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[FurryNutz]

Its recommend to follow this for doing any FW updates:
FW Update Process

What was the reason for updating FW?

If your not comfortable in working withe the router configurations, I recommend that you phone contact your regional D-Link support office and ask for help and information regarding this. We find that phone contact has better immediate results over using email.
Let us know how it goes please.

    What region are you located? - USA
    Are you wired or wireless connected to the router? - Wired
    Was a Factory Reset performed before and after any firmware updates then set up from scratch? - No, but I've never touched the settings, since I know next to nothing about networking I try to keep my hands off that stuff to avoid making things worse and everything's always just worked till the firmware upgrade.  Have the factory defaults changed from 2.00 to 2.11?  Could that be whats happening since I'm still using the defaults?  I'll give that a shot and try to find a reset factory defaults button in the router web gui after this post.
    What ISP Service do you have? Cable or DSL? - Bright House, Cable.
    What ISP Modem Mfr. and model # do you have? SurfBoard SB6141
    Is ISP Modem/Service using Dynamic or Static WAN IP addressing? Uh... no idea
    What ISP Modem service link speeds UP and Down do you have? 70 MBpS Down / 6 MBpS Up

I want to hold off on making any router configuration changes if possible, because, again, I know nothing about this stuff.  I honestly felt uncomfortable just upgrading the firmware, but if you are certain these things you're asking me to do have become necessary with the new firmware to get your full download rate, I will try them.  I'd rather flash back to a firmware that doesn't need me to touch the configuration, though, if that's an option since again, I had no issues with 2.00 and my download rate.  Thank you for posting in response though, I appreciate it.

[DanTheMeek]

That fixed it, holding down the reset button for 10 seconds!  Thank you so much for the help!

(Just cause you asked, the original reason I upgraded the firmware in the first place was because I found only a couple devices in the house could be connected wirelessely to the router at the same time, but my understanding was that it was supposed to support up to 255 devices connecting to it.  When I researched what could cause that online, some link I found advised me to upgrade the firmware on the router, I looked into the firmware, saw it was out of date, and figured that even if that didn't fix the problem, was probably worth updating it since I never had and they didn't update firmwares for no reason, even if it didn't fix my problem, there were probably other issues that were fixed I didn't even know where happening.  I won't bother you guys with that issue though, as long as at least 1 of my wifi devices can cannot and my wired connects, I should be okay by just taking turns with the wifi connection)

[FurryNutz]

Glad you got it working.

You should be about to run any device on this router, wired and wireless.

I have this router and it's a solid router.

Enjoy.

[DanTheMeek]

Alas it would seem that was only a temporary fix, suddenly the stream I was watching was skipping badly so I checked my rates and my download is back at 6.2ish again -_-  Do I just need to do a factory reset on the router every hour?  Hmmm...

[FurryNutz]

I'd run thru some of the suggestions on configuration and do some testing.

I'd start with TS and QoS disabled and test...

[DanTheMeek]

The only option under QS was traffic shaping, and it was not enabled.  Went through the suggestions on configuration changes but seems like the defaults match up already with most of that stuff so not really sure what else to do there...

Another reboot got me back to full download for several hours (I tested it every 30 minutes all night last night), but when I turned on my computer again this morning now I was throttled down to 25 down... so its not even consistent on what its throttling me down to...

Upload remains unaffected.

[FurryNutz]

I'd recommend doing the following:
Using IE or FF with out any security browser add-ons and LAN wired to the router, factory reset the router, reload v2.11NA FW .bin file, factory reset once again, then set up from scratch...

I'm wondering if there is a problem between the modem and router or maybe the modem. This is usually indicative of the ISP service or ISP modem...

You don't happen to have another router on hand do you?

[DanTheMeek]

Alas, reflashing it to 11 didn't work, still can't find a 2.00 firmware to flash back to since I was running off that for years with out issue, but I managed to find a version 10 firmware, so I flashed to that, and so far so good, but even with the v11 some times after a hard reset it would work fine for hours, so the real test will probably be when I get up in the morning and run some tests then.  It sounds like johndogg might have been running off v10 before he upgraded to v11 when he started having similar issues too, so I'm hopeful v10 doesn't have whatever it is that's causing this issue, but if it does... I don't know, I guess I may have to buy another router as you say to compare results...

