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[claykin]

Been running a B1 revision for a week now.  I immediately upgraded the firmware to V2.02NA upon initial setup and then defaulted the router. From there I configured using my settings.  Router has been working well so far except for the following problem I discovered yesterday.

Wireless client = Atheros 5004 a/b/g with Atheros client GUI and driver V5.3.0.85 (the latest I can find for the aging 5004x series)

I have the DIR-825 set to HIGH transmit power for both 2.4 and 5 Ghz bands.  My Atheros client is showing the 5Ghz power setting at 3mw (AP set) even though I have it set to the maximum 50mw setting.  Rebooting the PC and router have no effect and I cannot get the transmit power to report over 3mw.  Worse is that my 5Ghz range is horrible.  Way worse than my 5 year old Netgear 5Ghz AP this replaces.

From there I enter into the DIR-825 web config and confirm the power setting is set to HIGH for both 2.4 and 5Ghz.  I proceed to set 5Ghz to LOW power and then SAVE.  The web config refreshes the screen but it still indicates HIGH.  I try again, but same result.  Hmmm.  I then reboot the router and try again.  This time the power setting changed to LOW when I SAVED it.  The Atheros client still shows 3mw (AP set).

I then switch the router power setting back to HIGH and SAVE.  As a safety measure I reboot the router.  When it comes back up my Atheros client shows 50mw and my 5Ghz range is vastly improved.

Seems to be OK now, but I think you have a firmware glitch in how the transmit power settings are stored and saved in V2.02NA.

One other thing for you to check....As a test I tried setting 2.4Ghz to low power.  I get the same range on my 2x notebook PC's no mater whether its set to LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH.  Range is excellent so I think the transmit power setting option isn't working as intended.  Please check.

Sorry for the long ramble, but I wanted to make sure the Dlink engineers understand the problem exactly.

[claykin]

Thanks for responding Dlink.  Not even a simple "we'll look into it" or "sorry but we cannot duplicate".  Nada.  Whats the point of these forums?

[ybbmadysu]

I have noticed the same issue. Also, I set wireless 5Ghz to N only, and try to channel width to auto 20/40. but after it reboots its stuck at 20. I tried to set it and then power cycle, no help.
definitely a firmware issue. I returned a belkin n+ cause the usb transfer was horrible, but wlan to lan was fast. this is slow all around.

[claykin]

My clients are all "g" and "a" (54Mb/s).  I have also noticed that WLAN-WLAN and WLAN-LAN throughput is somewhat poor, at around 2MB/s on the DIR-825.  My "a" client was getting about 3.5MB/s on my 5 year old Netgear dual band 108Mb/s router.  Since my "a" client is Atheros and supports 108Mb/s I figured that may have something to do with the better performance on that old router.  I don't have an "n' client to test with right now.

My main reason for switching out the router was because the old Netgear didn't play nice with the Intel 3945 when WPA is enabled.  Didn't make a difference whether I used WPA/WPA2 or TKIP/AES all settings caused really poor throughput and dropped connections.  Even the latest Intel driver couldn't help to resolve it.  That issue has been resolved with the DIR-825.

I presume that Dlink has some serious tweaking to do with the DIR-825 B1.  I'm cautiously hopeful they will get around to it sooner rather than later!!!

[ybbmadysu]

Since this is open source firmware, Im going to hang on to this. In hopes that DLink or BrainSlayer (ddwrt) will develop a more stable code.

For us, this is replacing a wrt54gs v3 with ddwrt. I had that in service for about 5-6 years. NEVER had any issues with it until a month ago. Seems like the radio is on its way out.
Have you checked out ESR7750 from engenius? this is a dual cpu dual band radio, but no gigabit. $75new. I might give that a try also.

[claykin]

Have you checked out ESR7750 from engenius? this is a dual cpu dual band radio, but no gigabit. $75new. I might give that a try also.

Uses Ralink chipset so I'm less interested.  Also this Engenius router is not high power like many of their other products.  Standard 100mw on 2.4Ghz and 50mw on 5Ghz.  I would not expect range to be any better than the DIR-825 B1.  See here:  http://www.engeniustech.com/resources/02_ESR-7750%20DataSheet.pdf

[claykin]

Since this is open source firmware, Im going to hang on to this. In hopes that DLink or BrainSlayer (ddwrt) will develop a more stable code.

Hopefully the DDWRT folks get a chance to spend some time with this router.  With the AR7161 CPU and 64MB RAM, they should be able to get DDWRT running on this box.

[aczez]

I returned my DIR-825 due to troughput issue's and got myself a cheaper linksys wrt320n. (i dont need dual radio)

If some day dd-wrt is able to run on the 825, then maybe it wil be a interesting router.
But i dont think that is going to happen any time soon.


 

[ybbmadysu]

Well I lied. I returned it today and picked up the WRT400n. WOW WOW WOW. Now I feel the speed. WOW

Should have never left linksys.

Good Luck to you all.

[claykin]

Well I lied. I returned it today and picked up the WRT400n. WOW WOW WOW. Now I feel the speed. WOW

Should have never left linksys.

Good Luck to you all.

Maybe this will be motivation for Dlink to get a fix rolled out sooner rather than later!

[Kanati]

Maybe

[JasonInLasVegas]

Sweet!
Now I know what I am going to do with my A1 firmware 825! Instead of bricking it, then getting a replacement from DLink, I was going to just retail box swap at a box store to get a B firmware.

Now I will return the Box-swap version and get the Linksys 440w.....and be done with the DLink issues altogether!

I encourage everyone who reviwes this post to simply swap vendors!  As consumers, we have to exercise our voting with our forum posts and back it up with our dollars!