Hello everyone,
I just bought a dLink-655 several days ago. It is supposed to replace my airport extreme g router, on a small home network. And I am having several problems, some perhaps fixable, and was wondering if others have experienced similar problems or have any thoughts. The unit is H/W ver A4 and F/W ver 1.20 out of the box. I updated the firmware as I was setting up the router. I have a wireless n macbook, a n macbook pro, and a wired G5 that I use as a server, with tcp ports 80 and 22, and udp port 22 forwarded to that machines ip, which is outside the DHCP range. ( I also have an older XP sp2 with g card that doesn't work at the moment, but that is way down the priority list).
1)The main problem I have experiencing is a very long hang / delay, almost a minute, when I open Dreamweaver CS3. I have the welcome screen enabled. I found one google entry about dlink routers and Dreamweaver acting sort of strange together and it recommended to disable the welcome screen, and this worked fine. Starts up quick, but I really like the welcome screen.
Then I found that iPhoto does the same thing when I try to launch it. The application hangs for almost a minute on start up, giving the dreaded spinning wheel. I disabled "check for updates automatically, and the problem went away.
If I plug in my old router, everything functions like it should, and no start up hangs. I guess it has something to do with the router firewall or something blocking communications for these programs, but it's really just a guess. The dLink has many more configurations possibilities, so I might not have it correct, but don't know were to start. I check the activity monitor, at it states the programs aren't responding, but they eventually fully load. Why only on start-up? I ran Little Snitch in the background, and it doesn't pick up any network activity attempts during the hang up.
I checked the other forums, esp. the one about resolving DNS, but they did mention that F/W ver 1.21 might not be the best, and to go with 1.11. I tried to reflash it, but it gave me an error message saying that maybe this software wasn't meant for this device. I did manage to reflash back to ver 1.20, but the problems still persist.
I'd like to figure these out. As minor as they seem, combine them with the fact that the usb sharepoint doesn't work on a mac, so I give up the ability to print share, and the fact that I haven't got the xp box working either, and it sorta adds up.
Maybe I'm in over my head. I've configured tons of these things, and never really had such a problem. Not sure if its me, or maybe the 1.21 software, but I can't reflash to the older ver that people say works well.
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for your time