can understand getting a jump on things, but is there anything you can't do or any place you can't get to right now with IPv4? outside of duplicate address detection on the local link?