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[kmassey001]

Maybe I'm blind but as far as I can tell you have no feature based forum.  I mean sure you have forums about features but you have to go looking under the perfect Header usually under the exact model of a product.  What I'm talking about is a section regarding any feature, current or dreamed up, that can be or is applicable to multiple lines of your products.

I appreciate and understand the importance of specifiying make and model for support purposes but also understand you need a information soup section section that offers a more broad spectrum of topics.

I appologize if you have one that I just haven't seen but if you haven't I'm sure we would all appreciate it.

Also, a direct link to your forums under support would be nice.  I ended up giving up and finding them via Google before I remembered you again had to go to a 'specific model' and then look under support.  Again this is way to specific of a link and doesn't go along with the norm.

People want things the way they know them, even if the way they know them is inefficient or out dated.

[Sammydad1]

The one feature that has many of us consternated is SharePort, and there IS a Shareport specific forum.  I am not sure what other features you are referring to, and what about them would make it worthy of an individual forum...well maybe Securspot (and how, like Shareport, many love to hate it)....

[davevt31]

This tends to be more of a User helping User forum, with certain DLink guys popping in from time to time.  I would rather see just a router being a router, forget all the extra stuff.

[kmassey001]

I'm not asking for more individual forums.  That is all this Beta Forum has is individual forums.

This post has nothing to do with the Dir-655 directly yet the only people that will happen on this post are people looking under Dir-655 or people that just happen to have this pop up under a search query.

That's the problem.  You can't make or discuss a feature that exists across a whole product line without narowing your viewers by choosing a specific model.

That's great that the occasional feature makes the cut and get thier own individual forum, unfortunetly the rest get left under whatever model the poster happens to settle on.

Forums typically don't work that cut and dry.  I agree that most forums have way to much disorganization but I argue that this forum has far too much organization.  A little extra slack may prove fruitful.

davevt31- I'm curious, if you just wanted a router that would be a router why would you by a dlink?  The problem I found when routers were just routers is that if something didn't quite work you were pretty much screwed.  I mean the dlink interface can be a bit overwhelming but there's few needs that can't be satisfied.

[davevt31]

I bought the DLInk because I had a G router at the time, when the N's started rolling around the 655 caught my eye.  I waited a while before buying because of the price, but then I got one on sale along with matching NICs.  When I bought mine there was no shareport or securespot on the router which is fine for me, I want my router to just sit there and give me access to the Internet from multiple computers.  I bought a printer that had an Ethernet port built into it, so I don't need shareport.

I have an A2 which has been rock solid for over 2 years.  I have tried all the beta firmwares with no issues also.  I don't do any virtual servers or port forwarding and I use the USB port on the router to run a laptop cooling pad that sits under the 655.