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[dabceb]

I am new member to the D-link forum community. I have a couple of questions to the DIR-655 users or other D-Link users. In my home we use Verizon FIOS (internet, cable and voice), have several laptops and gaming devices using wireless. We also have many devices (workstations, printers, xbox systems, Verizon component) hard-wired to the DIR-655. The DIR-655 appears to manage the traffic well, however I have a concern about performance becoming an issue. I'm not using QOS. Fortunately everyone in the household hasn't hit the internet simultaneously, so the perception I have is that the DIR-655 is fine based on our usage patterns.

Although I haven't received complaints from the family, I'd like to know how I can monitor the router's performance/capacity. I'm not aware of any D-Link admin utilities that I can view other than packet transmissions. Is there a tool that can report on the health of the router?

Last question, if an upgrade is to be considered, what recommendations can be made?

As mentioned earlier, there's many wireless devices (8 or so), 6-7 hardwired connections used. Several gaming device-types (Xbox 360, Xbox 1, PS 3) that hit the internet. Also one of the laptops is a MAC.

Appreciate your inputs and thoughts.

[EddieZ]

No, you cannot monitor bandwidth usage or stats and so. But perhaps your modem can.

Which home router you choose (not looking at professional models), they can al be used easily with the number of devices you have. It's obvious that the more devices are attached, this will have a certain impact. If 4-8 devices (or even 1 misconfigured client) start using P2P, opening up tons of ports you will notice this if you are playing games. P2P kills about every router when used improperly. And finally, it is the available bandwidth of your subscription that is the greatest limitation. So use QoS to prioritize bandwidth usage. If that does not suffice, get a router with a real bandwidth limiter, but be prepared to pay a bit more. Even with those routers a P2P client can nail the system by the way.

[funchords]

Do a traceroute to some distant location, and note the first address that falls outside of your private address space.  This is your first hop. 

Ping that address during quiet times on your network, and during busy times on your network.  If the results are nearly the same, then you aren't experiencing any congestion that you can fix. 

If it is higher, then you need to determine if the problem is related to your network (it could be that your ISP is just busier).  Shut down your internal traffic and test again.  If it stays high, then it isn't your network and there's nothing more you can do.  If it drops, then you may be having some constraints that you can tune. 

Looking at Status - Internet Sessions helps you see who is doing what across the WAN port.  Still, without complaints from anyone, I'm not sure I'd do anything.  Some of the heaviest users of bandwidth is designed for background utilization -- so it probably should be more susceptible for drop. 

[EddieZ]

Ping is mostly inportant when playing online games (you want to react fast in the game!). Otherwise a somewhat higher ping will not bother you.

[dabceb]

Thanks for the details. I'll look further into these thoughts.