D-Link DIR-655 Extreme N Wireless Router

Average customer rating: 4.0

Complicated hookup; professional help has problems
Router is fast and functional
N doesn't work with Vista
Great Interface!
Excellent router

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D-Link DIR-655 Extreme N Wireless Router

Manufacturer: D-Link Systems, Inc.
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000LIFB7S

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Product Description

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! <BR> 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 Router to a cable or DSL modem and provide high-speed Internet access to multiple computers, game consoles, and media players. Create a secure wireless network to share photos, files, music, videos, printers, and network storage. <BR> With some routers, all wired and wireless traffic, including VoIP, Video Streaming, Online Gaming, and Web browsing are mixed together into a single data stream. By handling data this way, applications like video streaming could pause or delay. With D-Link's Intelligent QoS Technology, wired and wireless traffic is analyzed and separated into multiple data streams. These streams are then categorized by sensitivity to delay, so applications like VoIP, Video Streaming, and Online Gaming are given priority over Web browsing. This enables multiple applications to stream smoothly to your TV or PC. Delivering best-in-class performance, network security, and coverage, this router is the ideal centerpiece for your wireless network in the home or office. Backward compatible with 802.11g and 802.11b devices including game consoles and digital media players

Customer Reviews:

Complicated hookup; professional help has problems.......2007-06-08

It works as advertised, but instructions and phone help were inadequate. They don't tell you in the printed instructions that they do not recommend use of Microsoft Connect any longer; D-Link now uses another company software (good software) for the installing the device. The on-line help didn't know about certain instructions When D-Link person on phone help was questioned about changes spelled out in the inclosed instructions, he was unaware of them. If I hadn't had a "professional" installing this, it still most likely wouldn't be connected. The D-Link "help" was very courteous I would like to add.

If you really know what your doing and can "translate" the instuctions and, if needed, get help from a D-Link person who knows all the latest instructions etc, then the product is a good deal.

Router is fast and functional.......2007-06-01

I was able to set the router up quickly, and I found the router to be much more configurable than my previous D-Link router. I love it!

N doesn't work with Vista.......2007-05-31

Advertised to work with Vista, but only works wired, or in G mode. Only G works in Vista-32 or Vista-64. Technical service gave up after 2 days on the phones with them.

Great Interface!.......2007-05-29

This Wireless router has been a joy to use. It is easily mountable to a wall and is not an eye sore, especially with light colored walls and the white antenae and casing. It seems to have so many security settings I might consider feeling safe from hacker attempts (but I'm in an apartment complex, so I know better). The Range seems to penetrate walls quite nicely. I can't testify to outdoor use, but my internal PCI card on my laptop just loves this thing, and to give it full bar performance.

Oh, and when draft 2.0 came out? Immediate firmware upgrade, no waiting, just get it done! It also has a lot of customization of ports, a wide range of application specific uses.

Ok, now for the few negative things, I'm having trouble getting Folding@Home to receive server updates through the firmware. Since it uses http port 8080 for access, it shouldn't have any trouble, but yet it does. I can't find anything on the d-link forum about this either.

The Network magic software is pretty much worthless unless you have XP Home, although I did like how it interacts directly with the d-link router. One BIG negative about this software is that it takes over all print sharing and folder sharing from Windows XP. So unless you kill the software (which always tries to stay running in the background), you can't share a printer or folder the old fashioned way. It won't find it.

Excellent router.......2007-05-29

I bought this router after buying a MacBook Pro which has built-in 802.11n capability (after buying the n "enabler" from Apple for $2). I wanted to take advantage of the fast wireless speed as well as the gigabit Ethernet interface on the MacBook Pro. Oddly, Apple's much more expensive Airport with draft n capability does not have a gigabit Ethernet interface, so the D-Link Extreme N seemed like a good choice as it had all I was looking for.

This product did not disappoint. I got all of the speed I was looking for plus the extra range I needed for a difficult spot where I needed the signal to go through two cinderblock walls. It also gets a stronger signal to two floors above the router location. Configuration was easy and the router has been very stable for the several weeks I have been using it. I particularly like the detailed status and logging information.

On the wireless side, I'm currently using the router in a mixed g and n setup. I had some reliable wireless b cards that I would have continued using, but there was a problem. Security is not a major concern in my location, so I would have continued using WEP except that it is not supported in the draft wireless n standard. I moved to some D-Link g cards that were on sale and they perform very well and I can now use both WPA and WPA2 simultaneously with this router. Mixing b with n would probably seriously degrade the n performance anyway. As it stands now, my wireless n performance is excellent where the signal strength is strong. My Internet download speed is typically close to 27 mbps on a wired connection and I get the same real throughput on the n wireless. Even g does not do that in a real Internet benchmark.

The router comes with a cat5 cable which should not be used for a gigabit connection, so be sure to purchase any cat6 cables you need as I did. I also purchased an Intel gigabit Ethernet card for my Windows PC to enable fast transfers with the Mac.

I upgraded the router firmware a few days ago and it works fine, but the only problem was that it would not load my saved configuration, so I had to input my custom settings again. This was an annoyance, but also a flaw that I saw with my old DI-624 router. There are likely to be more upgrades especially because the n spec has not been finalized.

The wireless n works fine with the Mac. The other issue to note for Mac users is that the router's web-based configuration application does not seem to work with any of the browsers I have on my Mac, so hopefully you will have access to a Windows PC to do the setup. (Presumably a Parallels Windows PC on the Mac will work, but I have not tried that yet.)

Bottom line, this is the best consumer router I have used.

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