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I have been using this unit for over 3-1/2 years with absolutely no problems. It is constantly on and never has had to be rebooted except when my ISPs have had me messing with their cable modems.I am looking to get a wireless router because we have a couple laptops now and folks would like to use them away from the room where everything else is located. I may decide to keep this router and look for a WAP unit instead of a whole new router given that the reports on all routers, wireless and otherwise, but especially wireless, seem so all over the map regarding reliability and performance.Of course, the reviews on this device are all over the map as well and I have had no issues with it whatsoever.
I have has this product for several years and it has performed faithfully. Not really a big deal because i was just trying to track the roommates' bandwidth and we all have laptops with both wired and wireless. I like that you can set static IPs on the router. It also has alot of interesting features such as port forwarding that allows you to specify different public ports for each lan port, ex) publicly open port 10001 and forward it to port 22 on a local machine.Only problem I noticed is when i had 12 static ips set on their table it started ignoring those and began using dynamic ones. Resulted in me updating firmware and never tried it again because it not really important.I have Revision E (H/W:E1 on the bottom of unit) i can't really say anything about the other revisions. recently upgraded to their latest firmware and it seems to be perform alright.
This router does the job. A real work horse of a router. We have 2 computers and my xbox 360 hooked up to it. Performs much better than any wireless router I have tried. We had a fancy, schmancy wireless router-nothing but problems. Does fine. And you can't beat the price.
I like the simple, compact design of its case, unlike the odd-shaped ones from Linksys or Asante. It offers a WEB-based interface to adjust its settings.
Didn't know these things fail 'cause there aren't any moving parts. I got this to replace an Asante router that failed after about 5 years.
Hopefully it'll last another 5 years. Anyway, this D-Link router has worked great so far.
I've had it for about a month now and it's still going strong. The interface convenient but a little awkward.
Overall a great router.
I had purchased DLink's newer EBR-2310, which worked very well, but it lacked many features that I couldn't do without. Locate the "E3" version of the DI-604, since it is the last version and uses a faster ARM9 processor. I noticed no difference, testing with a laptop, between going through the DI-604 versus going straight into the cable modem.
As I have a lot of computers, and devices, connected to my network (through wireless AP's), I want to be able to centrally control IP's at one location (router). Port forwarding and virtual servers also work just fine.If you don't need the features that the EBR-2310 lack, I'd recommend going with the EBR-2310. The most important feature that it lacked for me was 'static' DHCP IP assignments.
The DI-604 also works great with XBox360, PS3, and P2P. Plus, many of my non-computer devices require it.The EBR-2310 is a nice router and I will continue to keep it for something down the road (perhaps a subnet), but it is a shame that it lacked such features that older DLink routers have. For most people, the EBR-2310 is all they need.As for the DI-604, performance wise, speed tests check out fine.
However, if you do need these features, go with the DI-604. Finally, update your firmware to Version 3.53
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