( 7 reviews )
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Posted: Jul 2 2009
DLink has very nice products and a full product line. Tempting... I have 3 gone bad in less than 2 years on average. Warranty is only 1 year. The first one died shortly after 1 year of operation. I replaced it and purchased the 3rd unit two months later for our brand new second location. On my 3rd unit I got an extended 2 year warranty but it died 1 month after the extended warranty expired. Actually, both died at about exactly the same: just a little over 2 years - two months apart. Nobody can convince me that this is coincidence. I moved away from Linksys because their SOHO equipment line forgot about the Small Office and focuses only in the Home Office and Home devices. I have had my prejudices about other brands like Netgear, SMC, Allied Telesyn, Belkin and 3Com but I am reconsidering these brands. DLink and Linksys use nice cute (sexy) names to say the same thing in order to sell, focus on the technical specs and features. Shop smart use common sense.
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Sep 8 2008
Even after reading the poor reviews, I bought two of these because they had the set of features that I needed and I figured that D-Link would have worked the bugs out after a year in service. I was wrong. Both units had trouble simply storing port forwarding rules! I would fill out the form and hit save, and the new information would be gone. On both units, the very first save seemed to work, but subsequent saves had troubles. On the first unit, the second save worked after several attempts. On the second unit, it never did work. I decided to update the firmware on one of the units, because several reviewers suggested that was useful. I followed the rules, and the upgrade seemed to complete successfully. After the upgrade, however, my password no longer worked. So I decided to reset the unit to its default settings, using the reset button on the back. The IP address changed to its default value, as it should have, but the default user name and password do not work. Now I am unable to log into the box, and its default network settings are useless to me.. Unless you intend to use the default settings, or intend to change the settings just once, look elsewhere. The Netgear FVS318 seems to provide similar functionality.
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Posted: Aug 30 2008
We were very unsatisfied with this product. Linksys claims this product replaces the discontinued DI804HV, but it is lacking programming features of the DI804HV. In setting up the VPN's between our locations, there was no way to add an IP address to ping our remote locations. Without this ability, the VPN's were unable to stay connected. Without the ping the remote thinks the connection is not being used and shuts dowm. It took 3 phone calls to Linksys to confirm this. Do not follow Linksys's advise to replace the DI804HV with this router.
