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[ozzed3]

Hi again fellow D-linkers. I'm Ozzed. I was banned from this forums awhile back for revealing to the public that the 655 indeed has Bridge mode functionality (They have just hidden it by CSS hacks), and maybe having opinions that the so called moderators don't like..

Anyway.. I'm a nice guy so I forgive them.. Just wanted you to know how they deal with people who aren't always all "D-link is always right".

Anyway 2: I'm having some issues now with my router since I moved to a new apartment. At first I'd get no connectivity at all but after having software and hardware-reset the router and slapped the 1.30EU firmware onto it it works great, except this one thing.. It keeps freezing up on me after a day or so of use, the status light and other lights will still flash, but I can't access the interface, and I can't get any connectivity through it.

If it is of any help I am pretty much constantly seeding torrents.. not that I THINK it has anything to do with it because, well.. Having payed $120 for a router I kind of expect it to, you know.. work.

Thankful for any help and so forth.

Oh and mods.. If you decide to be all childish again and ban me.. I DO know how to connect through a proxy, and it's not like I don't know how to make new threads either. You'll only embarrass the company you work for by trying to pretend everything is fine and that no one is complaining.

And you also need to quit spamming with "Wireless AP" products. The Dir-655 works fine as an AP.. You shouldn't hide it..

Thanks for reading.. I'd be surprised if this gets to stay here longer than a day and I'd have to redo it all again, but don't worry, I saved a copy of the thread in notepad, so I'll be good.

[PeterJvM]

Just applauded,

I didn't get banned yet but I was called a troll because I just kept on asking the same question.
I kept on asking the same question because I didn't get any answer or got an evasive answer.
Probably critical customers are not really appreciated.
Some of the people on this forums think it is necessary to call them noob or troll. They back this by calling themselves experts  and asking complainers to come up with a solution.

Bet I get smacked for this ! 

[ozzed3]

To be fair, I'm not the only person who found out about D-link's pitiful attempts of hiding the bridge functionality. But then again regular users will never find out if you get banned.. There isn't a "This user is banned"-flag like on most other forums. It just appears as through they are not posting..
So the next time someone makes sense and suddenly stops posting, they probably got banned.

I honestly don't see why they are so uptight about this.. The bridge functionality is there and it works flawlessly.. If they want to be "Green" they shouldn't force us to buy more useless boxes with circuits in them.. But the "Green" might mean dollars for them.. Not sure..

Anyone know any causes/solutions to my issue with the restarts by the way?

[PeterJvM]

The bad thing, imho is that bridge functionality was easily accessible in fw 1.03,
it is a basic router function that should never have been taken from the standard menu's.
I agree with you that this is contradictive with any "green" intention other than cashing in.

It looks like every new fw leads to new problems or trades in old for new problems.
People over here that mention the fact that other brands have problems too forget that for most
other brands there is alternative fw (dd-wrt and a few more) that solves most if not all problems.

My choice is to trade in D-Link for other brands that, at least at the moment, provide better reliability
and better performance.

[ozzed3]

My point exactly. ALL other brands include visible, easily accessible bridge mode in their routers, because it is a de-facto standard. And, for that matter, suits the whole "Green" approach well since the costumer won't have to get additional hardware to get the functionality.
D-link should either stop telling lies about the bridge mode and unhide it in the CSS-code or drop the whole "We care about the environment"-talk. Because REMOVING bridge-mode functionality is something no one at d-link has the skill for. Ubicom wrote the GUI to begin with and probably assumed that D-link was a company that understood that bridge mode is considered a de facto standard in today's routers.. Especially the ones you pay hundreds of dollars for.

Regarding my problem I have tried to limit the upload slots per torrent and limited the upload-speed to 100KB/s to try and figure out if it's an issue with the number of simultaneous connections.

Needless to say is that if I'm suddenly not typing anymore, or even more likely, if this thread gets deleted. I'm banned and just need some time to get yet another account.. Just letting you know.

[PeterJvM]

Having had similar problems(network congestion like) I was pointed at netlimiter pro 2
go and have a look at www.netlimiter.com it's an affordable piece of software that serves me well.

[abhiku]

Not sure if this is related... I was having wireless restarts issue on my router 2 days ago. Found out that I enable IPV6 on one of my desktop for DLNA client for BRAVIA TV.

Disabling IPV6 fixed the wireless restart issue..you can try that if that works for you.

Also can you respond to my PM...

[EddieZ]

I was banned from this forums awhile back for revealing to the public that the 655 indeed has Bridge mode functionality (They have just hidden it by CSS hacks), and maybe having opinions that the so called moderators don't like..

Please be thruthful here: you weren't banned because of 'revealing' the presence of the bridge feature. If my memory serves me well it was 'trolling' that caused it.

There are many posts about the revealing of the bridge feature on the 655 thread, pics included. So you're trying to sell a dead horse.

[ozzed3]

Am I missing something then? I didn't know that users could see if other users got banned or not, but anyhow the reason it states for the ban is "Flaming", which is among the most ridiculous excuses I have ever heard. I never "flamed" anyone. Although by D-links standards criticism towards people with an unconditional love for their products and a "Move along nothing to see here"- attitude towards pin pointed issues counts as flaming too. Besides.. the fact that they have removed all threads describing how to repair their messed up CSS to get bridge mode function visible should tell you something. It is horrible.

