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[barich]

I have a DIR-655.  It's fast, and the QoS and WISH features are great.  But, I have had issues with numerous firmware releases.  My router shipped with firmware 1.04.  I tried to upgrade to both 1.05 and 1.10 when they were released, but the router was unable to get an IP address from my cable modem with either of those two releases, so I had to downgrade back to 1.04 each time.  This was fixed in 1.11, which I was finally able to upgrade to and which worked great.  However, firmware 1.20 and 1.21 introduced some new features that I'd like - other uses for the USB port, and wireless guest zone - so I tried to upgrade to those.  With either firmware, LAN printing to a shared printer on my Vista x64 PC is unusably slow.  File sharing still works fine, though, and downgrading the firmware back to 1.11 fixes the problem.

So, since I got my DIR-655, there have only been two out of 6 firmware releases that haven't contained showstopping bugs that have made the router entirely unusable for me.  As it is, I am still without the new features that I'd like to have, because the LAN printing issue was introduced in 1.20 and not fixed in 1.21 (even the latest build 8 without SecureSpot).

I'm still happy with the router in general, because with firmware 1.11 it does everything it was advertised to do and does it well.  But it's a pain to install a new firmware, restore all of my settings manually (I don't bother saving the settings to a file and restoring them from there, because that hardly ever seems to work properly), find out that it doesn't work right, and spend even more time reverting the firmware and the settings to the previous ones.  So it would be nice if the next version of the firmware could fix the LAN printing problem without making the router catch on fire or something.

[John]

I agree, the firmware has a way's to go.  I guess we either grin and bear it or bail out.

[Lycan]

I run 1.21 with absolutely no problem, but I also just leave my system alone and let it run, I use UPnP for everything and keep the port forwards to a minimum. I have several PC's and 3 XboXs and I have NO problem with any of them getting online or gaming. In fact I can have my BT machine downloading things all day and still have all 3 xboxs playing Left4dead at the same time. Granted I have a 25/2 pipe but BT is pretty intensive.

The trick is to find a firmware that works for you and stick with it.
The best thing about the 655 is you can roll back if you don't like the code.

[EddieZ]

Some wireless devices (like my Momento wireless photo frame) seem to disturb the router/wireless link. Since I connected the frame last week, I've been seeing quite a few wireless restarts. No settings changed in the router except accepting the MAC and giving it a reserved IP.

[John]

As I understand it since I am using F/W V1.21 and if I roll back to F/W V1.11 I will use the share port option. Is that correct???  One of the reasons I bought the 655 was for the shareport. If I am wrong please let me know. Thanks.

[arod]

The shareport feature is not available in F/W 1.11

[barich]

The trick is to find a firmware that works for you and stick with it.
The best thing about the 655 is you can roll back if you don't like the code.

Which is fine - firmware 1.11 is working great for me - but it would be nice to have access to the new features that were introduced in 1.20, and it's been 4 months and another point release and the problem is still there.