Good router???

[joshmroest]

I am thinking of purchasing a new router to replace my old Linksys. I am doing some research on the D-Link 926 combo sold at a variety of dealers for $50 after rebate. During my research, I have seen a number or review say that it requires a reboot for some odd reasons...

Does any one have experience with this router?

 

[joshmroest]

I take that as not having anyone having experience with it. I think I'm going to get it...I have credit to take it down to $35 after rebate. Can't beat it for that price for the router and card.

 

[jack1201]

Don't put your hand on new equipment so quickly. Take more research on Internet, see more review and news. Do not buy a new item because its price, especially it is very new.

 

[joshmroest]

I was weary about the 926 and restarting, so I I bought the D-Link 923 combo. It is the 54mb router with laptop card. Bought from NewEgg on the afternoon of the 24th, recieved it on the 26th. It was up and running in a matter of minutes! Awesome router!!! It hasn't restarted at all. My old router was a huge bottleneck in my internet. My old router averaged ~800kbps, my new one ~1200 - 1500kbps. Wireless range rocks! I can go to my friends house 1 bock down the road and still access it from there! So far, very impressed.

 

[joshmroest]

Still up and running without a reboot! It has PPnP options too for a VPN.

 

[brentman]

I have a Dlink 624 (or whatever the number is, having a real memory lapse today) at home and I love it. It works great and does everything I would need it to. Dlink also seems to keep up with supporting their hardware too, firmware updates and such.
:beer: to Dlink!

 

[joshmroest]

DLink rocks! I now have a cable modem, wireless router, and a gigabit switch by them. All of them work flawlessly!

 

[JackMDS]

Link to: Wireless What Should I Get?

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[lotus3500]

I bought the dwl 923 combo monday and i'm having problem with the cardbus dropping
the signal when i'm in the living room, the router is in the bedroom. The laptop is an old pentium 2, i don't know if it's the laptop or the card or my settings. But when i have the laptop in the same room where my router is i get 100% connection.

Now i'm having problems with the router updated firmware. Last night i download it
and upgrade the firmware to 3.2. Then i get random reboots and when i logged back
in i get this pop up message saying i have a major crash, is this the new driver dlink
causing it? I did tried rebooting and it's stil happening, so i took the router out, disconnect it and went to bios and adjust my bios to stock speed 2.2 ( i had it to 2.5 ).

It can't be the OC but i just want to be sure. Tonight i will try to install the router again
and see what's up.

I got the d link dwl-923 for $40 at best buy, if the thing won't work with my system
i will return it or sell it.

 

[tuteja1986]

dlink 624 are alright router and they do have a combo for with pcima wifi card. just don't get Dlink 524 , i have been hearing strange things about using bt with that router. I know Dlink 524 replaced dlink 624+ which was excat replica of Dlink 624. Anyways I recommend you getting either DWL-925 or DWL-926 or DWL-928.

Dlink 624 on ebay sell arround $28USD on ebay + $20 for 108Mbit G wifi card.

 

[joshmroest]

It's been almost 2 months without a reboot still. Boy, this router/wireless card is sweet!

 

[kleinwl]

I own a Dlink 524 and it runs fine...
AS LONG AS NO ENCRIPTION IS ACTIVATED

As soon as I try WEP or WPA encription, the signal starts dropping every 2 minutes. The support website has a big red banner that states that Encription may affect connection quality due to overhead.

hmm... Dlink-524 Sucks?

I'm looking for a new wireless router to replace it. But I don't know what to get.
The buffalo 54G units don't have much in the way of good reviews.... and I'm scared of being burned again by Dlink. Does anyone have any recommendations? (range isn't much of an issue... just stability...(and minimizing wires if possible).

(Yes I will buy another Dlink...if it is the best option...)

 

[JackMDS]

Let me challenge you.

Find one Entry Level Wireless Router that has no Bad Reviews?

On the other end, you would find positive reviews of the same Negative Routers as well.

However the way to overcome the fear is the pay few $$ more and buy the product of your choice from a vendor that takes back if it does not work.

I have used all of the Brand name of the Wireless Routers.

At the moment, I have few Installations under my supervision that include.

Netgear, Buffalo, D-Link, SMC, Belkin, and Linksys.

All of them are working normally we No problems.

All of them were set by people who know what they are doing and have No expectation that the Wireless (as an example) will Go from the basement to the 3rd floor passing 5 door and 4 walls.

However, I must indicate that these units are Not used for any ""Kinky"" things like BT, Game servers, etc.

So some one would say, but I want BT, and heavy gaming

Yeah when you need to move a Tone of sand, you do not use a Ferrari.

I.e. any one who wants to ?breathe? heavy should use a wired computer for this purpose.

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