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[UserCookie69]

4 1/2 days uptime before reboot i ahve been watching and seems that both wireless and wired randomly disconnects and restablishes, but yet when it shows connection lost i still have an active connetion cause i can still surf for an issue can be seen under windows 7 i have been watching it it seems like roughly every 3 mins i'll get a fraps or something of it to better explain it.

Otherwise great process so far guys I have faith in you guys keep it up.

for those who will continue to whine rather then try and help for the greater good of DGL-4500 go back to wireless G

[Legionx]

I've been reading and posting on this forum for a bit, and I read your post awhile ago on this very topic! Since my " ORIGINAL UNIT " was under warranty I just took note of the situation. I was one of the few who received a replacement A2 unit. Most of the problems that y'all were having, I too was Having. With the replacement unit most went away EXCEPT the random and inexplicable self reboots and disconnects. After rereading your post I did some exploratory surgery, like you mentioned the anodized heat sink / grounding plate had some pretty bad scratches and dimples from long leads of various components. I would say that there is some really bad QA and bad manufacturing.
    I've made my mind up, as far as I'm concerned I'll never purchase another D-Link product again!!!!!

Well they should look into it to see if that is causing problems. Looks like there is no difference between A1 and A2. Yea its something they should really look into because maybe that is what causing problems for many people.

[Legionx]

Not to sure right now still looking more into it but Advanced DNS may be causing slow downs i find when it was disabled things were faster and more smooth. Will have to test more though to see if its actually that.

[Dragonslore]

Instead of Advanced DNS, you're better of just using OpenDNS.

The settings are:

208.67.220.220
208.67.222.222

If you register for a free account, you get more control over your DNS such as being able to filter according to category and or domain.

I use the settings from this page for my OpenDNS settings Block list - 25

[phat78boy]

Had this version running for about 3 days, then my internet speeds when to crap and everything became laggy. Reboot of course fixed the issue, but it is still a pain to go reboot your router before you need to use it for something important. That has become standard practice with this model.

Using a few different internet speed sites, my speeds come in under 5MB....after a reboot back to over 30MB. I do use torrent and have remote ports open for gaming and my windows home server. Other then that, there is nothing out of the ordinary for this to keep happening. I have also turned of Advanced DNS.

Please make this box stable.

[rileyper]

Thanks

!!!!update!!!!
after firmware update

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN

will report in a few days if it holds up, thanks again

So far up for 8 days Dlink you've done it, bravo....but will be wary of future firmware updates

[Ru-Fi-Oh]

Any of your techs can come to my house to see the problem first hand. And if it is something I've done that has caused the problem I'll eat your shoe and post it on youtube.com that is how confident it isn't me and your cr@p router/firmware coding.

We would love to see the failure happen. Send me a personal message with your contact info and we will arrange someone to go to your location.

[Ru-Fi-Oh]

The design of the case has little pegs so the board does not touch the metal plate. There are also cushions to prevent this from happening as well. If you take out the plate and the board, it may look like the leads are touching but when they sit in the case it has the pegs and cushion to prevent this from happening.

In addition we will look into this. We are working to get about 20 RMA'ed units to see if we can find some units with scratches on the metal plate and run test accordingly.

Please do not open your unit as this will void your warranty.

[MPDamon]

The only problem that I still have with this router is when I try to use PS3 remote play over the internet the router keeps turning my PS3 on please fix this please!!!!!!!!!!

They have know about this for quite some time.  Firmware 1.02 was the last firmware to work for the PS3 Remote play over the internet.   They were working on a solution and then I think the s*** hit the fan with some of the bad firmware updates and it probably was put on the back burner. 

[cedric205]

How is the router turning your PS3 on? Please elaborate on your setup. What are you doing exactly when this happens?

Ru-Fi-Oh Please read this old thread that someone made it explains it (PS3 Remote Start Over Internet Ongoing Issue http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=2403.0)

[MPDamon]

Ru-Fi-Oh Please read this old thread that someone made it explains it (PS3 Remote Start Over Internet Ongoing Issue http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=2403.0)

Yep that was my thread.  I actually talked to a tech a few times via PM but like I said the issue got dropped and I couldn't get a response after a while.

[darklight_tr]

Well, this firmware seems to be working better than the previous 1.2x versions.  Internet performance is better and my wireless signal to my DAP-1555 seems to be stronger.  A step in the right direction!

[Legionx]

Instead of Advanced DNS, you're better of just using OpenDNS.

The settings are:

208.67.220.220
208.67.222.222

If you register for a free account, you get more control over your DNS such as being able to filter according to category and or domain.

I use the settings from this page for my OpenDNS settings Block list - 25

Yea thanks for the information ill probably do that once I'm done testing this. I know for the fist day i had advanced DNS on was getting choppy video, many wireless disconnects and reconnects. As for when i had it disabled i did not have any issues. So trying 5 days up time without it and 5 days up time with it.

[MLGTWISTED]

Been testing the new firmware now since its release, and I've had to turn wireless off completely because it can't maintain a stable connection.  It can be working okay for a night, but when we go down in the morning internet pages fail to load and I need to reboot the router again.

I've had to run cables to my work office because the wireless isn't good enough to run my business on, I tested the wireless for 2 days on my linksys and I had none of these issues.  So wireless performance is still very poor for such an expensive router, and I've using this router for some time now, I don't think were going to see a fix to the wireless problems here.  I hate to rip on D-link here, but I don't know what you guys need, new software, better hardware, better programmers because the attempts at fixing this router don't look to be working.

Im not testing wireless anymore; its off for good and Im not dealing with it anymore, it can't even stay connected for more than one day.


WIRED

Well now Im on wired I see the QoS is not working correctly, you can pretty run any QoS test on the internet can get below 50% QoS, run the same test on some basic router and get 85% QoS.

I had to turn gamerfuel off because I was getting increased xbox live lag, well not lag but higher latency, and SPI is off again because of increased latency.  So what I have now is a QoS router without all the QoS fuctionality, imagine the di-604 and thats pretty much how it looks right now.

I appreciate this is a beta and things need even more work, but unless something changes quickly; thats 3 firmware beta's where wireless performance has been very poor.  We need a beta test for just wireless activity, improving it, maintaining a connection, and to become stable.

I think d-link needs to be doing more about this and fixing standard networking.

[Ru-Fi-Oh]

MLGTWISTED,

What hardware version is your router?