I have a 2 year old DIR655 A3 revision I think with FW 1.11. It has been running flawless ever since I got it. The only time I've had a problem is when power went out due to storms. Other than that no other reboots. It does have the weird deauthentication issue with two of my wireless clients. The Wii and now a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH running DD-WRT in client bridge mode. It doesn't affect the operation of those as it they always work and connect. No drops, just a bunch of deauthentication and reconnection messages in the log.
I have our blu-ray player hooked to the Buffalo client bridge with Cat 5E cable and it streams HD netflix just fine. The bridge is N set to N only and the DIR655 is set in NG for the Wii and a few other G devices we have. It connects at 300 Mbps as do our N laptops. They stay that way even when a 54G device connects.
NOW, should I upgrade to 1.34NA? I remember I upgraded once to 1.21 but went back because they wouldn't connect at 300 Mbps anymore. This is because they removed the 40 Mhz channel option for the stupid "friendly neighbor." Also had wireless drops.
so, have held off on upgrading and am out of the loop. Would an upgrade to 1.34NA give me 300 Mbps? Is the Auto 20/40 Mhz option there? An upgrade may fix the deauthentication issues. But I'm going to stay with 1.11 if I can't get 300 Mbps.
Please advise, Thanks!