| D-Link AirPlus DI-614+ Wireless 22 Mbps Broadband Router |

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Model: DI-614+
Brand: D-Link
Manufacturer: D-Link
Average Rating:
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Total Reviews: 277
Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 3.5, Windows NT 4, Windows NT 5, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Server, Windows
Form factor: External
Hardware platform: PC
Data link protocol: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b
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| Features: |
Up to 22 Mbps and 802.11b compatible Advanced Firewall and Parental Control Share Internet with built-in 4-port switch 256-bit data encryption |
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| Description: |
| D-Link, the industry pioneer in wireless networking, introduces another performance breakthrough in wireless connectivity - the D-Link AirPlus series of high-speed networking products capable of data transfer rates up to 22 Mbps. And with the new AirPlus DI-614+, D-Link once again sets a new standard for wireless broadband routers. The AirPlus DI-614+ combines the latest advancements in 802.11b silicon chip technology from Texas Instruments and robust firewall security features. The DI-614+ is ideal for those creating their first wireless network, as well as for more advanced users looking for additional management settings and policy-based content filtering. Filters can be set based on MAC address, IP address, URL and/or Domain Name.A simple yet intelligent, Web-based setup wizard makes the DI-614+ easy for any user to quickly and securely connect computers to share a high-speed Internet connection, files, resources, games or just to communicate. An integrated 4-port switch allows direct connection of up to four computers. Several wireless clients can also securely connect to the network using 64, 128, or 256-bit encryption. The D-Link AirPlus DI-614+ is the ideal networking solution for small offices, home offices, schools, coffee shops and other small businesses that cater to the public, or home offices, and dormrooms. |
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Works like a charm!, May 18, 2003
By unknown
The router works great. The first night all was well. The second night my husband, who has the wireless NIC, couldn't get a signal. At this point we downloaded the firmware (just follow the instructions in the Q&A section of D-Link), and we were back in business. BTW, our offices are on two separate floors. Not a problem for this wireless router. We're using this router in unison with a Linksys modem. No troubles with the equipment. The trouble was with our broadband provider, but that's another story.
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Works exactly as advertised, May 13, 2003
By jsprag
Did a swap-out with an SMC Barricade non-wireless router. Change was fast and painless. Default configuration of the D-Link and the built in wizard was enough to get me back online in less that five minutes.Web interface is very easy to use and full of options. Wireless connectivity with a D-Link card in my laptop was very good with high transfer rates and strong signals.
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integrates seamlessly and yet very easy to install, May 12, 2003
By Scarface70a (New Albany OH)
Installed it almost without even reading the instructions. Also bought the 520+ for the PC and 650+ plus for the laptop. Also upgraded to the latest firmware 2.18 seamlessly to get to 4X(did not bench mark though). Just one note, I had to reset the router for the first two days because of lost sync with the elements in the network. (Probably due to my hastiness for without even completely reading the instructions.) But since then no problems and dropped connections. I can also connect to VPN connection of my work. Remote configuration of the router through a browser is very convenient. Perfect. Quality and even esthetics are good.
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Great Backbone to my Network., May 6, 2003
By 5000
I have this router as mu backbone of my home network and it has been running smoothly since the first install. I can always count on my 614+ to be up and running, and when there is a new firmware update it takes it with no problems and new features are added. I love this product. I bought one for my brother in texas also, and he says it never gives him any problems.I also have a wireless repeater (DWL-800AP+) that repeats this signal so my basement has connectivity to the Internet via a DWL-810+ hooked up to a switch. The setup was painless, it has been working since, and every little tweak, or setting I change I've never had this router ... out on me. I've had this for about 6 months now. A++
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The Perfect 802.11b Wireless Router for the Home., May 1, 2003
By Jack U.
