Don't forget to enable 'Block WAN Ping' which is disabled by default.

This router suffers the usual D-Link products reboot problem. That is, it reboots every 5-10 seconds depending on your network traffic load. Since I use it for my home office, that means every 5 seconds. It is very annoying.

After upgrading, downgrading and re-upgrading the firmware and trying suggestions other have on the web, I found that my problem can be solved by turning off the wireless radio. But what good is a wireless router without a wireless radio?!

To add insult to injury, D-Link informs me an RMA is needed and that I would have to pay for the shipping cost to D-Link and I would be without a router for a week!!

I bought the router and was not expecting to have problems. Why should I pay for your mistake???!!!

P.S. Over Christmas I've used a Linksys, D-Link and SMC wireless in order of most expensive to least expesive. Ironically, I got the SMC for free and it's the only one that didn't give me any problems!

P.P.S. I bought the router because it had a lot of features such as DDNS to link up with DynDNS.org ... it never worked!

truly worthless

This D-Link router handled both of those aspects perfectly. I was able to get this up and running in a matter of minutes with my one wired computer, one wireless laptop, and cable modem connection.

It's been running for over 2 weeks and nothing has gone wrong, or been weird.

I had zero hangups and I think most people wont. I understand there are those that have special cases, but I think for the average user, this router can handle 98% of everything you throw at it.

The speed is fast, the range covers the entire house, and the price is nice as you can see. I'd recommend it to all.

Their sales page says the following though:

"Only D-Link 80211.g Xtreme G with enhanced 108 is able to remain fully interoperable and compatible WHILE running at 108Mbps,..."

Me thinks something is rotten in Denmark.

This 624 router initially behaved the same way and I had WPA turned on, I switched to WEP it still dropped connection and then I turned off all security and went for MAC filtering and it's been working fine ever since, now I run two P2P which have like hundreds of connections and it's still working

If all you do is web surfing, you will be happy with it, if you do P2P like I do, DON'T use WPA or WEP, DLink web site specifically says that having WAP or WEP increases your chance of getting dropped connection and I think this is true for all routers not just DLink

I have the C revision of the router with latest firmware and B revision of the DLink PC card G650 (108 Mbs)

The only drawback preventing a five-star rating is the WAP-PSK performance, which constantly drops the connection with an AirPlus Xtreme G PCMCIA card. The best connection speed is 36 Mbps, which is fine for Internet browsing, but the connection is so unstable as to make it unusable. The workaround is to let Windows XP manage the connection, but the current Microsoft drivers limit your connection speed to 54 Mbps.

The WEP security works great and doesn't seem to affect bandwidth much. Combined with MAC address filtering it should be sufficient in a neighborhood without other wireless connections, but hopefully D-Link will offer some updated firmware to fix the WAP-PSK problems soon.

Four calls to tech support got me nowhere, until the final, 2nd level support person I talked to suggested something interesting. I disabled the wireless capability entirely via the setup interface, and physically removed the antenna just to make sure. The support person said that if it then works without incident, that means something in the "environment" is sending a signal that is causing the modem to reset itself.

Well, sure enough, the router is 100% OK now. But, it's also now not a wireless modem. The culprit? In the next room, no more than 5 feet away - a 2.4GHz Cordless Phone, bought around the same time as the modem. If I leave it unplugged, or if I leave the wireless capability of the modem off, I'm OK. With both on, I get the drops.

So, you have two choices: avoid cordless phones or any other appliances in that frequency range (good luck - it's amazing how many appliances cause various radiation signatures), or alternately, you could buy a modem that DOESN'T ACCEPT RESETS FROM EXTERNAL WIRELESS CONNECTIONS! I recommend the latter. This modem has an obvious, fatal flaw.

I've always found the web-based configuration on D-Link routers and WAPs to be relatively intuitive, although it can sometimes be a challenge to find the specific option you're looking for. Lots of clicks of buttons and tabs in your web browser may be required before the desired option is located.

I'm not sure that a novice would be able to set-up the DI-624 on their own (or any WAP and/or router for that matter), but for me, entering the required information took just a few minutes and a couple of reboots of the device, and all was set and working fine.

Since this unit replaced an older WAP device, and the configuration was the same, existing notebooks and wireless devices reconnected with ease.

When used with the DWL-G650 PCMCIA (CardBus) adapter I purchased with this product, the performance was as advertised. Once it was all set-up, I did a few file transfer tests, and experienced performance on-par with 100 Mbit wired Ethernet... Truly incredible!

Better still, distance specs were truly terrific. The DI-624 is located in the garden level of my home. Performance throughout the house and my patio was outstanding. The connection was maintained perfectly, and speeds stayed high at every point. Surprisingly, it out-performed the D-Link DI-614+ it replaced (an 802.11b router/WAP) by a fair margin in both raw speed (as expected) and in distance (which I did not expect).

D-Link products don't always fetch the best reviews by magazines, but they've always served me well. Admittedly, D-Link's firmware and driver updates can sometimes introduce anomalies; keeping configuration back-ups is probably a good idea as a result (something the web interface on this unit makes easy).

In any case, this one's a winner in my book.

I decided to buy the faster DI-624. After three hours with three different tech support people, I gave up.

I wish you luck.