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[Demonized]

hmmm, i've heard great things about the dir-655 but i've been hearing more and more problems with the latest versions. i may just have to pick up a dd-wrt capable router for now unless d-link fixes these firmware issues.

That's the only things you will see on a forum....problems. If you check out the Linksys forum you will find the same thing: issues.

[partach1]

.....until I started to use it continually.  I have been trying to upload a few gigs to a server the past 2 days over the *wired* connection, now it's restarting itself every few hours killing my transfer. Of course I don't notice until several hours after it has dies, thus pissing me off even more.

get the POed part, strugling for four months myself but letīs hang in there as it can be a great router if they can fix the freakin firmware...
But i read interesting things here. I use my router with many client heavily too. With all firmwares it is not capable of running for more than a few days and then it indeed flips the bird when I am not looking

The funny thing is, whenever it crashes, the system date reverts back to May 24th, 14:30somthing before the NTP corrects it. I think that is about the same time I upgraded the firmware to 1.31.

Yet another interesting point - correlatoin. When I updgraded firmwares it is not able to handle a restore settings. At least it is until you leave the time settings default. With this i mean that when I enter an NTP client in there and reload that as settings (with all my other settings) the router freaks out. You are then no longer able to log in! and it starts rebooting every minute or so....
So again NTP-time settings is a suspect regarding unstability? (TS are you reading along here?)

I feel like my router acts normal whenever I look at it, but when I turn my back, it's fingering me.

LMAO 

Banana anyone?

Yep we are going ape it seems with this thing 

Thinking about it, it is a good nickname for the 655!

[Johnnyboy!]

I'm gonna start a (another) new topic dealing with this NTP problem...

[zCornerHermit]

Hello, I hope to buy a new router soon as my Linksys is quite old.
Is there a desirable revision number?
What firmware is the most reliable?

In the FWIW column, here's a link to a quicko/revisit review of the DIR-655 A4. The A4 is the most recent version of the hardware which I know of (in the US). The focus of the linked review was primarily on whether there was on what, if any, change there was from the original review of the original hardware version.

My feeling is you have to take negative posts with a grain of salt. Wireless networks are complicated beasts and there are many, many reasons why one can be having bad results. Being human, if something is not working we naturally focus on what seems the most obvious factor to us such as which version of the hardware we are working with. The truth may not (or may) be that simple.

That said, I myself am holding off from upgrading to the current non-revocable firmwares. I'm at v1.21 and it seems to work well enough for me. I would like to move up to a v1.3x firmware to see if the USB connect function works (better) there. But the fact that I can't revert to an earlier version of the firmware makes me leery of jumping in head first.

-irrational john