Seriously, this product has it all. The router's configuration is perfectly easy to use, simple to understand, and robust enough to please almost every user.Security Features: 256-bit WEP - everyone else is only up to 128-bit MAC filtering - Allow only the PCs you want by their MAC address onto your network. (very easy to setup as well) Disable SSID Broadcast - It's like not listing yourself in the phone book. You can turn the wireless signal power way down to only cover your house with access, or just that room, or pump it up as high as it goes so it covers your backyard too. The wireless speed this router provides is amazing. All my friends are jealous that I can get 10Mbps of real throughput. Everyone knows that 11Mbps rating will only get you about 5Mbps max of real throughput. This 22Mbps stuff from D-Link gets me 10Mbps real throughput. That's twice as fast! The range on this is perfect as well. It travels from one room to another through walls just fine. I get signal in my basement first floor AND second floor when I place this router on the first floor with the antennas in a horizontal position. This is one of the least expensive 802.11b wireless routers out there, it goes the fastest, is very secure, and works great out of the box.
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This product did not work, May 1, 2003
By unknown
I bought this router and could not get it to work. Then the Hardware failure light M2 came on and I requested a replacement. The replacement unit had the same problems and I returned that one too.
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not good, April 28, 2003
By rabidx (CA United States)
The wireless part of this router is really bad. At first, I didn't know what to make of it.. I had a the D-Link DI-614+ wireless router, a D-Link DWL-650+ PCMCIA wireless card for a notebook, and a D-Link DWL-520 PCI wireless card for a desktop. Initially starting up, it was promising. However, it turns out that the router gets messed up internally if you leave it on for about week or so, you'd have to keep rebooting it..(when you log on to administer the router, it gives you a messed up screen with mis-aligned text -- fixed after rebooting the router) No idea how to explain this eloquently. The DWL-650+ PCMCIA card: when I assign a WEP encryption to my wireless network, the router would not accept the WEP code from this card. I've since installed a different wireless router, and the WEP works fine. The DWL-520 card: Once in a while, the router somehow "looses" track of this card. None of my computers on the wired network could see or ping the computer running on this card. Mystery... The router also does not transmit very well. I moved my computer about 50 feet away from the router, and the signal becomes really bad. I've spent a lot of money trying to set up a wireless network. After I've replaced the D-Link wireless router with a different brand wireless router, everything works much better. I recommend the Netgear router. Cheers.
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Not recommended, April 22, 2003
By Jeff (San Jose, CA United States)
I purchased this wireless router hoping to replace my 3 years old LinkSys router. However, after playing with it for several hours, I decided to return it because of the following (using firmware 2.18):1. MAC filtering: Can't make it for wireless only. Once it is enable, it is for both wireless and wired network. This is the MOST annoying part. I mean, why do I want to enable MAC filtering for my wired network??? 2. Router configuration: Very primitive comparing to my old LinkSys. 3. Enable/Disable Wireless: It didn't really disable the wireless network(physically). It shoulded be called "allow/deny all" access instead. Once the wireless is "disabled", it does still broadcast the SSID. 4. No way of disabling SSID broadcast for security reasons. Finally, I have to give DLink credit for making upgrade firmware so easy (Web base), which is a big improvement comparing to my old linksys router.
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Poorest product I had purchased recently, April 19, 2003
By geocash2 (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Being in charge on a mid sized ISP I have purchased thousands of dollars of network cards, routers and related equipment. In a moment of weakness (Store was out stock of brand I wanted) I purchased the D-Link AirPlus DI-614+ router and matching PCI card. They are installed 1 floor apart and about 10'of distance. I consistently adverage a signal strength of 45-55% and see packet loss of at least 10%+ consistently. What this means is that my T-1 connection is reduced to about dial up speed if I am lucky. I called their 24 hour phone support to ask for assistance and they said that their product sometimes has problems between floors and recommend that I buy a repeater router. They got to be kidding, performance of 3% of rated claims and they expect me to purchase additional equipment from them.
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Airport Card / Ibook & Wireless PC Lovers Dream!, April 15, 2003
By biolaman (Mission Viejo, CA USA)
The D-Link 614+ 4 Port Wireless Router is the best router on the market, hands down! Don't just believe me, go to techtv and look at the review yourself. The D-Link Router is very easy to setup and is friendly to wireless apple airport cards and other pc pcmcia wireless cards for laptops. I was up and running in 10 minutes. The only issue, and I stress only, is that when you plug this router in and start your computer up, you may need to disconnect your cable modem or DSL and reconnect it again. Your computer needs to know that its ip changed from the direct cable modem connection to a firewall router. Do it a couple of times at least and it will work. I'm confident that was the problem some users had on this review. The did not disconnect their cable modem and router, reset them both, and reconnect them while the pc was off. 5 out of 5 and for the $, its the best item on the market.
