D-Link DIR-655 Extreme N Wireless Router
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Create a wireless network to share high-speed Internet access with computers, game consoles, or media players from greater distances in your home or office. Using D-Link Xteme-N wireless products makes it really easy! The D-Link DIR-655 Xtreme N Gigabit Router is a draft 802.11n compliant device that delivers up to 14x faster speeds and 6x farther range than 802.11g while staying backward compatible with 802.11g and 802.11b devices. Connect the Xtreme N Gigabit… Product details and pricing info |
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385 Customer Reviews Posted
- Easy to install, easy to customize
- Totally recommend this item. I have installed netgear and belkins in the past, for friends and family, and this D-link router is just as easy as any other. Following the quickstart instructions is just enough. I personally purchased this router because it had the shareport USB utility which allowed me to connect a USB external hard drive, that I can access anywhere from home, and it works fine. The only downside is that the hard drive is only accessible from one laptop at a time, which is fine for me at this moment. I hope D-link will improve this in the future. I live in a 1600 ft2 apartment and the signal is strong all the way to the last corner, at least 3 bars (out of 5). Make sure you follow the recommendations for the antennas and how to arrange them. It really makes a difference. Setting up a WEP-encrypted password is easier than other routers I had to work with. In conclusion this is a great product and I totally recommend it.
- 2008-11-21, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Conflicts with 2.4GHz Wireless Phones
- Total misery at first until I finally figured out my Uniden 2.4GHz phones were conflicting with this router and my wireless adapters (on two computers). No problem with old Netgear router with the Uniden phones, so it took me a bit to figure out why the new router worked SLOWER than my old Netgear. Easy fix--bought new 1.9GHz DEC phones and now everything works GREAT. Speed is so fast it's like I'm hard wired to my router. Great price, good web interface--well worth the money (and time to figure out everything) spent.
- 2008-11-21, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Another Excellent Router by D-Link
- Very easy installation and configuration.
I'm not a network expert but I was able to set both the wire and wireless connections quite easily with the wizards and documentation and even turn wireless security on in no-time.
Connecting to the wireless network with my laptop proved quite painless and simple - even after trying for the first time connecting to a WPA2 secured wireless network with a WiFi enabled smartphone!
The signal is very strong and I'm able to easily connect from every spot in my house and yard though the router resides at a back room.
I've been running this router for a few months now where a bunch of house guests have connected to it (if I were more paranoid I would be quite alarmed at the number of individuals having the password to my wireless network!) - and never had any issues connecting and maintainig a connection.
This router has so many feature and customization options as well.
Worth every cent! - 2008-11-18, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Avoid this product it's Wireless features are FLAWED
- I had a D-Link Wired Gigabit / Wireless 108G gaming router, I had no issues at all with it, it performed perfectly. Recently I got an ASUS 1000H and wanted to update to a Wired Gigabit / Wireless n router and picked this one.
I never experienced the following issues with my previous router:
1) It didn't connect smoothly to my modem, but after I restarted both a couple of times it connected.
2) The router hanged in the first hour around 4 times, I had no clue whether it's the network, the laptop, my wired PC or the Modem and troubleshooting concluded it's the router.
3) I upgraded to the latest firmware as of Nov 2008, still tons of issues, it works after I reboot cleanly for 5 mins or so, then wireless connections keep falling very frequently especially if I'm using more than 1 wireless or wired connection, also my PS3 and Vonage were not performing as well as before.
4) At best my Asus Wireless n got me a 65MB compared to 54MB for my old g card, but the signal faded very quickly to 34MB. But as it crashes like 10 times within 2 hours it's not worth it. Switched everything to G and still it drops the connection with any mid / heavy wireless usage pattern.
5) Used back my old router and everything working like a charm, I'm returning this now.... likely those who like it have a single connection or not using /n in this case I advice them to save the money and go for a different router. - 2008-11-17, 1 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Easiest set up so far
- after reading the previous reviews I did not bother with the automatic setup...just went with the manual and worked fine.
PROS After going through 56L 100 MB and now 300 MB routers this was by far the easiest to set up. speed is fine.
CONS Combined with the 141 USB adapter was hoping this would increase my range significantly from the 100 mb router to my notebook. No dice. Same distance as the old router which only had two antennas. Had to configure a port manually to allow outgoing faxes. - 2008-11-17, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
