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[drick]

hi,

i'm considering purchasing this unit to replace my linksys wet200 bridge to connect up to my DIR-825. the primary reasons for doing so are as follows:

1. to create a N only segment on my network to potentially increase wireless performance
2. to be able to take advantage of WPA2 encryption as the WET200 has a known bug that prevents this from working
3. i'm slowly trying to replace all my LS equipment with DLink equipment
4. this bridge has all Gig ports, WET has 10/100 ports

i wanted to see what other people think of this unit, and to see if there is any reason not to purchase the unit?

thanks in advance for any/all assistance
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[drick]

p.s. what's the difference between the 1522 and 1555? the 1522 looks like it's a better unit, am i getting that wrong?

[anon]

1555 has 10/100 ports and external antennas.

[drick]

1555 has 10/100 ports and external antennas.

so then that would imply to me that the 1522 is a better unit for me, thanks for the clarification

[jerry6]

The 1522 is a great unit , nothing else on the market come close , for the price . So far with my new wndr3700 router i have not had to go into admin pages to reset connection after unit is turned off , either the 1.21 FW  fixed it or the new router gets along with the 152 better than my old wrt 600n . 
  Can't think of another gigabyte bridge with 4 rj45 ports with 2.4/5ghz bands  for the price .
 I use mine to stream 1080-p video , 2 computers and an x-box , nothing bogs it down . I use the 5 ghz band as it only has to go 30 ft through 4 walls  Signal strength is great , no breaks/stalls in video or lag on x-box

[marcusclaus]

It works just excellent for me. I have 2 DAP-1522 units to work as bridges for wires equipment at two places in my house, one of which is a DSM-510 with HDMI to my wide screen TV and the other one a bridge for the wired machines in the working room. The DAPs then use 5GHz WPA2 270Mbps N channel to my N+G dual band 270Mpbs@5ghz+54Mpbs@2.4ghz router that in turn has a wired Linksys 1+1 TB Mediahub. For other less demanding data i have a 2.4GHz WLAN SID as well. Works great everything. Equipment list:

-Siemens ADSL2+ modem 24 Mpbs
-Netgear WNDR3300 Dual Band router 270+54 N+G at 5.2+2.4 GHz bands, not overlapping channels, WPA2 AES (tkip is buggy and less secure + slower than AES)
-Linksys mediahub NMH410 with 1+1TB Raid1 setup with Twonky mediaserver
-Two DAP-1522 as bridges for:
   -Wired DSM-510 connected to HDMI 42" TV
   -2 Wired computers
-Clients: 3 laptops, 1 staionary hp desktop, Nokia and sony ericson cellphones with wlan support

[drick]

are any of you using QOS? if so, how do you have it set up?

[jerry6]

no , never seen that work properly on any router/bridge .

[lizzi555]

are any of you using QOS? if so, how do you have it set up?

I would not recommend using QoS in bridge mode if connected to a DIR-router also QoS enabled.
You will have 2 different QoS settings on the same line then.

I saw QoS dropping down my transfer rate, so I disabled it all.

My bridge is connected to a DIR-655 in 2.4 GHz mode without using WPS (disabled in all devices).
It is running without any issue since I installed FW 1.21.

[jtm]

For my network, no.  I returned a DAP-1522 because it would not reliably connect to a DIR-825 (Rev B) router.  Replaced with DAP-2553 which appears to connect and operate reliably with minimal setup effort.  I couldn't tell if the DAP-1522 or the DIR-825 was the root cause of the problem.