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[javamarc]

Hello,

this is my first post. I'm a communications engineer and usually work with Cisco products or dedicated Linux boxes. I have bought the DIR-655 for home use mainly because of some good reviews and its very long warranty period. I thought that manufacturers must have very good faith in their product if they offer 11 years of coverage.

To be honest, it was quite a shame for anything above the 1.11 firmware (<1.3). From completely unusable port forwarding, UPnP broadcasts still on the wire with UPnP switched off there was everything on board, even for non beta releases. At some point there seemed to be so much development focus on end user features like UPnP, that intermediate to professional users were left in the rain with such basic things as a broken manual port forwarding implementation.

So my question is, is there any release above 1.11, that provides at least the following features without flaws:

• Port forwarding
• SIP ALG (for Cisco PAP2T)
• Stable and fast wireless operation without WISH, QoS, etc.
• Ideally don't choke on <= 1000 simultaneous connections

One might ask, why upgrade at all? Well I have seen 802.11n routers with better performance and compatibility in the 2.4 GHz band. I was hoping that that might have improved since 1.11. But for anything above 1.3 there's no way back, so I thought that I ask this community for advice.

[lizzi555]

Reading your post, I assume you are using the European version. The last "real good" firmware without feature overload I had on this device was a 1.12ww version.

ftp://lizzi555.dyndns.org/Download/WLAN/DLINK/DIR/DIR-655/Firmware/old/DIR655A3_FW112B00beta.bin

•Port forwarding

Never had problems with my two http and ftp servers and different other ports for management.

•SIP ALG (for Cisco PAP2T)

Sorry, never owned this device.

•Stable and fast wireless operation without WISH, QoS, etc.

1.12 was fast and reliable at least with my Atheros and Ralink 11N Cards.
1.2x and higher do not have the same performance for me but are also very compatible with other chipsets.

•Ideally don't choke on <= 1000 simultaneous connections

This is also a question of the hardware (memory...).
Don't compare a Cisco or Lancom with a D-Link which costs only a fourth of them.
It is a SOHO Router and does its work fine here.

[javamarc]

Thank you for your comments, lizzi555!

So you basically can't recommend going anywhere 1.3x, yet.

I think it might be best to stay with 1.11, then. It fulfills my listed requirements so far and I see no immediate benefit to change to 1.12beta, that I haven't tested, yet.

It's a little sad. 1.11 has no usable QoS for me. It works initially, but after some time it starts chocking occasionally for the high prio queues. I had hoped that the 1.3 branch would fix my basic requirements again (totally unusable in 1.2x) and provide better wireless performance and usable QoS on top. I'll dream on then...