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[MLGTWISTED]

MLGTWISTED,

What hardware version is your router?

A1, I pretty much brought the router when it was first availible.

[zalmox]

just flashed this firmware and just saw that my ximeta nas drive not working anymore !
The router seems to block their LPX protocol !
The other 1.21 firmware i had before worked with the exception of the 2 or 3 day reboot cycle !
my revision is : A1
As a network administrator i must say that its just easier to make it possible to revert to an early state like 1.15 and then work out the problems in this firmware slowly while people at least got an option of a stable firmware !
When i bought it it did come with 1.15 firmware and worked perfectly for months and months without a single reboot but since i installed this 1.2x firmware i have to babysit this thing almost daily !
Cmon guys !!! How hard is it to make a downgrade possible I guess its easier than to patch up this swiss cheese 1.2x firmware !   

[Ru-Fi-Oh]

just flashed this firmware and just saw that my ximeta nas drive not working anymore !
The router seems to block their LPX protocol !
The other 1.21 firmware i had before worked with the exception of the 2 or 3 day reboot cycle !
my revision is : A1
As a network administrator i must say that its just easier to make it possible to revert to an early state like 1.15 and then work out the problems in this firmware slowly while people at least got an option of a stable firmware !
When i bought it it did come with 1.15 firmware and worked perfectly for months and months without a single reboot but since i installed this 1.2x firmware i have to babysit this thing almost daily !
Cmon guys !!! How hard is it to make a downgrade possible I guess its easier than to patch up this swiss cheese 1.2x firmware !   

Where do you see it being blocked? Do you have logs or packet captures we can look at?

[Kalmicon]

Made it just over three days and our DGL-4500 rebooted last night.

My sons x-box live played with no lag over the weekend and both signal strength and Mbps rate have been better to the x-box and both wireless laptops since the beta FW upgrade to our DGL-4500.

Since it does not lock up and require a power down daily with this beta FW I would say it is a overall  improvement from the last 1.21 FW but still does not address the reboot issue, at least on our unit. A step in the right direction but not the fix everyone is looking for yet.

[Ru-Fi-Oh]

Kalmicon,

What hardware version do you have?

[emilanderson]

 
So D-Link has the worst technical support... over an hour on the phone to just to be told to call RMA. Spoke to Letty (spelling?) who was a TOTAL jerk... so basically I spend over $200 on a router that is broken from day one (A1 H/W version) to then be told I have to spend money to ship it back AND pay the retail price of the replacement that you will send back to me that I dont even know if that one will work either?? As I posted in other comments, I do NOT have money to waste on another router....

What is this Ru-FI-oh??

IS this how D-Link takes care of people? Believe me if so you guys will lose LOTS of business from people as i am the GO TO tech guy for all my friends & family & gamer friends.....

Even with this firmware I have like a 20ft wireless range NO JOKE, and it dropes wan/reconnects wan loops for hours on end then its stable for a few hours or minutes til it goes through the connect/disconnect loops again...I have all the things disabled but again, what is the point of having a NICE gigabit QoS router if I cant even use QoS?!?

[Kalmicon]

Kalmicon,

What hardware version do you have?

Ru-Fi-Oh it is an A1.

We have had this router for at least a year, bought it from Circuit City and we all know were they are at now. It worked fine till I recently and unfortunately upgraded the FW. Now I see why all my IT department friends are so reluctant to do upgrades.

[Ru-Fi-Oh]

So D-Link has the worst technical support... over an hour on the phone to just to be told to call RMA. Spoke to Letty (spelling?) who was a TOTAL jerk... so basically I spend over $200 on a router that is broken from day one (A1 H/W version) to then be told I have to spend money to ship it back AND pay the retail price of the replacement that you will send back to me that I dont even know if that one will work either?? As I posted in other comments, I do NOT have money to waste on another router....

What is this Ru-FI-oh??

IS this how D-Link takes care of people? Believe me if so you guys will lose LOTS of business from people as i am the GO TO tech guy for all my friends & family & gamer friends.....

Even with this firmware I have like a 20ft wireless range NO JOKE, and it dropes wan/reconnects wan loops for hours on end then its stable for a few hours or minutes til it goes through the connect/disconnect loops again...I have all the things disabled but again, what is the point of having a NICE gigabit QoS router if I cant even use QoS?!?

Why did you contact Tech Support for? From what I told you your unit was approved for an RMA.

[emilanderson]

I didnt... RMA kept forwarding me to tech support and back around... they said that in order for me to get an RMA I have to pay for shipping AND pay for the router if I want it cross shipped... this is ridiculous. Why do I have to pay for something that was faulty anyway?

[Ru-Fi-Oh]

I didnt... RMA kept forwarding me to tech support and back around... they said that in order for me to get an RMA I have to pay for shipping AND pay for the router if I want it cross shipped... this is ridiculous. Why do I have to pay for something that was faulty anyway?

I will look into why you were getting transfered around when you already got approved. As for you paying for the  price for the router that is standard cross ship procedure. The payment is to ensure we get your defective unit in  as you get a replacement unit first and you will be refunded as soon as we receive your unit. It is like a deposit.

Or you have the option to send your unit to us first and when we receive it we will send the replacement.

[emilanderson]

Well that's all fine & dandy but I HAVE to have a router & I dont have the money to spend to pay you guys for another router.

[Ru-Fi-Oh]

emilanderson,

You should be contacted by Customer Service soon. Any more questions feel free to PM me.

Also please try to stay on topic. With your issue either create a new board or like I said feel free to PM to resolve this particular issue. Thank you

[sphinx99]

Well, I had three reboots with this latest firmware.  Once about two days after upgrading, then again a day later, then a day after that.  Each time was under moderate wireless load, watching a SD video from my HTPC across a network link.  The stream would slow down, stutter in fits and spurts for a minute or so, then the router would reboot.

I installed my Netgear WNDR3700 yesterday and it's a breath of fresh air. 

[zalmox]

Where do you see it being blocked? Do you have logs or packet captures we can look at?

Since lpx protocol does not use standard tcp packets or ip adresses and its not loged by the router i cant simply say why or where the router blocks this up !
On this router i have another acess point (192.168.0.2) with ddwrt firmware instaled and when connected directly to my ximeta ndas device it works correctly with my computer finding the drive if i connect to my acess point but if i connect to my dgl-4500 witch is my dhcp server and it does all the routing it gets blocked !
I have yet to see if the dgl-4500 is blocking lpx trough the wired connexion !
I only tested with wireless in 5.2Ghz mode !
Dont forget that lpx is a closed proprietary protocol and tools to capture it are virtually non existant !
By the way sorry for my horrible english !

[zackiv31]

As a recent RMA'er who received an A2 I want to point to an issue that I still think is the culprit to the rebooting...

Do you guys have heavy usage (maybe some torrents?).  Do you see a lot of logs in Status > Logs and eventually see the reboot?  If you can't sit around and watch your router for days to see, try disabling Info Logging.

In my experience with my A1, disabling Info Logging as well as disabling SPI and Endpoint Independent packets stopped my router from rebooting...  too bad the 1.21NA firmware had a ton of problems with Wireless N on my laptops.

Glad to note that my A2 hasn't had these wireless problems, but only up for a day and a half so I'm waiting for some reboots.

If D-Link deems this post to be incorrent I apologize, but I'd love to hear from a developer if my instructions could actually help the reboots?