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[Ramon Zarat]

Hi D-Link community.

I've read other report about this, but the validity and pertinence of a 2 lines report with no specific information or context, except "router is stable for 2 weeks" is kind of ... "thin" to justify a firmware upgrade.

I'll give you my setup and tell about my experience.

Hardware and connection:

DIR-655
Firmware 1.21NA
Hardware revision E3
2 X wired PC
1 X wired Xbox 360
1 X wired Xbox 1
1 X wireless laptop 802.11G
1 X wireless Iphone

Configuration:

All the following features are enabled:

SPI
UPnP
Traffic Shaping
QoS Engine
Automatic Classification
Dynamic Fragmentation
Anti-spoof checking
Multicast Streams

Manual Uplink Speed: Set to my ISP reported maximum upload speed
DHCP server is ON, but all LAN addresses are reserved

Wireless specific:

Transmit Power = HIGH
Mixed 802.11 N,G and B
Auto Channel Scan
Channel Width: auto 20/40MHz
WISH ENABLED


Usage:

1 PC is up 24/7 as a torrent seed box using Utorrent 2.0
1 PC for browsing
1 laptop for browsing
360 for gaming
Xbox 1 for streaming audio and video on LAN and the internet
Laptop for browsing
Iphone for browsing

Future update to this setup:

Add 1 server for FTP and web server and 1 NAS. Already bought an HP Procurve 1400-8G gigabit switch for the backbone. I want to be able to login and access my LAN from the Internet. I want to setup a web page and have a FTP site.


Experience so far with this setup:

Wireless: Excellent, no drop or disconnection, ever. Very good speed and range
Wired: Excellent performance overall. Traffic shaping if working perfectly. Torrent caped at 85% of maximum up and download and and still can watch youtube and game on the 360 without lag.

Max uptime without reboot: 4 months. Only because of electric service interruptions...


Conclusion: Save for the HNAP issue, I don't see why I should upgrade. Is there any feature 1.33NA provides over 1.21NA that would be useful to me?

BTW, fantastic description of the HNAP problem: http://www.sourcesec.com/Lab/dlink_hnap_captcha.pdf


Ramon

[Rift]

If your network is running fine and there's no specific feature in 1.33NA you need then I don't see a reason to upgrade.

I for one did the upgrade about a week ago and have had zero issues, iv actually noticed an improvement in wireless performance. My reason for upgrading from 1.21 was the DNS Relay issue that the previous firmwares suffered from. While it took awhile for the slowdown to show up when it did it hit hard and the router needed to be rebooted. When I heard mainly good things about 1.33NA I figured what the heck lets give it a go. So far all is good but only time will tell if everything is completely fine.

[EddieZ]

If all features work well in 1.2x, don't change. But Shareport is still unstable in 1.2x and that was fixed in 1.3x.

[Sammydad1]

Hi,

I had 1.21 and it was nice and stable...Shareport worked fine with the v1.14 & 1.15 shareport clients.....

I decided to try the 1.33 update after www23 issued his tweaks for a downgrade path incase the 1.33 bombed for me....

I have been up with 1.33 about a week now and its fine for me.....Had to install shareport v1.10 clients on each LAN pc that needed to print to the shareport USB printer (canon Pixma iP4500)....

I use DNS relay, no QOS at this point, four or five schedules wrapping midnight and access policys, about 20 DHCP reservations both wired and wireless, .11N and .11G mixed mode, WPA2 encryption, Website filtering by schedule and access policy, Gbit and 100T wired mixed, also v1.X HomePlug (Powerline LAN adapters....


Again I say...so far so good.... Both wired and wireless performance is very good and stable.  I did re-enter all my settings by hand, as opposed to importing from a saved settings file.....


Dave