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[cshell]

Hello all,

I setup my new DIR-655 router last night. Only took a couple of minutes to get it running. I noticed last night that the Window 7 connection speed was only 65 Mbps but I figured I would check it out this morning. We this morning the connection speed was up to 135 Mbps and 120 Mbps on a system down in the basement. Much better. Anyway I found that I wasn't able to see the wireless clients listed in the Status/Wireless selection of the D-Link configuration screen. I saw them last night, but this morning the browser just kept loading - the page displayed but the list was empty. So I rebooted the router, now I get the list of wireless clients but I'm only getting 65 Mbps again and 58 downstairs. This PC is sitting about 10 feet from the router.

Here are the particulars:
DIR-665, Hardware version B1, Firmware version 2.00NA
802.11 Mode: Mixed 802.11n & 802.11g
Channel: I've tried a few, now set to Auto
Transmission Rate: Best
Channel Width: Auto 20/40 MHz
Security Mode: WPA-Personal
WPA Mode: WPA2 Only
Cipher Type: AES

Interestingly the client list... Hey! It's not working again... and guess what, I'm back to 135 Mbps!

Any ideas?
Chuck

[davevt31]

I am starting to think that the B version stands for BETA.

[thecreator]

Hello all,

I setup my new DIR-655 router last night. Only took a couple of minutes to get it running. I noticed last night that the Window 7 connection speed was only 65 Mbps but I figured I would check it out this morning. We this morning the connection speed was up to 135 Mbps and 120 Mbps on a system down in the basement. Much better. Anyway I found that I wasn't able to see the wireless clients listed in the Status/Wireless selection of the D-Link configuration screen. I saw them last night, but this morning the browser just kept loading - the page displayed but the list was empty. So I rebooted the router, now I get the list of wireless clients but I'm only getting 65 Mbps again and 58 downstairs. This PC is sitting about 10 feet from the router.

Here are the particulars:
DIR-665, Hardware version B1, Firmware version 2.00NA
802.11 Mode: Mixed 802.11n & 802.11g
Channel: I've tried a few, now set to Auto
Transmission Rate: Best
Channel Width: Auto 20/40 MHz
Security Mode: WPA-Personal
WPA Mode: WPA2 Only
Cipher Type: AES

Interestingly the client list... Hey! It's not working again... and guess what, I'm back to 135 Mbps!

Any ideas?
Chuck

Hi Chuck,

The Transmission Channel, changes while in Auto. The lower channel number, gives you the slowest speed, while Channel 11, gives you the highest speed available, but speed does change, moment by moment on any channel. It is not a constant.

[kthaddock]

The lower channel number, gives you the slowest speed, while Channel 11, gives you the highest speed available

What is this nonsens ! Channel has nothing to do with speed ! Use channel 1-6-11 for best throughput.
Don't use autochannel, use WPA2+AES 40MHz channel. Look at your wifi adapter they must use mimo 2+2 to get 270Mbps speed and update driver from VENDOR !

http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=616.0

[cshell]

I was wondering about the channel vs speed thing, I hadn't heard that before. Right now though I would be happy getting a steady connection greater than 100 Mbps.

It seems that I have to restart the router every so often to reestablish a connection over 65 Mbps. Is there something magic (opps there goes my 135 Mbps connection to 65 Mbps) anyway is there something magic about that 65 Mbps connection? I had tried a Linksys router and could only get 65 Mbps. (Linksys support tried to sell me a higher end router as the solution.) I have two PCs with 802.11n and as far as I can tell they both loose the high speed connection about the same time. I've I have a couple of Squeezebox systems that are running G but that's about it. Oh, my phone runs N. Which brings up another interesting thing. On my phone I can see neighbor's networks, but not on the PCs.

[thecreator]

What is this nonsens ! Channel has nothing to do with speed ! Use channel 1-6-11 for best throughput.
Don't use autochannel, use WPA2+AES 40MHz channel. Look at your wifi adapter they must use mimo 2+2 to get 270Mbps speed and update driver from VENDOR !

Hi kthaddock,

I don't know what you have been smoking that hampers your memory, but using Firmware 1.21 Transmission Width, must be set to Auto 20/40 MHz for 300 Mhz connections. There is only two choices for Transmission Width: 1. 20 MHz and 2. Auto 20/40 MHz.

I took the time and experimented with the all available Channels one by one. At my location, 1 was the slowest and 11 was the fastest.

i use a matching Wireless Ethernet Adapter (DWA-552).

[thecreator]

I was wondering about the channel vs speed thing, I hadn't heard that before. Right now though I would be happy getting a steady connection greater than 100 Mbps.

It seems that I have to restart the router every so often to reestablish a connection over 65 Mbps. Is there something magic (opps there goes my 135 Mbps connection to 65 Mbps) anyway is there something magic about that 65 Mbps connection? I had tried a Linksys router and could only get 65 Mbps. (Linksys support tried to sell me a higher end router as the solution.) I have two PCs with 802.11n and as far as I can tell they both loose the high speed connection about the same time. I've I have a couple of Squeezebox systems that are running G but that's about it. Oh, my phone runs N. Which brings up another interesting thing. On my phone I can see neighbor's networks, but not on the PCs.

Hi Chuck,

How are you two PCs connecting to the D-Link Router? By Ethernet Cable or Wirelessly?
If by Ethernet Cable, what is the Brand and Model Number for the motherboard?
If Wireless, what is the Wireless Adapter being used? Brand and Model Number?

