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[bjarbj78]

Hi.

I have been using DIR-655 since 30.06.2008 and never ever had any problems with it... stable like you know... and at that time i had HW: A3 FW 1.1XX EU and i updated my FW to 1.21EU and still no problems at all. I never had so stable and good router before. So i upgraded my FW again now to v.1.32NA, I did the 30/30/30 rule for upgrading. I login into my router and change all my settings like i always had before. And disabled some new futures that was in the new FW, like Advanced DNS and DNS Relay is enabled(always had this at enabled). Another thing i notice after upgrade was in the Advanced settings, Virtual Server, Port Forwarding and Application Rule pages it almost take 10 seconds before the hole page appear. THAT didn't happen in FW v.1.21EU. When i viewed those pages it appear in max 2 seconds. SO whats wrong with this Firmware and why are u making firmware that is not working. I have been reading here and damn lot of peoples have some issue with this firmware. Well, my router was stable for 3 days 12 hours before my surfing stopped. Got lot of page error and everything was so slow. I was thinking maybe this problems was from my ISP.. so i just waited for 30 min, and still same problem.
Then i tried to login into my router, so u know what... ERROR, PAGE ERROR, WHIT PAGE, i couldn't login to my own router... Put i could ping my router IP. But not login, sometimes the login page appear, but it stopped.
This is not funny at all... I had a super stable router since June 2008, and now... i don't know... I'm so angry now... this mean i have to reboot my router every 3th day... what the heck. Please give us a stable firmware. And i can't even downgrade the firmware.. yeah well i knew that. But i didn't knew this FW had so much issue. What should i do now... throw this router?
Please help me... 

[bigeyes0x0]

This might sound weird but when I have kaspersky AV installed (the KIS should do the same) I have the slow loading problem. i guess the NDIS filter of Kaspersky doesn't like something in DIR-655 web code. As for lockup disabling DNS Relay works for me so far, I also disabled UPnP, HTTPS and Shareport in the router, and I only use Port Forwarding.

[bjarbj78]

Hi.
Has nothing to do with my anti-virus, as i wrote, i have been running this router perfectly since June 2008 and i still use the same anti-virus and i have tested this router problem from my other computer too.
And after firmware upgrade for 4 days ago, the router seems to be stable an good until now... 3 days 12 hours. I have restarted my router, and now i can login without any problems. So this router gonna be stable for 3 new days before it crash again. This problem started slow, suddenly some i got some page error while i was surfing., than all the traffic got slower too. Maybe my ISP... i took a break and still same problems, but more page error. So i was thinking maybe somthing wrong with router, so i started the login page for my router, and got page error, hmm... and i try again same problem... try to ping my router, no problem at all. Just couldn't login... and suddenly all traffic stopped.. no more internet, pinged the router again, no problem. Still error page and white pages on the router... I change my other computer from static IP to automatic to get DHCP ip.. but hell no.. no ip...
So i hope they gonna release a working firmware. becouse i don't want this problem again in 3 days... as i wrote, this router have been stable since June 2008, no problems at all...

So please help me and us other that have almost the same problems. So many have upgrade to firmware v.1.32NA.

Thanks

[bigeyes0x0]

Your paragraph is really hard to read, too long, fragment and basically only contains the information in your original post. To clear things up, please answer these questions in order:
- Do all your computer which you used to test the router has the same antivirus solution? If so what is the name of it, If not state their names and flavor please.
- Do you use any kind of P2P application? If so what is it? They can freeze the router by squeezing the router until it's out of resources.

FYI according to a DLink engineer the 30/30/30 method does not do anything for this router. That method as far as I know works for Broadcom based router only and particularly used widely with dd-wrt or other open source firmwares.

I did experience the web page loading slow down after upgrading to 1.32 but it was a problem by the combination of DIR-655 1.32 and Kaspersky ndis filter. As for router freezing up, I had it too after a few days using Bittorrent with the router using nearly default settings. Disabling what I said in my previous post has fixed the problem so far. One more possible reason is a bad flash, the way to fix it to reset your router to default settings, flash it through wired connection, then manually reenter all the settings.

[davevt31]

One question - if you originally had EU firmware on the router, why use one meant for North America?

[bjarbj78]

Hi.

Thanks for your answers.

1. 3 computers here is running NOD32 v.4.XX. I never had any problems with NOD32 and admin login to router. And i have login to my router the same day i flashed my firmware, and did a login 1 day later, and no problem. So Anti-virus NOD32 is not the problem here. And i have been running NOD32 for 2 years now.
And i only use Windows Firewall.

2. I do use uTorrent, but at that point i didn't use it... i had no activity on my router. I was just surfing. So P2P application was not the problem here.

3. Why i upgrade with US firmware? Well, i didn't see any WARNINGS for that..No warnings on the frontpage at www.dlink.com or the Norwegian dlink page. So if this FW is meant for US only, then way didn't i see a BIG red WARNING sign and in the dir655_release_notes.txt file in the ftp download site, i didn't see any warning for that, only PS! i found was. "This firmware does not allow downgrading to pre-1.3x." No warnings for EU users or for other Coventry.

Ok. I'm gonna re-flash my firmware again, as you said, "reset your router to default settings, flash it through wired connection, then manually reenter all the settings." I'm gonna test that.

I'll hope this fix my problem, if not... then i have to use 180 dollar for a new one... Why should i buy a new DIR-655, well i have been an happy user of this router for over 1 year without any problems.
But let's hope re-flash will solve this 3 days problems.

Thanks.

[aljimenez]

....  well i have been an happy user of this router for over 1 year without any problems.
But let's hope re-flash will solve this 3 days problems.
Thanks.

