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[FurryNutz]

I don't think the 30/30/30 works on these routers. It's possible.
Usually for FW updates or reloads I use the following:
Factory reset using the routers UI.
Upload the FW package.
Factory reset once more from the routers UI.
Don't load any prior saved config files till after testing.

I would go back and load the previous FW version. See if it works on there. If it does, remember what you did in the verification. Then reload the latest and check again. If it doesn't work. Let us know. I'll see if I can put a poker in someone ear on this.

What OS is loaded on the PC that your using? I presume thats set up to auto obtain addressing?

[Patrick533]

Yes, that is how I could tell it was working. The DIR-825 would assign a IPV6 address under 2.03NA(automatically) and NOT under 2.05NA, no settings were changed on the PC, still to this day.

2 PC's were used for testing, Windows 7, 64 bit and Windows ME, 32 bit, both with IPV6 installed.

For browsers when I was getting a "404, page not found" error on the DIR-825, I tried Firefox, IE 8/9 and Chrome. They would load ALL pages from the DIR-825, except IPV6 setup, clicking on IPV6 setup would always give a "page not found error" with firmware 2.05NA, but NO problems with firmware 2.03NA. In the above posts, 1 person confirmed the page would NOT load for him either.

2 different network cards, 1 D-link PCI express (win 7 PC) and 1 Intel on the ME machine. I even tried turning the speed down from Gigabit to 100Mbps and even 10Mbps on both machines. Still had problems with 2.05NA. The wire distance is very short for the 2 machines and everything works great under 2.03NA, even with 100' runs and gigabit speeds on other machines besides for my test machines.

I will try doing full resets before and after the firmware install this weekend and see if it works, even though after having to downgrade my old Dir-655 to get it to work, I am 99% sure that I did that for the Dir-825. The only thing I had NOT done was the 30/30/30 thing.

Resetting all of the settings from scratch in the DIR-825 is not a problem, I can do most of it from memory! 

Too bad, the DIR-825 is some nice hardware, but has nowhere near the range of the DIR-655, so I also have to run a WAP54G on a 100' cable to get coverage on the otherside of my house. The DIR-655 covered this by itself. If Actiontec comes out with an "N" router, IPV6 and Gigabit ethernet...... I will be in heaven, they too have good range like the DIR-655 did!

I will try Saturday, but my hopes have kind of diminished if the 30/30/30 thing don't work for D-link routers.

[FurryNutz]

Ok, keep us posted. This could be and issue with FW.
IPv6 and Windows ME? Really? 

[Patrick533]

OOOOOPPPPPSSSSSS! Sorry, meant XP PRO (32 bit). But I still have boxes from DOS 6.22 through Windows 7 for software compatability (mainly Motorola RSS software). Windows 7 compatability mode is a JOKE!

[FurryNutz]

Darn I was hoping ME would support IPv6, Id go back to use that. Hehe 

[Patrick533]

Success! The 30/30/30 method does work on the B1 version of this router. It appears to wipe the old firmware and go into a firmware loader mode. From the screen after a 30/30/30 reset, all you can do is upload firmware to the router, no passwords or pretty screen, just a “browse” file button and a “upload” file button and some basic warnings and instructions. No internet access, so you need to already have the firmware on your machine before doing the 30/30/30 reset. I did NOT try to restart the router, I just uploaded the 2.05NA firmware(both files!).

It works, no major signal increase on WiFi, but I have NOT tried 5Ghz yet, only 2.4Ghz wireless. DHCP for IPV4 and 6 are PERFECT, I did a brief security test, closed tight! The Diplexer for dual bands must be attenuating the signal or the radios just don’t pump out as much power as the DIR-655. Oh well, I think this one is still a keeper! Routing to my server on the 1Gbps back bone is solid, as it was before the upgrade.

So after a full day 3 months ago, and failure! All that was needed was a solid reset. Total time today, including reconnecting the wireless clients, 90 minutes.

I will beat it to death, if I find any problems, I will repost here!

[FurryNutz]

Good to hear you got it working man. Good info.

Will keep this in mind. Let us know how works out for you.
Now get it all configured then save of the config to file and keep it safe. 

[bigblugone]

Hello all non D-Link, kind people, since we all know D-Link employees don't come to this forum  . I wish I could use 2.05NA, but if it isn't one thing then it's another. First it was the issue that has been around since 2.03 where, what I found out later to be, the QoS was limiting my upload speed to 1024mb. I happened across a mention here one night about the QoS setting the default to 1024mb which is why I wasn't getting the 3mb upload from my ISP. I tried 2.05NA again and manually set the upload to 4096mb and all was well. Oh, this is the B1 version and it came with 2.02NA.

