| D-Link DIR-615 4-Port 10/100 Mbps Wireless N Router |
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Model: DIR-615
Brand: D-Link
Manufacturer: D-Link Systems, Inc.
Average Rating: 
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Total Reviews: 21
Form factor: External
Hardware platform: PC
Data link protocol: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, IEEE 802.11n (draft), IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g
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The D-Link Quick Router Setup Wizard quickly configures your new Wireless N Router to get you up and running in minutes. Our Setup Wizard walks you step by step through the installation process to configure your Internet connection,
The DIR-615 supports the latest wireless security features to help prevent unauthorized access, be it from over a wireless network or from the Internet.
Create a wireless network to share high-speed Internet access with computers, game consoles, and media players from greater distances around your home.
This Wireless N Router uses draft 802.11n technology with multiple external antennas to maximize the speed and range of your wireless signal to significantly outperform 802.11g MIMO devices |
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| Description: |
| Package Contents: Wireless N Router, 2 detachable antennas, CAT5 Ethernet cable, CD-ROM with Installation Wizard, power adapter The D-Link Wireless N Router (DIR-615) provides a better wireless signal for your network than existing wireless 802.11g technology. Upgrading your home to Wireless N provides an excellent solution for sharing an Internet connection and files such as video, music, photos, and documents. D-Link Wireless N products use Intelligent Antenna technology to transmit multiple streams of data which enable you to receive wireless signals in the farthest corners of your home. Not only does D-Link's Wireless N technology extend your wireless range, it also works with your existing 802.11g and 802.11b wireless devices. LEDs - Power, Status, WAN (10/100), WLAN (Wireless Connection), LAN (10/100) Minimum System Requirements - PC running Windows Vista, XP SP2, 2000 SP4 or Mac OS X (v10.4); CD-ROM drive; Network Interface Card; Cable or DSL modem; Internet Explorer v6 or Mozilla Firefox v1.5 Internet Access Requirements - Cable or DSL modem, subscription with Internet Service Provider (ISP) CE & FCC Class B certified Dimensions(WxDxH) - 4.6 x 7.6 x 1.2 Weight - 0.7 lbs. |
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| User Reviews (21 total): |
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stone ages product, December 8, 2007
By hY (Cary, NC)
couldn't believe still found such a product that is not user friendly. Setup is too confusing, setting that has been saved could be lost. Wireless function is very weak and not stable, dropping connection all the time, even with 100% signal shown all the time. Not recommend install the Network Magic, it makes the network connection worst. With one desktop as central, and 4 laptops on wireless, amazingly only some could connected randomly to wireless sometimes, could never figured out what was the problem.
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Solid Router, December 4, 2007
By Ryan B. Sutton
I was a little skeptical about purchasing this router, but so far we are extremely pleased with its performance. The setup was quick and simple as well. The router we purchased is the Version B2 and Firmware Version 2.20 (indicated on UPC label) so possibly an upgrade has been performed since the review of some of the other individuals. I highly recommend this version.
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This router sucks, December 4, 2007
By Anil Kumar
I bought this router and upgraded to latest firmware. It worked like a charm for 3 days. After that connection keeps droping for both wired and wireless every 2-3 hours. The logs are not helpful, samething about dlink customer support. I am only using Dlink router and Dlink Network card. I have FIOS as soon as switch to another router everything is fine. The configurations are also anoying if you have to change you have to wait 20 secs.
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Low Cost Draft-N Router, November 25, 2007
By AK (Cville, VA)
Comments in addition to all other reviews listed: There are two versions (A1 and B2) of the DIR-615. On the B2 model (I have not tested the A1) - you have the option of making all the changes on the router, saving them, and then rebooting later - instead of after each change. With WPA2 TKIP+AES encryption I am able to connect at 65Mbps to the Dell 1505 (DraftN) card in both N only and NG Mixed mode. This is a plus considering most incompatibilities happen when you have cards and routers from different vendors. Usually they only tend to work if you don't enable any encryption. The WAN and LAN ports are 10/100. You can configure via web browser (why anyone would use any vendor provided software is beyond me). The D-link website has emulators (with both versions) which all vendors should do - so you can see all the different settings/features available. While it's possible there are isolated lemons out there, thus far I have experienced none and am very pleased especially with the price I paid. ($50 on sale from Best Buy)
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Eh, probably not., November 10, 2007
By Sid Sowder (Boston, MA USA)
Hmmm. I don't know that I'd buy this one again.
