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[Nogdl]

Well, after not finding much help online, I just decided to try and do stuff myself.  I'm a complete newbie at networking so it was like taking blind steps.

The manual isn't much help with other blogs have already talked about so at least I didn't feel bad there.

I tried calling their support and I was LITERALLY helping them!  And I know nothing!  I'll make sure to let others know on Tom's Hardware, etc. about my horrid support experiences and if I didn't own another D-Link product, I'd never buy again.  Although from other sites, I can tell their horrid support is no secret to most

Anyway, here are my questions now:

I think it is working because I connected it to my laptop, disconnected from the wireless SSID it normally connects to, and it now shows a wired connection icon.  And the speed is pretty nice!

But there are things I don't get.

1)  When I go into the status of my DIR-655, it shows a connection from 192.168.0.183 with NO name under LAN Computers, as well as my laptop and desktop (with their respective computer names).  But in the 1522 setup under Network Settings, I have a device name (Netbios name) there.  Shouldn't this be showing up so I can tell it is indeed my 1522 device?

2) On the 1522, when I go into wireless setup which I configured manually, how come I can't change the band, the mode, the wireless channel, etc?  They are all greyed out.  The only things I can set are the wireless name (the SSID of my router which is what I entered) and the channel width.  Everything else is greyed out.

For example it has band set to 2.4/5 even though the DIR-655 can only support 2.4 so i guess it doesn't matter, but I'd like to maybe change channels to see if speed increases, etc.

Thanks in advance!

[jpepin]

1. I assume 192.168.0.183 is the IP address of your laptop, which is connected to the network via a physical connection with the wireless bridge?  I don't own the DIR-655, and don't know all the specifics of your network, but you can still be able to tell that the 1522 is connected.  If your router shows the MAC address of the connecting devices, that's one way to confirm that you're seeing your bridge.  You can also look at the IP address as confirmation.  
Your bridge is obviously working if you can browse the internet from the laptop connected to it.  To confirm that your bridge is connected to the right SSID, aside from looking at the router's web interface, you could log into the bridge interface (192.168.0.50)  and check out the Status tab.

2.  The latest firmware (1.21) gives you the option to change the data rate in mixed mode, although in bridge mode, the band (and other wireless attributes) is determined by the settings on the router that you're connecting to, since the 1522 is just another wireless client.  Changing the channel won't make your network any faster.  It's best to leave it on auto if available, so the router can pick the channel with the least interference from surrounding wireless devices.  

[Nogdl]

Thank you very much for your reply.  Let me check a few things and I'll post my findings

I'm still miffed as to why I can't see the name of the device connecting to the 655 but that is another story

[dweand]

I think that is based upon the device.  My iPhone shows no device name when connected to the DIR-655.

Also, the 1522 won't be directly listed on your DIR-655 because for some reason it doesn't list non-DHCP addresses.