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Major problems abound, April 15, 2003
By .Net Entrepeneur (Springdale, AR United States)
Even with their most recent firmware release my problems are still present.I have 2 PCs with their AirPlus PCI nics and a laptop with a thirdparty wireless nic. My top of the line Toshiba laptop w/ integrated wireless nic constantly experiences network outages. The signal strength and quality is excellent, yet the network drops at least once a minute and then reconnects shortly thereafter. I even went as far as to reinstall the O/S. The PCs with the AirPlus nics seem to be working great though. They seemed to have fixed the bandwidth problem and I am finally getting some decent download speeds. If you plan on using a third-party nic, do not buy this router. This item should never have been released with the major problems that it has/had. Too many people have had issues with this router. When I contacted tech support last time (which was useless), and I told them I was using their feature to not broadcast the SSID, the gentleman asked "why". I told him because its a great security feature and I want to use it! He said you dont need that and basically told me not to use it, not explaining why when I asked him. I went as far to tell him, you provide a feature and you don't even support it? This feature does not work. I will personally never buy another D-Link product. I don't even want to sell this item on E-Bay because I don't want to stick someone else with this inferior product.
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Works great, just plug and play!, April 14, 2003
By Indypacecars.com (OAK HILL, VA United States)
No problems setting up the router, just plugged it in (in place of our existing 4-port D-link DI-704) and it worked beautifully. We have Cox cable modem service with a static IP address so I don't know if it works with DHCP (see other reviews). Signal strenth is great, 100% even downstairs. No compatibility issues with my Belkin 11mbps pcmcia card. Haven't tried WEP yet so I can't rate that either.
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Rated best wireless router by PCWorld, April 13, 2003
By _elway_ (Wellington, KS United States)
This router is by far the best. In a recent PC World test, it was one of the cheapest and fastest available. If you connect with a AirPlus wireless card (like I do, I bought the two in a bundle), the speeds and ranges are extraordinary. The interface is easy enough for a novice to set up or detailed enough for people like me to tweak everything they want. You can block/allow virtually any kind of access many different ways (IP, domain name, MAC address, etc). I can't say enough about this product. I bought it a semester ago and it still is one of the best. Don't delay, espically with this price!
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Buy all D-Link Products!, April 11, 2003
By rankingofficer (El Toro, CA)
I have 4 D-Link products. A DI-604 (router), DWL-650+ (laptop card), DWL-520+ (desktop adapter), and this DWL-900AP+ (Access Point). I love them all.The installation of each product is easy to do since they each have good documentation and even a setup wizard on some. Configuring them to work with each other is super easy since they pretty much work out of the box with each other. Makes sense. As far as this 900AP+ goes I am quite impressed on the actual range I get and the strong signal that travels through 2 walls to get to my desktop and I still get above 75% signal strength. The ease of use of this Access point is a huge plus since all you need is a web browser (internet explorer) and the password. Setting up 256-bit WEP makes me feel safe and only when you have all D-Link can you have this high of encryption. Otherwise you just have to settle for 128-bit WEP. I was impressed with this access point and it has lived up to what it is supposed to do, so I am very pleased. All the other D-Link products work flawlessly as well. Also the tech support for D-Link picked up pretty quick the one time I called them. They were also very helpful in their quest to find my answer.
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DI614+ problems and tribulations, April 11, 2003
By Phoghat (Elmhurst, NY USA)
I bought the D-link wireless router to go with my home office net and it workd well except for a mechanical, not computer, problem. I hooked everything up to directions and when it became necessary to plug the Cat5 cable into the router it wouldn't fit! The cable keeps popping out of the jack. Thinking it was just a bad cable, I tried 5 others and got the same results. After calling support, I was given an RMA and they shipped out another unit. Happily I hooked it up, but I had the same problem. I called support again and have another RMA. I also happened to see a tech in a large, well-known outlet store, who said he uses D-link routers and has never had a problem. He asked me to bring it in for a free inspection and that's just where I'm heading today. I'm using it with 2 desktop pc's and an Axim 5 with a CF card WiFi adaptor and it works well when the cable stays put. I get a message on my desktop that a network cable is unplugged, then another that says cable is reconnected. Try before you buy!