Am I the only one who does not understand why would someone who is happy with the product upgrades the firmware?

[JimMonz]

As for the updating the firmware if you're happy thing. Its cuz newer sometimes equals better.

Now, in this case NOT.

I wnet out and bought another DIR-655 with 1.21 firmware, and I didn't notice any difference the way I set it up. I do get ALOT of white no connection pages, but I just refresh the page and it comes up. I use Symantec Corp A/V.

First thing, default the router, connect and set up your admin password.
Also, update your drivers, one at a time, on each of you network adapters. Updating my Intel Wireless 5100 adapter helped out. But, go in check the settings for wireless N, make sure it is set to "Auto".

Now just try things out. Surf, check connection speed, tranfer files, etc.

Then add one option at a time, test again.

I did this and found out they have a problem with MAC address filters being lost.

I am currently running 1.32NA with no problems, MAC address filtering OFF. I get good speed now.

I hope this helps.

[bjarbj78]

Thanks JimMonz

As i wrote on my first post, i didn't have any issue with my router HW:A3 FW:1.21EU. Never had problems to login into the router and never experience any white pages on the Internet or in the router.

After a upgrade the firmware to 1.32NA everything seems to be fine, just very slow pages in Advanced settings, like Virtual Server, Port Forwarding, Application Rule. Those pages have been really slow after upgrading.
But everything else seems to be fine, no problem with surfing, downloading/uploading(full speed). My games servers are OK and Web Server too. Everything seems to be normally like it was with FW 1.21EU. After 3 days this start happening

I don't use the Wireless(maybe 1 hour at week). I don't use MAC address filtering either.
My router have been running now for 14 hours, no problems. So let's see what happens in 2 -3 days.

Thanks for your help.

[bigeyes0x0]

I haven't used NOD32 and tested it with the DIR so a way you can test it is to go to safe mode the fire up your browser and load the pages, if it's slow then I'm convinced there's something wrong with DIR-655 A3 and 1.32. The only difference is I have an A4 and it runs fast at these pages, save for the port forwarding page when I use Kaspersky (1.21 was fine IIRC).

[bjarbj78]

@bigeyes0x0

Thanks I'm gonna try that know, i let you know


EDIT:

Ok I'm inn safe mode now.. wow soo huge everything is
I fire up my browser(at this time i use FireFox v.3.5.3) and login to my router. Those pages load more faster now, it still use some time on the Port Forwarding page, but it's faster.
But i didn't had this problem with FW 1.21EU and my NOD32 is still the same, no update.

Thanks for the info about "slow page load.." But NOD32 is not the reason for why my Internet went down and the router to "freeze". The internet was down for some seconds, than it comes back for a few seconds, then down again, and i couldn't login to my router at that time, but my router answered on the ping test i did from my other computer, wile this was happening.

To my, this sound more like a router issue after upgrading firmware. I have never experience this before on my old firmware.

But i let my router run now and see if this gonna happen again in 3 days.

If it happens again than i'm gonna re-flash it again like you said on an earlier post here

Thanks for all info

[bigeyes0x0]

Yeah I agree with you the new firmware is unstable as in it might not work right for all ppl causing freeze and such, but at least the slow loading page IMO has something to do with the webpage code they use in this new version that AVs don't like.

When the router freeze like you mentioned, I bet after sometime when you can go in the router admin page, searching the logs you will see something like "Unable to create new connection...out of resource". I forgot the exact line but I got that when I had your issue. Anyway you can try disable those I mentioned, at least my router is rock stable now without some features that a router should have  .

[bjarbj78]

Hi bigeyes0x0

Okay.. i have been doing some testings here. The slow page problem with the new FW, is still the same with FireFox and IE.
So i did test this slow page problem from my second computer(running WinXP Pro SP3) with Firefox. You know what, no more slow pages. hmmm. So i was thinking maybe this has something to do with my NOD32 settings om this computer. So i was looking at my settings from the WinXP computer and they was 100% the same.. so i'm not sure, but from this computer i'm running VISTA Home Premium x64bit. So maybe that's why this FW version don't like VISTA, hehe
But yes... as you said above, it's most be some HTML code that VISTA not like... i think that's most be the reason since i never had this low pages with FW 1.21EU.

I also did an re-flash of this FW, just in case... but still the same from VISTA computer. slow like h... but running fast from my WinXP.

Well...I don't think there is an walk-around for this slow pages in VISTA. So lets hope they fix that in next FW.
Then i just have one more problem to solve, and that's is the 3 days bug i had, when my router start behave strange, and gave me page error when i was surfing, and not responded for login and no traffic.

Well i hope the new re-flash maybe solved my last problem, have to wait 3 - 4 days.

Thanks a lot for your help and informations.

Cheers:)

[bigeyes0x0]

Assuming that NOD32 has a NDIS filter like Kaspersky, the version of this filter on Windows XP should be different than on Vista as the two have different network stack architecture, that's likely the problem. A way to test this is to temporarily uninstall your AV app, I did that on my system and it works blazing fast then. As long as Dlink or our antivirus software creators fix this I have no complain, but it's not a major problem compared to router freezing and stuffs. Just remember HTTPS server is quite taxing on this router RAM and you can turns off Shareport and UPnP if you don't use them. So they're next on your list to disable if you still get a frozen router after a few days. Hope it will work out for you.

[totonebadass]

I have the same problem. Someone suggested to turn off dns relay ( ans it may be a bug with the router's dns relay). You need to manually add the dns servers to all pc accessing the net afterwards. you can get the dns servers from your status page before disabling.

I have turned off dns relay, but it's only been a couple of hours so I don't know if that works.