[cshell]

How are you two PCs connecting to the D-Link Router? By Ethernet Cable or Wirelessly?
If by Ethernet Cable, what is the Brand and Model Number for the motherboard?
If Wireless, what is the Wireless Adapter being used? Brand and Model Number?

I'm using wireless. One the one system, which is only about 10 ft from the router, I'm using an Asus PCE-N13. I was kind of disturbed to find that it is not listed on the Asus support site. I believe that I do have the latest driver though.

The other, which is located 2 floors down in the basement, is a generic number - Rosewill RNX-N150PCx. I got this to replace a dead G card, but it seems pretty good. It only supports 150 Mbps, and I have seen it right up there while the Asus is only hitting 135 Mbps.

I ran the Rosewill with the Asus system powered down and after an hour or so it had dropped to 65. I've not tried the other way around yet.

I am looking at replacing the Asus card with a D-Link DWA-556. I can only assume that is supports 300 Mbps, the specs don't mention it.

[thecreator]

I'm using wireless. One the one system, which is only about 10 ft from the router, I'm using an Asus PCE-N13. I was kind of disturbed to find that it is not listed on the Asus support site. I believe that I do have the latest driver though.

The other, which is located 2 floors down in the basement, is a generic number - Rosewill RNX-N150PCx. I got this to replace a dead G card, but it seems pretty good. It only supports 150 Mbps, and I have seen it right up there while the Asus is only hitting 135 Mbps.

I ran the Rosewill with the Asus system powered down and after an hour or so it had dropped to 65. I've not tried the other way around yet.

I am looking at replacing the Asus card with a D-Link DWA-556. I can only assume that is supports 300 Mbps, the specs don't mention it.

Hi Chuck,

If both motherboards, have an open PCI, use the D-Link DWA-552 Wireless Adapter Card. It is a match for the D-Link DIR-655 Router.

The D-Link DWA-556 Wireless Adapter Card is for the PCI-e Slots. It is also a match. You can get a 300 Mbps connection from the computer, when viewed from the computer. If viewed from the Router, it changes from moment to moment.

[cshell]

Creator,

I could understand using the D-Link cards to get top end speeds, but I would think I should be able to get connections of at least around a 100 Mbps with any N cards. I can't change the card in my notebook or on my phone. I did this because I want to get a Roku box, but I can't change the card in that.

I don't know why, but something is knocking my network down to 65 Mbps. I played with it all day today, and it will loose the connection speed with any one system connected. Sometime it will be ok for an hour or more, but it will drop the high speed connection.

I've looked at the logs and don't see anything at all happening when the connection speed drops. I haven't tried the debug logs yet, but I'm tired of playing with it right now. Cripes, maybe I should put the energy into wiring this place for ethernet.

Thanks

[thecreator]

Hi Chuck,

What Firewalls are you using on the affected computers, besides the XP Firewall or 7 Firewall?

Look at the logs for the Firewalls and see if it is blocking parts of your Home Network.

[Xegony]

Hello all,

I setup my new DIR-655 router last night. Only took a couple of minutes to get it running. I noticed last night that the Window 7 connection speed was only 65 Mbps but I figured I would check it out this morning. We this morning the connection speed was up to 135 Mbps and 120 Mbps on a system down in the basement. Much better. Anyway I found that I wasn't able to see the wireless clients listed in the Status/Wireless selection of the D-Link configuration screen. I saw them last night, but this morning the browser just kept loading - the page displayed but the list was empty. So I rebooted the router, now I get the list of wireless clients but I'm only getting 65 Mbps again and 58 downstairs. This PC is sitting about 10 feet from the router.

Here are the particulars:
DIR-665, Hardware version B1, Firmware version 2.00NA
802.11 Mode: Mixed 802.11n & 802.11g
Channel: I've tried a few, now set to Auto
Transmission Rate: Best
Channel Width: Auto 20/40 MHz
Security Mode: WPA-Personal
WPA Mode: WPA2 Only
Cipher Type: AES

Interestingly the client list... Hey! It's not working again... and guess what, I'm back to 135 Mbps!

Any ideas?
Chuck

hi ,i switched from dir655 rev Ax to B1 recently, just wonderring if you get that
"Oops!   
The page you requested is not available. "

 page from your router?

[cshell]

I'm just using the Win7 firewall on both systems and they are set up as 'Home Networks'. As I understand that is the most open setting. I haven't played with anything today and one PC, the one closest to the router has been connected at 135 Mbps all day... at least as far as I know. The other one is still at 65, but this is much different than it has been over the last couple of days. (Oh, I just remembered the 135 system still has the ethernet connected too. I wonder if that has anything to do with it.) Anyway, I'll see...


Xegony, see my response in your other post.

[thecreator]

I'm just using the Win7 firewall on both systems and they are set up as 'Home Networks'. As I understand that is the most open setting. I haven't played with anything today and one PC, the one closest to the router has been connected at 135 Mbps all day... at least as far as I know. The other one is still at 65, but this is much different than it has been over the last couple of days. (Oh, I just remembered the 135 system still has the ethernet connected too. I wonder if that has anything to do with it.) Anyway, I'll see...


Xegony, see my response in your other post.

Hi Chuck,

If you have both Ethernet Cable plugged in and Wireless going, choose one and disconnect the other and reboot the computer.

[cshell]

I had just left the cable plugged it last night after I moved some home video over to backup. It wasn't plugged in before. I normally use the ethernet on this system since it is close to the router, but have been using it to test the 11n.

Thanks.