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[FurryNutz]

It happens man. Sounds like the DAP is a good upgrade fix for the player and once it's on the 5Ghz band, you should see any streaming issues. Just be aware the the 5Ghz band is susceptible to walls and doors and things in between. It's just that the frequency is so high, anything and interfere with the signal. Why is best to use 5GHz in Line of Sight. Just the nature of the beast as all routers with 5Ghz has this effect. Use it say next room away should work well. Keep us posted.

[grandforker]

Yeah, the big problem all along with using the 5Ghz band is that my router is in the basement and the BD player is on the main floor. My plan is to run a cable from the player down to the basement and plug in the DAP there. The DAP and the router would then be about 15 feet apart on the same level with one wall separating them. I'm hoping that will work.

[FurryNutz]

Ya that should be ok. Keep us posted man. 

[Patrick533]

It seems sort of dumb to have bought a Blu-Ray player with wireless capability, and then not use that feature. On the other hand, it seems sort of dumb to have a router with dual-band capability and use just one band. Let's just say that I probably could have done a better job of thinking this through. 

I'll let you know how it goes with the DAP-1522 as a 5GHz wireless bridge.

A couple of things that may help, WPA2 is faster then WPA. The AES setting is good. Found this out the hard way. 20 Mhz channels overlap, so if you have a close neighbor using channel 1 and another using 11, the choice for you should be 6, I know they say stay away from 6 because that is where routers default, but if it is open, use it. Channel wise you want to be as far away from the other guy as possible.

I have used mine for HD video (1080P) on 2.4Ghz, 5 Ghz and wired, all work just fine. My speed is 20 x 1 and I share it with 3 other people. If I would have NOT been close enough for Hardwire, I would have went with 5 Ghz, I live in Southren California and the 2.4 band is JAMMED. I share with 2 XBOX 360's, my wife surfing, daughter streaming music and sometimes video and NEVER have had a need for QOS. Back when my daughter was living with me, I did have 30 x 2 though. Never any buffering issues. One thing I have learned, the wireless loads up quick with Xbox 360's, a lot of small data transfers, especially when they are using VOIP to play games. So I added another AP to off load the gaming from the DIR-825. I never had a problem with G and N at the same time, but it will slow you down a little. Reading the radio specs for the router, the router puts out 3 or 4 milliwatts more in "G" mode then it does in "N". The radio chips in these are rated 14MW for "N" and 18MW for "G", not really a huge difference.   

When I first put my new DOCSIS 3 Motorola modem on my system, I was getting 60 x 60 for about 2 weeks until Time Warner Cable reset my connection speed, I know this router will cook along! The first thing I would look at is the WPA vs WPA2, that made a big difference for me, even my kid commented on it!  Hope that helps......

[FurryNutz]

Love my SB 6120 cable modem 

[Patrick533]

Love my SB 6120 cable modem 

Same one I have, thing ROCKS!

[grandforker]

I also have a Motorola SB6120 and love it.

Getting the DAP-1522 configured as a wireless bridge to work with my DIR-825 proved a bit more difficult than anticipated, but once I got everything figured out, it went great. I haven't had time to test it as much as I'd like, but based on what I've seen so far, I shouldn't be having any more trouble streaming HD video to the Sony Blu-Ray player. My streaming speed is now consistently above 10Mbps and is usually well above 15 Mbps. It's a significant and noticeable improvement.

I've had this router for more than a year and it's nice to finally be making use of the 5GHz band. Thanks for the help and advice.

[FurryNutz]

Good to hear man. Keep in touch. 

[grandforker]

One disadvantage I've noticed while using the DAP-1522 as a wireless bridge between the DIR-825 and the Sony BDP-580 Blu-Ray player is that it takes considerably longer to establish an Internet connection. I'm not sure why that is, but as long as I can stream HD video without interuption, it's merely a minor inconvenience. So far, this arrangement is working out even better than when I was using a Hawking HWREN1 range extender in 2.4GHz Wireless N mode about 10 feet away from the BD player.

[FurryNutz]

Hmm not sure why that would happen.
Are you using DHCP reserved IP addresses for everything, including the DAP?
Might ask this question in the DAP forum as well. Maybe someone has a tip or two.

Let us know.
I just go my 825 today. 

[grandforker]

Hmm not sure why that would happen.
Are you using DHCP reserved IP addresses for everything, including the DAP?

Bingo! That was the problem. I'd just left the DAP with the static IP it was assigned by default. As soon as I changed it to a permanent IP through the DIR-825, the lengthy connections time disappeared. I also watched an entire movie in HD last night with no streaming hiccups whatsoever.
 

I just go my 825 today. 

I've had my 825 for a about a year and a half, and there have been times when I questioned whether I should have bought a different router. But when I see how much our home networking needs have grown and how the 825 has enabled me to handle them all, I'm now satisfied that it was a good investment.

[FurryNutz]

Yay, good to hear man. I always use reserved IP addresses. Makes this easier to troubleshoot and devices always keep there own address.  Using routers can have a learning curve for sure. One you get the hang of it, it's not so bad. Hope it works well for ya. Will enjoy mine I got yesterday. 

[grandforker]

If you find a DIR-825 setup that works particularly well, please let us know.

[FurryNutz]

I will, so far I just set up the Internet and networking like it's currently on my DGL-4500. I was able to add my xbox and game some last night. Added QoS rule for the xbox and 2 PCs. I turned off Protected WiFi and Short GI. uPnP and DNS relay is enabled. Advanced DNS Services are disabled. Manual DNS IP addresses are filled in under Setup/Internet/Manual. Set Firewall to Endpoint Independent for both TCP and UDP. Wireless is set for Single G on 2.4 and Single N on 5Ghz. I only use iphones and an LT on the WiFi mainly. Everything else is wired. I've got to test out Netflix on the Xbox and Boxee next and stream from my server. Will post more.