Regarding my problem: I'm on a wired connection and the router is freezing rather than restarting. I'm using windows 7 though.. Might be some IPV6 things switched on by default or something.. Not really sure if that would have an impact though.

Edit: I found this thread: http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=4542.0

So I guess I was wrong about them deleting threads about the bridge mode... Anyways, since you were so sure that I was being banned without being intended to have the knowledge I suppose that solves the whole "WTF??" issue of me being banned without having broken any rules.

I doubt you'll be getting free stuff from D-link by nicely eating from their hand though.. But here's one for you.. Even though you personally may think it is perfectly natural to buy extra hardware for functionality you have in your existing one, the majority of us don't.

I KNOW that the Dir-655 is intended as a router, and I also know that it is a de facto standard to offer bridge mode functionality for a router. So in that sense, until D-link comes clean about it, the Dir-655 is in fact a CRIPPLED router, and that doesn't even take the rest of the firmware issues into account.

And if you claim you didn't report me or whatever, then I'd like to know how you found out I was banned.. This is starting to look more and more like a big joke.

[ozzed3]

Sorry about the double-posting but.. Thing would get kinda cluttered with edits otherwise..

The router just died on me again... First time it has actually happened when I'm on the computer.. Usually happens at night when I sleep. I'm starting to suspect this thing can't handle more than x open connections at a time.. It's ironic how in Sweden they market it as "Perfect for those using torrents". More to come.

[EddieZ]

Am I missing something then? I didn't know that users could see if other users got banned or not, but anyhow the reason it states for the ban is "Flaming", which is among the most ridiculous excuses I have ever heard. I never "flamed" anyone. Although by D-links standards criticism towards people with an unconditional love for their products and a "Move along nothing to see here"- attitude towards pin pointed issues counts as flaming too. Besides.. the fact that they have removed all threads describing how to repair their messed up CSS to get bridge mode function visible should tell you something. It is horrible.

Regarding my problem: I'm on a wired connection and the router is freezing rather than restarting. I'm using windows 7 though.. Might be some IPV6 things switched on by default or something.. Not really sure if that would have an impact though.

Edit: I found this thread: http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=4542.0

So I guess I was wrong about them deleting threads about the bridge mode... Anyways, since you were so sure that I was being banned without being intended to have the knowledge I suppose that solves the whole "WTF??" issue of me being banned without having broken any rules.

I doubt you'll be getting free stuff from D-link by nicely eating from their hand though.. But here's one for you.. Even though you personally may think it is perfectly natural to buy extra hardware for functionality you have in your existing one, the majority of us don't.

I KNOW that the Dir-655 is intended as a router, and I also know that it is a de facto standard to offer bridge mode functionality for a router. So in that sense, until D-link comes clean about it, the Dir-655 is in fact a CRIPPLED router, and that doesn't even take the rest of the firmware issues into account.

And if you claim you didn't report me or whatever, then I'd like to know how you found out I was banned.. This is starting to look more and more like a big joke.

No sure knowledge about your bans, but I do seem to remember that making the forum a blowhole for all kinds of complaints and ranting does not contribute to the purpose of the board and does not welcome other users trying to get some user-assistance....

[ozzed3]

Now look here.. If it wasn't for the fact that there indeed IS something wrong with the way D-link are dealing with their stuff right now, no one would agree with me, tell me to go to bed and just deal with it. Instead pretty much everyone agreed with me. The only people who didn't agree seems to be the ones who think that just because they don't have a problem, no one does.

Like I said, if you are fine with wasting money for a separate AP, go ahead and do that, no one is stopping you.. But you won't get any extra stars in anyone's book for kissing D-link butt.

The router is still up and running at the moment, and it works fine. It seems like it jumps from working just fine to completely freezing up.

[partach1]

The router still has some issues in the stability department. It seems they pop on different places. I offered my help multiple times and gave a lot of info too (see a few of my threads where I can get the router to die daily). Dlink does not put much effort into getting to the bottom of and solving the problems and it seems indeed you are not really allowed to speak up about it.

In the end were it comes down to is that I understand people's frustration, Dlink brings it onto themselves by not giving it the attention it deserves.

In fact the router has not been stable since I bought it in February (and sure some will deny that again). Which company can afford not bringing out a decent stable software version for about a year??

What is double frustrating in this is that some people on this forum are trolling by constantly making people out for trolls and sorts. All they ever seem to contribute is "carry on folks nothing to see here". Now those people need to be banned! 

[ozzed3]

The above poster sums up what I mean on the spot. Well spoken.

The router has died AGAIN.. My settings now are 50 peers per torrent and 1000 global connections.. That's making torrents barely usable but I'm keeping it like this for testing purposes. I'll see for how long it wants to live this time.

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Edit:

I just tried changing the firewall settings from endpoint independent to port and address restricted. Maybe it dies because D-link cheaped out on the RAM or something.. Or simply because it seems to be D-link logic to hide stuff that works, and display stuff that doesn't. What I'm trying to say is that maybe the router gets too many connections for it to handle if the filtering is set to endpoint independent. I'll get back to you and tell you how it goes. Unless of course I'm banned till then.

[MitchSchaft]

do you turn ddns off?