Thanks for your help, I will try to be as precise as I can to answer your questions.
See also my answer below in the quote box:
Hi Alezis,
> Can you point the link to the firmware upgrade procedure ?
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=36970.msg118928#msg118928
Thanks for the link. I did follow pretty much what is in there. I have reset the router when it got out of the brand new sealed box by holding the reset button.
> I put my computer into static adress at 192.168.0.100, 255.255.255.0 and 192.168.0.1 standards.
You don't place your computer into a Static Address, you do that on the Router, not the computer.
Where are you entering 255.255.255.0? I see no place to do that.
I had put a static adress in my computer so the computer gives the adress to the router. I must tell you that I have put the DHCP range from .101-.199 so making my pc "force" to take .100 adress. I did that because after applying some changes, sometime, my computer did not seem to reconnect anymore. I was ending up with a 169.xxx.xxx.xxx adress. That is why I did try the static ip on my computer. It seems to work better but when all this config would end, I would put back everything in dhcp. I did not use the reservation list but rather use the pc to take an adress outside the dhcp range.
You can enter the subnet mask 255.255.255.0 in setup, network setting and router settings. There you can change ip router adress (192.168.0.1) and subnet mask (255.255.255.0).
I though it had something to do with the router updating the wrong adress to the dyndns service.
> Can someone help me with this wrong dyndns adress update ?
Why aren't you using https://www.dlinkddns.com/login ?
Because I pay for the service because I have more than one account and they are all managed in the same account. Was easyer for me and I've been using dyndns for a really long time. Changing all adress of every one to a new dns server would be really complicated for me to do.
Did you unzip the Downloaded firmware?
Of course, I update the .bin file and not the .rar/.zip file.
Now today, I have replaced the dir655 v2.00 that craped by another one also v2.00 but I did not risk to update the firmware at this moment. I still had to remove this and put a temporary router instead because now all the windows PC cannot get on the network over wifi as when it has fishing asking for the key, another window open and ask for a user neme and password to join the network... I never saw that before... when it was wired, no problem besides dyndns...
I am using a dir655 with fw 1.21 for myself right now and I NEVER had ANY issue with this router. Never. It stays connected all the time, I never rebooted that router since 4 years now never pulled the plug and it worked flawlessly.
I use to make everybody buy a dir655 and configure it for them (even at work, I suggested that router for projects) but I started to have complaint since v1.32 where I got multiple complaint about the internet dropping. Those people have the same ISP than I have at this moment and are in home environment, not commercial.
I've got so much trouble updating the routers from 1.32 to 1.34 and even then, I still have the internet connection drops. And now, v2.00 seems better at not dropping the internet but I cannot update the dyndns and strange login page on the wifi.
It's the second dir655 v2.0 I install with dyndns and that is not working. One using PPPOE and the other one DHCP and both are doing the same thing.
I have replaced one of 655 by a 24$ Trendnet router while returning and exchange the router for a friend so he still have internet and guess what, it works like a charm... He want's to buy my trendnet "test" router instead... which I do not want to sell along my 655 with v1.21.
Anyway, I am really disapointed and friends (and their friends) are also really disapointed. It is complicated to replace and make work... way far complicated than my 4 year old 655...
I just said all that to "vent" a little because it is not what I expected from new versions and makes me work hard, cost time to get exchange and all that...
I don't understand why dlink release such fw if it does not work... which, by the way, in the release note is not talking about the dyndns issue...
Anyway, hope this helps in finding the issue because I truly beleive in dlink products... right ?