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[pyancey0]

    For 300$ you'd think you'd get 300ft of signal I'm finding this unit will give me 1 bar when standing over it.  Are those extra two antennas for holding onion rings??

I've updated my Dir-855 to the lastest and greatest firmware 1.21NA I currently have my N network on low power transmit and G on high, I've set the channels manually and still have really poor signal strength. I was just on the phone with pre-sales (google would have saved me 30mins) looking for antenna upgrades, extenders and such; A dead end nonetheless.

Does anyone have or know or the best possible config's for the wireless settings of this device that will give me max range. Is there a crappy range button I need to uncheck.
 I do not need the N network if that helps.

The router resides in a room with quite a bit of windows and the walls are concrete. I don't' want to turn this into a bad location of the router thread, I'm up for relocating but before I do I just want clarification if this is a known issue and ha-ha sucker. Thanks in advance!

Phillip.

[thetoad30]

My recommendation, if you can... return the router and get your money back. Then use it to buy a Linksys G model for DD-WRT firmware. Much better firmware, much better range, and about $250 cheaper.

If you find later you do want N on the 5GHz band, then get an Apple Airport Extreme. Simultaneous dual-band and it works. Plus you know you can at least get some support by walking into a store and making a scene if you need to, instead of just being hung up on by D-Link. Even then, at least you know you only paid $180 for the Apple so it's a lot less frustrating.

Just my $0.02 worth. Kind of like this router. Ha.

[TallCool1]

Phillip,

Disable the 5GHz radio and enable channel autoscan on 2.4Ghz.  See if this improves your range (it did in my case.)

[pyancey0]

I'll try the disable options, I didn't see a check box to disable I initial wanted to do that. I'll keep looking. This router was purchased by corporate so I'll make the suggestion before they order anymore of these.
Thanks again fellah!

Phillip.

[DIR-855 :-(]

Well I think I have worked it out, every time someone smites me my Karma goes down.

Please smite me everyone, this is an open invitation and I will not (never have) take it personally. I want to try to get to -100.

[nyquist]

Hi

Just my two cents worth.

I bought the DIR-855 about a week ago and can also confirm that the signal strength is very very low, even on full.  Even in the next room I am scarcly able to pick up a signal on either 2.4 or 5 Ghz.  I have a 3-year old belkin router which registers more than 25 % more signal strength than the d-link.  The dlink router has software 1.21NA. 

It appears I might have bought a nice white paperweight.  If you buy this router, dont say you weren't warned.

[nullsign]

I wish I had seen these posts before I spent $300 on this router... I thought I was paying extra for a premium router able to handle 5ghz and 2.4ghz well at the same time (as dlink claims)

Instead, even when only 100 feet away, with only 1 wall between me and the router, I BARELY get 2 bars, normally getting 1.

Even worse, on the 5ghz band I get latency spikes from 150ms-2000ms at times ... it's quite random.

@5ghz look at these ping times from the PC to the Router.

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=193ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=98ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=146ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=64ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=272ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=209ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=274ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=71ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=236ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=579ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=83ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=326ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=82ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=569ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=80ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=224ms TTL=64


This router is meh.

[TallCool1]

Unfortunately this turned into a deal breaker for me.

Sold DIR 655

Sold DIR 855

Purchased WNDR3700 (*2) 

Downlink delta between old and new is close to a 20 dBm (YES dBm) improvement  (un real I know I retested OTA multiple times and the client was in a location that used to (past tense now) be marginal.)  Video streaming perfect now!

Regretably however as there are FAR more features in factory f/w on 855 / 655  If they worked it would be another story BUT first is a reliable RF link so my decision was made for me.

[john_matrix]

Anyone know db performance of antennas of the DIR-855 ?