Then along comes the next problem that I haven't ran across a fix for yet. I have a D-Link DNS-323. I don't keep it on all the time. The first time I tried to use it after updating to 2.05, the NAS Easy Search couldn't see it. It worked fine with 2.02. Why does D-Link break stuff when they are suppose to be improving it? I'm guessing it is another default setting that changed somewhere between 2.02 and 2.05 but I don't know what it is. Does anyone have an idea? I fully understand the basic setup of the router. I was hoping to learn about the more advanced features this router is suppose to have but if D-Link can't even get their own hardware to work together, then I don't feel like messing with other stuff.

I reset the router to its defaults after the 2.05 upgrade and then manually setup the wireless settings and network settings. I fixed the QoS for the upload speed issue. I forwarded the couple of ports that needed it and I turned off that stupid Captcha and set the admin password. That's it. The NAS is nowhere to be seen. I downgrade to 2.02 again and manually set everything up, and the Easy Search Utility for the NAS finds it immediately.

Any help would be appreciated. D-Link is no help at all. I reported the upload speed issue when they released 2.03. They had me doing all kinds of useless crap that didn't do anything but aggravate me. I then find the fix by accident on the upload speed and told support about it and asked them to sticky it in the forums so people can find it easily. We can all see how far that went. I have quite a bit of money invested in their hardware and now I see what I have to look forward to. I wonder if they are about to fold the business? As far as I can see, 2.02 is the last stable release unless you fully understand everything about every feature on this router.

Anyway, I would like to use 2.05 so I can reserve MAC addresses that don't start with 00. That's another thing I happened across. Again any help would be appreciated.

[FurryNutz]

Patrick, What FW version did you load on your router after you go the 30/30/30 process to work? Just curious here. An 825 is arriving this week and hope to start working with his and seeing if IPv6 will work for me. Might get a hold of you on advise for that if you don't mind. 

Success! The 30/30/30 method does work on the B1 version of this router. It appears to wipe the old firmware and go into a firmware loader mode. From the screen after a 30/30/30 reset, all you can do is upload firmware to the router, no passwords or pretty screen, just a “browse” file button and a “upload” file button and some basic warnings and instructions. No internet access, so you need to already have the firmware on your machine before doing the 30/30/30 reset. I did NOT try to restart the router, I just uploaded the 2.05NA firmware(both files!).

It works, no major signal increase on WiFi, but I have NOT tried 5Ghz yet, only 2.4Ghz wireless. DHCP for IPV4 and 6 are PERFECT, I did a brief security test, closed tight! The Diplexer for dual bands must be attenuating the signal or the radios just don’t pump out as much power as the DIR-655. Oh well, I think this one is still a keeper! Routing to my server on the 1Gbps back bone is solid, as it was before the upgrade.

So after a full day 3 months ago, and failure! All that was needed was a solid reset. Total time today, including reconnecting the wireless clients, 90 minutes.

I will beat it to death, if I find any problems, I will repost here!

[Patrick533]

I am using 2.05NA, it has been rock solid for almost a week so far. Just make sure that you either disable QOS or enter the correct number for the service you buy in the upload speed under QOS. For whatever reason, their calculation of my upload speed is never correct, dating back to my DIR-655. I downgraded to 20x1 with TWC and for whatever reason firmware 2.05NA seen that as 384K to their speedtest site, once the router was reset to 1Mbps, everything is fine. Even my HTC Inspire is downloading through this router at 18.3 x 1, with the old firmware I was getting 6-8 x 1 with the HTC. Big improvement!

I did some radio comparison over the weekend, it does seem like 2.05 NA is putting out a little better signal. I compared it to a WAP54G ver3 last weekend and it is almost the same signal strength even with the little 2.4/5.0 GHZ antennas it is supplied with. I tried some bigger/higher gain antennas on 2.4Ghz with marginal results. Even my kids Xbox can now see the router with 2-3 out of 4 bars and he could NOT see it before, nothing has changed but the firmware.

I am a real noob to IPV6, TWC has not turned it on yet, but all of my hardware is ready to go. I will help if I can. When I get time, I might do some tuneling!
 

[FurryNutz]

Plan on it. Will get it in this week and check it out. will be nice to broadcast 2.4 and 5Ghz at the same time. Will see how gaming is too. 

Ya, took a class on IPv6 a few years back. Interesting. Not the easiest to deal with. I really hope they make the UI and using it a bit easier for end users. Ive got a 2008 server at home I need to bring up and have it start broadcasting it. I set up a 2003 years back to at work one time. Just so we could get services to test HW on. Hoping the 825 can provide the IPv6 services for the LAN. Eventually my ISP will turn IPv6 on..probably not for a few years I presume. 