I got it home, didn't read anything, didn't put any discs in, put it behind my Motorola cable modem, cloned my Mac's MAC address, and it more-or-less worked off the bat. You know a few resets but mostly I think it was the modem's fault.
I got it set up. DHCP with some reservations for two machines. Wired to my Apple TV, Wireless to a G5, PowerBook G4, Intel MBP, 2 Airport Expresses (in bridge mode just to stream music to them), and my iPhone. Seems great.
Everytime you change your port forwarding, it's a modem restart though. In fact anytime you change any configuration, it's a modem restart. It's horrible. Granted you don't do it alot, but occasionally I'll need to poke a hole in my firewall to let FTP in or what not. Bringing down my internet connection to do it is a bundle of suckage.
Worse though, connections are dropping. My G5 hasn't dropped yet, but the PB and MBP are dropping a lot. The logs only say "kernel: WLAN: MLME - Disconnecting (deauth) wireless client: ffffffffffff Reason 3" but without referring to the client with a MAC address or something I can't be sure what's dropping and why. I'll give dlink a call about this next week.
So would I buy this again, probably not. Are there better out there, who knows.
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Works well for me, October 17, 2007
By Nick (Nashville,TN)
I have had this router for about two months with little problems. You need to upgrade the firmware if you have not. The only draw back is that my laptop has draft n and my wife's does not. This limits my draft n speed. It is very fast when set up for draft n only. If you are considering a draft n router for only draft n not older wireless, I would consider the dir-655? I belive that one can get 300mbps. I only get 130mbps with this one. Good price though if price is a issue.
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What a journey!!!, October 7, 2007
By J. Martin (St. Louis, MO)
Until 2-3 weeks ago, I was very frustrated with this router. I purchased it from a retail store in June after my previous DLink (624) had completely failed. From that point on, I'd suffered from continuous connectivity loss. Our connection to DSL would stay up for 5 minutes - to 3 days (MAX). On a daily basis, I was restarting the DSL modem or router or both. I'd gotten to the point of purchasing my another modem (ISP wouldn't help from their side) just to prove the DSL modem. Finally, I called DLink customer support and was told of the firmware update 1.1 [...].
Installing this firmware update (for rev A routers only) has completely cleared my issues. Now the router performs as it should have the entire time. One bounce that cleared on its own since the firmware upgrade. Please do yourself the favor of upgrading ASAP upon use of this router!
Of course, it sure would have been nice to have this severity of quirkiness ironed out before final product distribution, but...
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It does not always stay connected, October 5, 2007
By O. Doolittle
Every couple of days I have to unplug it so it can restart, otherwise it won't allow any connections through the device.
Also, it requires a specific IP address to be typed in to the network settings if you decide to have ANY network security on. I am very proficient at network adapter configuration and I even had a tech guy come out and called the D-Link technical support. Having a specific IP address is not that bad as long as you don't plan to connect to other networks, in which case you have to change your settings on your computer to "Automatically select IP" for whenever you are on the other network, and you have to type in your IP address, subnet mask, DNS... etc every time you come home.
I wouldn't buy this again, even if it was a 1/10th of the price of the other N routers.
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Misleading and frustrating, September 30, 2007
By Book Brain
After doing much comparison of specifications I opted for this router. That was my first mistake. While Dlink says its routers are compatible with Macs, hours of effort could not get this one to work wired to my Mac desktop and wirelessly with my MacBook. Even more infuriating is that they promote they tell you that their so-called set-up wizard that is supposed to get you up and running in minutes. Newsflash...the setup wizard CD that they include only works on PCs and Unix computers. The Mac setup requires that you log on to the Web, input their IP address and follow a series of setup screens that leave much to be desired. For example, in their "Wireless Setup Wizard," they ask if you want to set up using a PIN or a Push method but do not explain what either of those is!!! Maybe if you are already an IT PhD this is a piece of cake but for the somewhat above average home tech, this stinks. The router is going back to the store tomorrow and I will instead shell out the extra bucks for the Apple AirPort Extreme.
