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[FurryNutz]

Thanks for the info Patrick. Hoping that his router is ok too. Any additional thoughts on that?

[TrondS]

The laptops are different brands, and has different WLAN cards. My laptop only supports 2.4Ghz, the other one both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz. My laptop (a HP) has the option of upgrading the WLAN card, but the upgrade has 3 antennas, and the laptop only 2, so I'm not sure how that's going to affect the performance. The router is situated at the loft, but there are no walls blocking the loft and our downstairs living room where the laptops are. The thumb drives would have no trouble covering the range I'm sure.

The Netgear N900 is in the mail, and will probably show up here on Friday, or Saturday, so we'll see how that goes.

With regards to the beta firmware mentioned earlier, has this proven stable, and do I have the option of downgrading to 2.05, or even 2.01?

[FurryNutz]

Where did you get the 2.05EU firmware form?
There a specific web site?

I looked that EU site under UK and only see 2.01EU thats the latest.
Theres no notes regarding the prevention of downgrading once pasted a certain version so I think you could down grade ok, unless it's programmed into what you have now and you wont' find out till you try.

Didn't you say you were in Sweden or am I thinking of someone else? So many people on here. 

[TrondS]

Can't remember where I found that one, maybe 2.01EU is the latest official? I think I used the web interface on the router, and that linked me to 2.05EU.

Anyway, I'm in Norway, not in Sweden. Just checked with WiFi analyser on my Android, and my net is peaking around -50dB on channel 11. There are a few week ones trying to access channel 11 also, but they are probably too far away.

I have the router set on 2.4Ghz, 20/40 auto, fixed on channel 11, N and G only, and the 5 Ghz is disabled since none of my clients run on that anyway.

Once the wife's in bed, I'll do a factory reset and see where that brings me.

[FurryNutz]

Ok, Even the Norwegian site doesn't mention any 2.05 FW. Only 2.01.
Might give downgrading a go to 2.01.
Let us know what you find after a factory reset.

[TrondS]

The filename of the update is DIR825B1_FW205EUB08, and I found it through one of the other forum threads.

[Patrick533]

Thanks for the info Patrick. Hoping that his router is ok too. Any additional thoughts on that?

He has a new router coming, can't hurt to try it and see if the Dir-825 is the culprit. Being almost certain the laptops depending on how old they are have an unknown version of draft "N" in them. Letting the OS power down the WiFi adapter is a setting I always turn off in my windows setting for the WiFi adapter, that causes some problems like you are seeing sometimes too.

The Netgear router that you mentioned I just pulled out of a family members house and replaced it with a D-Link, it would NOT work with their Kindle, it worked with Ipods, Androids, Laptops, you name it, just not the Kindle. Since I put the D-link in, no problems. This was just a couple of weeks back, still to this day, I have no clue why the Netgear would not work with the Kindle.

Some times there are hardware differences that even an engineer can't explain, that is why I bought the little dongles, one works, they all work. I bought like 8 of them(only needed 5), I was affraid they would come out with a new rev and screw everything up with my "if one works they all work" theroy.

I wanted to use channel 13 on my network at home, so I went out and looked for EU software for the Dir-825, I do believe that 2.05EU is the version that went from draft "N" to the new 802.11N, dont remember where I found it, but it was legit and changed some other things for EU compliance too that I was not happy about, so I did not do the switch and stuck with US 2.06.

[FurryNutz]

Hmm B08, means I believe it's a beta version and thus not an actual release. I think.  I generally follow whats posted officially on the DLink web site, unless your a shade tree engineer like some of on on here then thats ok too. Just has pit falls.

I would recommend and try to go back to 2.01EU. Follow the update process in the FW update sticky on here and see. If you get a message that says, you can't go back or it's the wrong version, stop there and don't do anything else. Probably can't do much after that.

When did you do the update to 2.05? If you remember. Do you remember having these issues before you updated?

Let us know.

[TrondS]

The firmware update was done early in this thread, as a response to the fact that I didn't get the actual 70/10 speeds as my modem reported when bypassing the DIR-825. I did a firmware update just before I did a factory reset, and after that I must admit that WLAN has acted weird, mostly on the HP using the Ralink WLAN. The Lenovo has been acting normal afaik.

I'll try to go back to 2.01EU and see what that brings in terms of modem speed, and if WLAN is back to normal again.

[Patrick533]

I had a LOT of problems going to 2.05US, I actually did the 30/30/30 thing the fifth or 6th time around and it worked much better.

I did it as a last ditch effort, but I am glad I did it, this is the best router I have ever owned to date! No one could help me. I even did resets like it says on "how to flash a new ROM sticky". No luck.

I can run a Xbox 360 game, video chat(high def), streaming video(high def netflix) and a PC game all at the same time with no issues through the router(wireless and wired).

I do have to run 2 WiFi AP's, otherwise the Xbox lags though, it is VERY packet intensive!

[Patrick533]

It is Beta and there is a newer beta it appears. I think I might go back...........

Here is the link:

http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=37247.0

[FurryNutz]

Surprised you had problems updating however I did notice 2.05 had 2 files with it. I didn't have any problems.
I've learned to use the FW update process when doing any updates listed in the sticky.

TrondS, Let us know how going back did. Patrick noticed there is a more recent Beta version for EU units. Might be worth a try here too.

I recommend not loading any saved configuration files until you test out the router and see what your speed and connections are first.

Let us know.

[Patrick533]

Surprised you had problems updating however I did notice 2.05 had 2 files with it. I didn't have any problems.
I've learned to use the FW update process when doing any updates listed in the sticky.

It was a bear, I reset it several different times, as long as I would use 2.03, everthing worked GREAT. When I would go to 2.05 becuase of the IPV6 updates, major problems. This was before you came along and there was no support. I was looking into DD-WRT when I found out the 30-30 thing brought you into the boot loader, first time was a charm, everything worked. A couple of other people had problems and sent their routers back swearing they were junk. Glad I have a hard head! I did use the sticky going from 2.05 to 2.06, no problems at all And I don't have to run a Verizon fios router to get the bandwidth throughput. Cisco/Linksys came right out and called me a liar about my 15 x 2 internet speed which was unheard of at the time except for FIOS. D-links were already doing 100Mbps with the firewall on, Linksys was doing 8-10Mbps.

[FurryNutz]

Wow, called you a liar huh? Well glad that I was able to provide some support after the fact. Glad it's all up and running now. Now I hope we can figure out Mr. Norsks issues with him. Hehe.

[Patrick533]

Wow, called you a liar huh?

Cisco called me a liar! They told me my current provider only provided 8Mbps and only FIOS had the kind of speed I claimed I had! When I E-Mailed him a copy of a speed test, the guy from Cisco told me those could be manipulated to show anything(I think I was getting 20Mbps actually and paying for 15Mbps). I was told if I was running that kind of speed that I needed to go to a commercial product(by linksys), they handed me off to Cisco. Cisco quoted me $495.00 plus they would take $50 off for my current Linksys product that I had just bought for $100(the commercial product would handle 24Mbps). Did some research on netbuilder, took the Linksys back to Best Buy, picked up a Dir-655 from Office depot and never looked back......... Cisco's customer service was almost nasty when they found out I was a EE and knew what I was talking about. They actually banned me from their support forums for calling them out on the speed issue and a wide open firewall when it was enabled.... Call me D-Link Fanboi if you want, but D-Link gave me value for my money, Cisco gave me a hard time! Tried a 2nd hand FIOS router for a while, they worked great but where short on features, the Xbox was a problem with the FIOS router too.

Good luck with getting trondS working, once you get a good firmware, these things are like toasters, you just use them!

Later!

Pat