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[kmcree]

I have had the DIR-825 for a week and a half now - rev A1.  I spent the first week fighting the wireless reboots - tweaking an adjustment here and there to see if there was any help.  I finally got to my last resort and updated the firmware to 1.11NA on Friday.  I have seen around 2 or 3 2.4GHz "restarts" in the logs since then, but have not had the whole wireless network take a dump yet.  The stats do show high error rates on the 2.4GHz band and none on the 5GHz band, so maybe the router is just more error tolerant now.  These errors or restarts do not appear to have a noticeable effect on the 2.4GHz clients.  After I updated the firmare, I reset the router to factory defaults and my only changes have been to set the 2.4GHz network to "G" only and the 5GHz network to "N" only and channel width 40.  I would say that my wireless network is much more stable.  Hopefully I did not jinx myself with that statement.

My wireless issue could be coming from my Rocketfish surround speaker adapter as it operates on the 2.4GHz band.  However, I tested extensively with this device off prior to the firmware upgrade and it did not reduce the restarts or disconnects.  BTW, I have had this for a couple years and it did not appear to cause problems with my prior DLink router, the DI-634M. The Rocketfish has been on since the firmware upgrade.

My general environment consists of - Uniden 5.8GHz phones, two other distant neighboring wireless networks - on non-conflicting channels, an XBox360 on a DAP-1522 (5GHz N), TiVo Series 2 with Wireless g adapter, 2 wireless g desktops, 2 wireless G laptops, and directly wired to the 825 - a desktop, HP printer, and HP mediaserver.

I still have a couple weeks to decide to keep the 825 or revert back to the ol'e trusty 634M, so I will keep monitoring closely.

******Update
Wireless reboots no longer seem to be a problem, but it appears that I have the 1.11 router lockup problem.  I disabled DNS relay to see if that helps this issue, but will need at least 3 days to see if it works based on the frequency of the problem.