[Patrick533]

Plan on it. Will get it in this week and check it out. will be nice to broadcast 2.4 and 5Ghz at the same time. Will see how gaming is too. 

Ya, took a class on IPv6 a few years back. Interesting. Not the easiest to deal with. I really hope they make the UI and using it a bit easier for end users. Ive got a 2008 server at home I need to bring up and have it start broadcasting it. I set up a 2003 years back to at work one time. Just so we could get services to test HW on. Hoping the 825 can provide the IPv6 services for the LAN. Eventually my ISP will turn IPv6 on..probably not for a few years I presume. 

The DIR-825 does have an IPV6 DHCP and was easy to setup, I know my PC and my server both have IPV6 addresses from the DIR-825, but I don't know which they are using since both IPV4 and IPV6 are installed on the same machines. I am figuring the DIR-825 will turn into a 4to6 box if Time Warner ever turns on IPV6 (My Docsis 3 modem is IPV6 ready). I did play with it via proxy for a while, there are a couple of people out there that you can set up a IPV6 tunnel with, the DIR-825 does support that. Dual band is nice, in LA, 2.4 Ghz is jammed. I even switched my telephones to 5Ghz, I have 2 telephone lines and 8 handsets, so it was NOT cheap, but in LA it was well worth it! My router and phones did NOT have a problem, range was good and they played nice together. When I do a scan from a low level antenna on 2.4, there are no fewer then 10 routers on 2.4Ghz in my neighborhood, none on 5Ghz (at least that I can see0. 10 years ago there was 1 router in my neighborhood. I would almost be afraid to do a high level scan with a good antenna fed by hard line! I am real happy with this router, as I posted in another thread, when I first installed my new Motorola DOCSIS 3 modem I was getting 60 x 60 for the first couple of weeks, I must have been the first one with this modem on the system because it was wide open, I don't think that they had the proper provisioning setup yet, they do now, because I am down to 20 x 1! I hate it when that happens

[ingber]

I set up a tunnel with tunnelbroker and got the router to ping and ping6 just fine.  However, my Win7 PC cannot use ipv6 yet.  As I posted on
http://myserverissick.com/2010/10/use-a-d-link-dir-825-to-automatically-ipv6-your-network/#comment-142

I can ping ipv6 sites from the router, but not from Windows which looks like it is using Win7 Teredo.

I suspect that I have to run something like
netsh interface teredo set state disabled
netsh interface ipv6 add v6v4tunnel IP6Tunnel ipv4-1 ipv4-2
netsh interface ipv6 add address IP6Tunnel ipv6::2
netsh interface ipv6 add route ::/0 IP6Tunnel ipv6::1
where the ip addresses were given by tunnelbroker when I set up my tunnel.

Note:  Under my Win7 Ultimate, Teredo was set up by default, but this still is not a true ipv6 connection.  For example, I could not get to http://ipv6.google.com, and now I still can't get there.   Under my Linode VPS, which has a true ipv6 connection, I can get to that site just fine.

I have already set OpenDNS ipv6 DNS
2620:0:ccc::2
2620:0:ccd::2
on all ipv6 Win7 PCs and router, and so shouldn't the tunnel through the router be all that is necessary?

I’m not sure what else running netsh might do, so I am waiting to get more info from someone more knowledgeable.

I have some reasons for not simply playing with netsh:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118071

I assume that, with more than 1 PC on the router, the local address (I have static private ipv4 addresses for all PC's) there should be no problem with multiple PCs using the same tunnel?

Lester

[djquinones]

Can somebody give me an idea of how long the process takes?  I attempted to upgrade from 2.02 to 2.05 and the router never really reset; the D-Link logo stayed lit blue but that was it for several (at least 10) minutes.  I ended up unplugging it and plugging it back in, which resulted in the power light slowly flashing orange.  I was finally able to reload the old firmware via some variation of the 30/30/30 method and instructions at http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/D-Link_DIR-825#RETURNING_TO_STOCK_FIRMWARE.  I have yet to try updating again since this first time scarred me pretty bad.  Back to my question, how long should the update process take?  Thanks.

[FurryNutz]

The entire process shouldn't take more than 5-10 minutes. There is 2 files that are numbered 1 and 2. You have to start with 1 then apply 2. I think the process should only take about 2 mins for the first file, maybe less.
Be sure you are wired to the router. Not wireless.

Forgot to mention, when doing FW updates, do the following:
Factory reset the router first.
Update using the .bin files.
Factory reset once more.
Configure router.