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[timj0980985435]

After "upgrading" from firmware 1.11 to 1.21, I immediately noticed that every router web page wanted to load MSXML 5.0, according to the yellow info bar that appeared at the top of every router page in IE7 (Vista Ultimate). Allowing this had no effect; no page changes were apparent, and the yellow bar remained. Not a great start, but it was soon to get much worse, as the router proceeded to reboot itself every 1.5 minutes or so. It was a bit of a race to download and reinstall 1.11; it took two attempts to download and three attempts to reinstall, but now I'm back in business running 1.11. Any idea what's wrong with 1.21? After installing 1.21, I power-cycled the router, but no joy, and I tried resetting it to factory defaults and reinstalling the 1.21 firmware, but again, no joy. It just totally did not work for me. FWIW, I have three wired devices; my PC using a 1 Gb Intel PRO-1000 PCIe card and two HD HomeRuns.

[timj0980985435]

Forgot to mention, my DIR-655 is Revision A3.

[davevt31]

The MSXML 5.0 is annoying but do NOT allow it to install into a Vista Machine, this is what is causing the page screw ups.  Go to IE and disable the MSXML 5.0 in the Manage Add-ons dialog.  Vista comes with the 6.0 version of it and installing the 5.0 causes pages like the logs not to show up.  You just have to ignore the message bar when in the router config page.

[EddieZ]

Or just use Firefox or Chrome....

[timj0980985435]

Thanks for the replies. Any ideas about the spontaneous, periodic (interval about one and a half minutes) rebooting? Is there anything different I should do if I were to try the update again? The only thing that interests me is the reported relaxation of the "good neighbor policy". I'm curious to see if my laptop will connect at better than 130 Mbps now.

[EddieZ]

Thanks for the replies. Any ideas about the spontaneous, periodic (interval about one and a half minutes) rebooting? Is there anything different I should do if I were to try the update again? The only thing that interests me is the reported relaxation of the "good neighbor policy". I'm curious to see if my laptop will connect at better than 130 Mbps now.

If you have a Intel 4965 in tour laptop: they will only go to 130 Mbps by design

[timj0980985435]

If you have a Intel 4965 in tour laptop: they will only go to 130 Mbps by design

That's exactly what I have. The product page says, "Data rates up to 300Mbps". Not sure what's necessary to achieve that speed.

[chaicka]

That's exactly what I have. The product page says, "Data rates up to 300Mbps". Not sure what's necessary to achieve that speed.

Intel 4965 is not a true 802.11n client adapter. It requires both 2.4GHz & 5GHz channels to achieve 300mbps 802.11n speed. Thus, would just single 2.4GHz frequency channels, it is only capable to achieve 130mbps.