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PandaPaul updated D-Link DIR-615

PandaPaul — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:24:05 -0400

October 17, 2009 at 4:24 pm

new pro/con: Ease of installation is illusory.
agreed: "wireless N speeds require the latest wireless clients"
disagreed: "most consumers have no use for the enhanced speeds"
agreed: "It works great except that I have to reboot it about every 2 months."
agreed: "10/100Mbit wired connections only (some are gigabit)"
agreed: "Three different hardware revisions are on the market, refurbished A1 revision is plaguing the market"
disagreed: "Pretty good support compared to other companies"
disagreed: "Easy to setup with the included software, but 60% of the people screw that up and blame the router."
disagreed: "Relatively high quality"
agreed: "enhanced reach of the wireless N signal is useful"
agreed: "supports secure WPA/WPA2 encryption"
agreed: "inexpensive compared to other wireless N options"
tapped as "have it"
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PandaPaul commented on D-Link DIR-615

PandaPaul — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:23:04 -0400

October 17, 2009 at 4:23 pm

"It's contradictory to state that installation is very easy but the majority of people screw up the installation. It's easy to go through the quick setup screens following the instructions but hard to troubleshoot problems with the installation after that. "

"D-Link does not care about the suckers ...er.. I mean. customers that buy D-Link products. The dir-615 is not the first product released by D-Link that has had firmware errors. I had numerous problems with a dir-615 being installed for an elderly relative that can't be bothered with complicated unplugging and replugging or resetting nonsense everytime one wants to read an email in the kitchen. After I read the numerous complaints about the dir-615 on the internet, I decided I would install an old surplus di-524 router I had instead, and advise that the dir-615 be returned for a refund. (The Laptop only had a b/g adapter so would run ok with the di-524). No sooner did I start to install the di-524 than I ran into a software bug in the setup wizard that would stop after requesting the time zone information. No NEXT button would ever appear. Oh Yeah! That's why my own router is not a D-Link router! Oops! I forgot!"

PandaPaul updated D-Link DIR-615

PandaPaul — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:42:26 -0400

October 17, 2009 at 1:42 pm

tapped as "have it"
untapped as "have it"
found Yale's review helpful
found Patrick Ellis's review helpful
tapped as "have it"

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PandaPaul — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:32:50 -0400

October 17, 2009 at 1:32 pm