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[steveng57]

Doing anything with a remote printer with this version of the firmware is so slow as to be unusable.  File copy and a few other things seem to be be a little slower as well.

I had to resort to rolling back to version 1.11 of the firmware.  I've seen this briefly mentioned on a few other thread and I have posted a bug to DLink.  Does anyone know the status of this problem.  It is really quite significant.  Printing is a necessity and it really was a troublesome execise when I had to troubleshoot this issue in haste in order to print my boarding passes the other day.

[EddieZ]

Keep in mind that 1.20 is still beta.

I've also upgraded to 1.20 b07 without any problems (A2 hardware, but that seems irrelevenat when looking at the material changes between hardware vesions). I've even flashed back to 1.11 a few times to see if I could reproduce...but no luck (strange way of putting it though  ).

Issue seems to be depending on certain settings. Perhaps a good idea to post them in order to compare...

[barich]

Same problem here.  Oddly, my XP clients work okay, it's the Vista ones that have the problem with 1.20.  But it goes away if I revert to 1.11.

[steveng57]

The remote resources being accessed are on Vista and Windows Servers (2008 and 2003/WHS) and they all seem to suffer from the problem to some degree or other.  I have a shared printer on Vista and another on Windows Server 2008 and they are both so slow as to be unusable.

I have A2 of the hardware.  Nothing all that funky about how I have it configurd.
- WPA2 personal for security
- Wireless N and G only (B is disabled)
- set to 20/40 automatic.

The delays happen whether over wired or wireless connections.

[davevt31]

It seems that most of the problems have been with Vista and Server.  I am wondering if this may have something to do with IPv6 being enabled on those machines.  I am running Vista (ethernet connection) with a network printer hooked into one of the lan ports of the router and it has no issues printing.  I have unchecked the IPv6 in the NIC card properties on this machine since the router doesn't do IPv6.  Have been running the 1.20 since it first came out in the betas and have never had an issue printing or transfering files between machines.

[EddieZ]

My problem free PC uses Vista Ultimate, my laptop Vista Premium Home. Both have no issues whatsoever. Both have IPv6 working...

[adamde]

Keep in mind that 1.20 is still beta.

I've also upgraded to 1.20 b07 without any problems (A2 hardware, but that seems irrelevenat when looking at the material changes between hardware vesions). I've even flashed back to 1.11 a few times to see if I could reproduce...but no luck (strange way of putting it though  ).

Issue seems to be depending on certain settings. Perhaps a good idea to post them in order to compare...

1.20 is on the public DLink download site as the current build foir this router, so it doesn't appear to be beta. I have exactly the same printer problem as reported here, whereas everything was running fine with 1.11. If it isn't resolved soon, I will need to revert to 1.11.

My config, as far as it's relevant, is an HP printer USB-connected to an HP EX475 Windows Home Server ans shared out; other computers on the network are Vista Ultimate, and now takes ages to do anything at all with the shared printer; in 1.11, it was as near as instantaneous. I have not yet tried disabling IPv6, but will do so now. I doubt that it will have an impact.

(update 5 minutes later: I disabled IPv6, and it made absolutely no difference)

[steveng57]

I certainly looks like the 1.20 is out of Beta.  It is on the general download site with no special markings or indicators.

Also, by the preponderance of people with issues here, I don't think that hails of "it works for me" are all that helpful.  While they might provide insight that there are circumstances that the propblem doesn't occur, the volume of those having issues would certainly indicate that this issue is broad and needs addressing.  If there is something that you all that have printing working with 120 and Vista and all that you are doing differently than the rest of us that you could share, maybe we can help DLink isolate the problem.

I used to be a big fan of DLink, but moved away from them about 2 years back because of bugs in their firmware.  I came back because I read good reviews about this product, but now am begiinng to regret my decision.  I've only had this thing about 2 months and already need to run to forums for help.  Linksys isn't perfect, but I never had these challenges with them.  This is a pretty common scenario to have troubel with.  Printing is still used by most.

[pcew]

I totally agree with adamde. The moment I revert my firmware from 1.20 to 1.11 I got my shared printer worked very well. I had to call HP technical department to help me out with my printer on a network but none worked. I did lots of settings and downloaded many programs but none helped.
Thanks to adamde and I really appreciate it.

To, DLink technical support : Do something with firmware 1.20 it needs to be fixed.

[EddieZ]

I totally agree with adamde. The moment I revert my firmware from 1.20 to 1.11 I got my shared printer worked very well. I had to call HP technical department to help me out with my printer on a network but none worked. I did lots of settings and downloaded many programs but none helped.
Thanks to adamde and I really appreciate it.

To, DLink technical support : Do something with firmware 1.20 it needs to be fixed.

Looking at the forum I have a feeling D-link already knows...1.11 works quite good so there's no use pushing them, is there? 

[barich]

Has anyone tried the 1.21 beta that was just released in the "beta code" section to see if it resolves this problem?  There are no release notes.

[tipstir]

Again these are beta firmware still going to have bugs. Coding still going on by the engineers so you may or may not have issues but beta still a bump or two. 1.11 is were most users are at now.

[Lycan]

Still, give it a shot and give us feed back.

[steveng57]

Does anyone know if this has been fixed with version 1.21?  my experience with 1.20 was pretty bad and don't want a repeat of that...

[DoctorJest]

Following up on this thread --

I just yesterday came across this.  I'd been trying to figure out what had happened to our printer's network response time for months -- unfortunately the firmware upgrade happened at the same time as a lot of other changes, including a few changes to settings, and so I never suspected the DIR-655 as the culprit (and when going back to factory default settings didn't fix the problem, I assumed it was Vista being stupid). 

However, now that I've downgraded to the 1.11 firmware again, the printer responds as quickly over the network as it does on the machine it's directly plugged into.  Prior to downgrading, it took several minutes to open up the print settings window, and several more to actually print the document.  Nothing else was affected -- file sharing with the print server, for example, was lightning fast.

I was running the latest firmware prior to this; and I had tried going through every set of options in the router and changing them, to see if I had changed a setting that could affect the printer speed.  None of the changes helped -- I'm still hoping that D-Link will fix this issue in their next release, but seeing now that they didn't address it between September 01st and the later release of 1.21 doesn't exactly fill me with confidence or optimism.