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Easy to Use and Works Very Well in My Home., April 9, 2003
By burningflys (Provo, Utah)
I was able to install this with no problems at all. I had one wireless PCI card adapter (DWL-520) in my desktop, and one CardBus adapter (DWL-650+) in my laptop. Everywhere in the house I was getting a strong signal with no packet loss. I was impressed with this router because it has such a low price, I thought I might get a lemon, but I gave it a try anyway. I sure was glad I did because that same night I bought it I had it up and running perfectly. It was easy to secure my wireless connection, configure the firewall, and all that stuff.I since then sold this router to move up to 802.11g speeds. I got the DI-624 because D-Link had done so well with this router/AP combo. I made another good decision thanks to D-Link. I recommend this router if you are on a budget and the DI-624 if you want the 802.11g stuff. One thing to keep in mind is that it is a good idea to keep the same brands of products. So if you buy this router buy a card that goes with it. You will find it easier to install things and the speeds are better when you have D-Link with D-Link. Makes sense huh?
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Don't buy any D-LINK products, April 6, 2003
By Chinese reader (Denver, CO United States)
I bought DI-614+ wireless router and DWL-520 NIC card. The PC that has the card is only 40 feet away from the router but it cannot receive the signal or very week (sometime got connected and disconnected rightway. This means my installation should be correct). The specs of both products say the indoor working ranges are more than 300feet.Customer service from D-LINK is horrible. Each time you call for help you have to wait for more than half an hour. I have tried to call support agentsfor 3 times. Each time I got aome one for help after long long waiting but none of them could give me a solution. Generally, it is a pain to buy D-LINK products.
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Working Perfectly for 5 Months Now ..., April 5, 2003
By motobiker (San Fran)
The install was easy, the setup was simple, and performance has been better than great.I have Earthlink DSL (PPPoE) and this router connected within about 2 minutes of when I set it up, and has only dropped my connection once or twice since then. And even then the drop only lasted about 10 minutes. I think this was caused by my ISP when I was assigned a new IP address and the router had to update the info to reconnect. I have been using 128-bit WEP since I bought it 5 months ago and everything has been working fine. Collegues of mine have come over every now and then and they can connect to my wireless network just fine with their name brand cards as long as they have the correct WEP key. I update my router with new firmware every now and then, and almost every time it adds more features or speed. Like fairly recently the speeds have increased due to the 4x firmware D-Link released. I also upgraded the firmware on my DWL-650+ and was able to acheive those higher speeds. Transfering files between my laptop and backup server takes less time now. Since I've bought this I have never had a reason to reboot/reset it except of course when I upgraded the firmware or changed some vital settings. I am pleased with this purchase and believe I will be for years to come.
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errrrr. sick!, April 5, 2003
By William Lau (Stockton, CA United States)
I used to be such a big D-Link fan, but they quickly lost a loyal customer in the last 2 months. The DI-614+ is [so weak]. I keep getting packet loss on the wired LAN side, Windows XP would complain for a brief moment that the network connection is offline, and of course the matching LED on the router would go off too. Wireless part is even worse. Packet loss, random reboot loop, you name it, it does... This is my last D-Link product.
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Worthless-buy something else; ANYTHING ELSE, April 4, 2003
By superogre (La Crosse, WI USA)
I bought a D-Link 614+ access point to network two rooms together that are about 15 feet apart (both the access point and computer were placed on the closest possible walls) and I absolutely could not get a reliable network connection. Any large downloads would crash it; the Symantec security scan crashed it every time I tried; running any level of WEP crashes it within minutes. In short, this is the absolute worst piece of computer hardware I have ever purchased, including certain things that didn't work at all. At least those I knew didn't work, so I didn't need to worry about half-operation like with this vile piece of garbage.
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