So the time came yesterday..dun dun dun...big box from new egg. Inside it was the 890 router and some cat7 cable. Decided it was time to switch out all my cat 5 cable ( yes I know, dont mock me). I will admit to being worried about all this. I bought the asus 87u when it first came out, and had nothing but problems with it. And here I am purchasing another expensive router that is very new to the community.
My isp is Baja Broadband. I pay for 50mb down and 5mb up. Of course I never really see that speed except during off hours at like midnight. But I am fine with that, as Iong as I get close. Well about 5 months back, pretty soon after getting that asus router, i started having major problems. Huge packet losses and speeds below 25 mb during peak hours. The packet loss was so bad I was unable to play some games like neverwinter and I could only play on one server with World of Tanks. What games were playable I would get lag spikes lasting 5 to 10 sec. I just accepted it was my isp causing this, which they couldn't figure out the problem, and knowing I was going to be moving soon, I didn't fight it. Well there was enough weird things going on with my asus router, like constantly having to reset it, I wondered if my router was causing the problems all along. What I couldn't accept though is that a router would cause me packet loss. Well damn the torpedoes, lets get this dlink router.
I can happily say with some frustration, that it was practically all the router. Now I am not running any complicated setups. I have mixed wired and wireless connections with no bridges. Haven't tuned much on the router, a lot is at default settings. Have not messed with firewall settings. Matter of fact the only thing that isn't default is I turned on the multicast settings and changed the router's ip to 192.168.1.1. That is it, and everything is glorious. Everything connected no problems and I am getting almost 0 packet loss. Speed is better at 35 mb during peak hours. Probably my isp there but I will take that with no packet loss.
I have nothing ill to say of this router at this time. It is doing exactly what I want it to do. Time will tell though. If I can help anybody out with problems/troubleshooting please feel free to ask here or email me. Please understand though, my scope of networking knowledge is limited.
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Topic: Just Bought DIR-890 (Read 10427 times)