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[lessblue]

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?

[Demonized]

I have an A2 without any issues. But I doubt they are still out there....

[lotacus]

A2 in Newfoundland is abundant. If you would to get the dir655, look for the A2 hardware revision with a f/w revision of 1.02. If you don't mind loosing WDS and LAN routing, which most normal consumers don't use, then I woudl recommend upgrading the firmware to no later than 1.21 (without securespot). I am not sure if 1.21 has shareport, but you want to make sure the firmware doesn't have it. All it's done is introduce numerous bugs, which *may* be fixed in 1.32, but then your scr3wed because 1.32 introduces, yet new bugs and if your unhappy with that new firmware, you CANNOT downgrade.

[lessblue]

Hmmm, hard to find A2 here, is A3 ok? I think A4 are mostly shipping in the states.

[Clancy]

Hmmm, hard to find A2 here, is A3 ok? I think A4 are mostly shipping in the states.

I have an A3 and I have flashed all updates without a problem. The only exception being the "Shareport" diversion but that seems to cross all hardware boundaries.

[timandjulz]

I will probably get flamed for this... but I would recommend looking at a different router.  This is from my personal experience.  YMMV.  Nothing against DLink... something against the firmware programmers for this router.

If I had to do it over again, I would look through the forums for the different routers and see which have the least number of serious problems being reported.  You have already taken a step that I didn't so kudos to you.

Cheers,
Tim

[lotacus]

I would take the wlan card and throw it in the linksys and run ddwrt.

[partach1]

...then you would buy something that is rubish..... (ok at least the software is)
None of the firmwares released can run for more than 3 days straight without going bananas.
Trying to get it fixed will make you go bananas too.
Dlink knows for at least 4 months it is crap 

and they are making sure that we spread the 'good word' by not helping us out in a decent way...

[Clancy]

...then you would buy something that is rubish..... (ok at least the software is)
None of the firmwares released can run for more than 3 days straight without going bananas.
Trying to get it fixed will make you go bananas too.
Dlink knows for at least 4 months it is **** 

and they are making sure that we spread the 'good word' by not helping us out in a decent way...

2 cents coming: From reading a very recent post in another thread, airing your complaints here is not going to get you anywhere if your intent is to be heard by D-Link. Your best bet would be to complain directly to the company. If you are simply speaking your opinion to the rest of us, then that is what this forum is for as well as people coming for answers from knowlegable contributors. Until I read that post, I was "slightly" under the impression that complaints registered here would filter up to the top but I don't think that is the case. My apologies if I am preaching to the choir.

[Johnnyboy!]

My Router (A3 v1.31) continues to toy with me. I've been really happy with it, as it has been sitting on my desk running for days and days and days without it restarting itself...  I've been using the wireless and wired system with no apparent problems.

That is, 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.

Check out this log entry:

[INFO] Mon Jun 22 21:58:17 2009 Wireless system with MAC address 001E5836C567 disconnected for reason: AP maybe crash...

I have seen several of these messages over the past few days. 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.

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

Do yourself a favour, go get your miseries with another router. Maybe one that can handle exceptions instead of simply restarting itself and killing all of your productivity.

I should have never have upgraded from my DI-524. It may have been old and slow, but it never crashed.

Banana anyone?

jB

[Clancy]

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.

Is your server part of your local network? Are you performing a plain file copy?

[Johnnyboy!]

Is your server part of your local network? Are you performing a plain file copy?

No, it's going to a remote server on the internet. It's a plain file transfer, but of course, whenever the router restarts (which is does every few hours) it cuts the connection to the server, and my software doesn't auto-reestablish the transfer. It's jsut annoying, that's all. I've looked into all the fixes mentioned here, even running with the Wireless AP turned off, but it still restarts occasionally, especially when there are a lot of packets flying through to the WAN port.

I'll figure it out. I plan on updating to the latest beta this weekend. We'll see how that goes.

jB

[Clancy]

Are you doing an HTTP transfer or an FTP transfer?

[lessblue]

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.

[cxny]

Not for nothing but I'd stay away from this model! I' just got mine a few of days ago and it's already acting up. For instance I was doing a large LAN file xfer and noticed web browsing on my cell slowed down to a crawl. Pages didn't even load anymore until I stopped it. I thought this had a built-in gigabit switch but apparently it's subpar in performance. Pretty lame, imo. I didn't have this problem with the DGL-4300 in case you're curious.