[FurryNutz]

Keep us posted on how it goes....

[DanTheMeek]

Looking good!  So far this morning still no download throttling, never lasted more then a few hours before it started doing it to me on v11, and never over night.  I'm going to keep running tests probably though out the rest of the week just to be cautious, but its looking extremely likely the issue was indeed introduced with v11 and thus resolved by flashing back to v10.

[FurryNutz]

Glad it's still working, I wonder if there maybe just a incompatibility issue with your ISP service and v2.11. You seem to be the only one with this issue here...I have this same router and FW. I just don't have the same ISP speed as you, 50/3 here using a SB 6180 cable modem. 

Keep us posted.

[wjfinnigan]

I upgraded from 2.07 and I'm also having random and frequent reboots. I was hoping 2.11 resolved an issue I was having with connection drops for specific devices whenever the wireless client count increases. It never stayed on long enough for me to test this particular issue.

After trying all combinations of resets and turning stuff on/off as recommended I had to roll back to 2.07 so I could get some work done. I suspect the instability may be related to an interaction between the router and the 802.11n implementation on certain devices. At least with 2.07 only some device connections were dropped instead of losing all connections when it reboots.

I think I'll just live with what I have until I'm ready to get a 802.11ac router. It's just not worth my time to mess with this any more. If I paid myself $20/hour I could easily buy an new AC router with the time I spent trying to fix this one.

I thought I would add to this.  I did a update the "Wrong" way, and then after visiting these forums did it the "Right" way.  However ever since doing this update (2.11) my router also reboots frequently.  Nothing other then the firmware has changed since the update.  Since we use VOIP Phones we notice, and it is a problem.  After posting this I'm going to roll back to 2.07 and see if that fixes it. 

To help others that may be having this issue, we have many wired and wireless devices, and use MAC filtering.  We have windows 8.1, and windows 7, and Linux machines, as well as a bunch of virtual machines, and media devices for streaming content, as well as IP security cameras.

I write custom software for a living, and consider myself a hardware guy.  I haven't been able to track this issue down despite my best efforts.  I have noticed that other routers in our network do not reset when this one does during it's hiccups.

If rolling back to 2.07 doesn't fix it I'll be back and will update this.  With the complexity of our network and mac filtering, reconfiguring from scratch is quite a time drain.

[FurryNutz]

Link>Welcome!

• What region are you located?
• Are you wired or wireless connected to the router?
• Has a Factory Reset been performed?
• Was a Factory Reset performed before and after any firmware updates then set up from scratch?

FW Update Process

• Was the router working before any firmware updates?

Internet Service Provider and Modem Configurations

• What ISP Service do you have? Cable or DSL?
• What ISP Modem Mfr. and model # do you have?
• Is ISP Modem/Service using Dynamic or Static WAN IP addressing?
• What ISP Modem service link speeds UP and Down do you have?

FW usually is not an indication of the router rebooting by itself, usually its a configuration issue or some form of interference. I have this router loaded with all the various versions of FW I've tested since and all are stable accept for v2.07 which has a couple of issues. V2.11 is stable and runs well.

Let us help you figure it out if you need...

I thought I would add to this.  I did a update the "Wrong" way, and then after visiting these forums did it the "Right" way.  However ever since doing this update (2.11) my router also reboots frequently.  Nothing other then the firmware has changed since the update.  Since we use VOIP Phones we notice, and it is a problem.  After posting this I'm going to roll back to 2.07 and see if that fixes it. 

To help others that may be having this issue, we have many wired and wireless devices, and use MAC filtering.  We have windows 8.1, and windows 7, and Linux machines, as well as a bunch of virtual machines, and media devices for streaming content, as well as IP security cameras.

I write custom software for a living, and consider myself a hardware guy.  I haven't been able to track this issue down despite my best efforts.  I have noticed that other routers in our network do not reset when this one does during it's hiccups.

If rolling back to 2.07 doesn't fix it I'll be back and will update this.  With the complexity of our network and mac filtering, reconfiguring from scratch is quite a time drain.

[tuntun]

Are there anyway I can test this NA FW to my DIR655B1? Currently I am using with 2.09 EU fw. I am locating at asia. Thanks

[FurryNutz]

It's not recommended to use cross regional FW. There are differences. Please keep with regional FW for your area.