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Drops connection a lot, September 8, 2007
By MCNB
We got it up and running with some hassles (we were forewarned by the reviews) but have been surprised at how often it drops the connection and we have to reboot it. If this keeps up, we'll have to get rid of it. Would not buy this product, we should have paid the $25 more to get another brand.
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I don't know whats wrong with the rest of you..., September 2, 2007
By soundmachinedream (minneapolis, MN, USA)
I just bought this at target, got it home and had everything hooked up and running within 10 minutes of opening the box. Yes I did have to disconnect and turn off my cable modem and what not first, but as soon as everything was plugged back in and had its power connected I was off and running. I am using a Mac, and there was no software or anything to install... I simply input the modems location in my browser and used the manual setup options available to me to get everything working, connect to internet, setup the wireless, make sure the firewall was up, check check check, easy peasy. The only thing I would like is a stronger wireless signal, which I could have got had I spent ten or twenty more dollars, but I'm cheap.
I would say this product is great, and I can't figure out why so many other people have been having problems with it...
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Avoid This P.O.S., August 29, 2007
By David Puffer (Boston, MA)
I bought this as an upgrade from my D-Link DI-524.
This was the first mistake. The software requires you to disconnect (2 computers and 3 gaming systems) from your current router and be directly connected to the modem. So I had to now manually add a connection to Verizon. Why you ask? So it could connect to the internet to check my connection and for me to install their software to properly configure the router. Why would I disconnect from a perfectly working connection?
So I did all that, and started to install. It took 3 restarts of my modem before the CD/SOFTWARE found a connection, not IE or firefox. When that was done, the software then asked you to hook up the new router. So I plug that in and then proceed with the software to "configure" the router. That did not work either. It took 4 reboots of the cable modem and 7 of the new router. So far, this new DIR-516 is off to a terrible start.
After an hour I finally got it to work. Did I mention that I work in IT for a living? It would have been easier to just swap out the router, put in the IP address and configure. That would have taken less than 3 minutes.
Anyway, back to this setup saga. The internet worked for 3 minutes. Then no pages would load, dropped connections, etc. The only good thing I've found with this router is that the wireless signal is strong.
Do not buy this product. It is not worth the headache. I have great luck in the past but D-Link dropped the ball with this one. Definitely returning this awful product.
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Great buy, August 19, 2007
By Oleg Golant (Bayonne, NJ)
Excellent product! Got my home network going and secured in minutes just following the clear instructions from the installation CD. I highly recommend this router.
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Even their own techs couldn't make it work..., August 16, 2007
By John Little
Perhaps the worst computer product I've ever owned. Spent nearly four hours with a D-Link tech, a tech from my ISP and a tech from my satellite provider. None of them could get this thing to connect to my modem despite trying every imaginable configuration.
Took it back to the store where I purchased it and traded it for an older and cheaper Linksys Wireles-G router that was up and running in 15 minutes.
Normally I like D-Link products, but this one is junk. Avoid this router like the plague.
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Very Bad Product, July 31, 2007
By dcwp
One of the worst electronic products I have owned.
Installation is more complicated than with most routers.
MAC filtering is set up bizarrely so that you need a PhD in engineering to use.
Drops connections randomly and requires frequent restarts to keep computers connected.
Have had to return two defective units in a couple of months.
When this thing works, it seems like a good router, but that is the exception, not the rule.
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No problem in 1 year of use, July 24, 2007
By ravi_man (El Salvador)
I have my dlink 615 router connected to my Zyxel ADSL modem. I have my slingbox, my vonage line and and a wired router connected to the dlink 615 router. Everything has been working flawless. I recommend the use of a surge protection for your modem and your router, be updated in firmware versions and dont install the magic software unless you have A LOT of ram.
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It is OK, July 23, 2007
By JaRa76 (NY, NY)
I think the router is not that bad, it needs definitively a firmware update, but for $ 65 (tax included) in Circuit City, it is the cheapest N router that you can find, and performs much better than a G router.
The 2 issues that I found are:
1) The annoying magic something software, it is amazingly ram demander (ovoid it as a pest) so use the Windows 0 configuration and use the ip address of the router to configure it properly.
2) The router itself, takes time to boot once you start your computer. (just in a PC, in Mac works flawlessly).
Anything else is really good for the price.
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Needs a firmware update, July 1, 2007
By Richard Wessley (Wichita, KS)
As the other reviews mentioned, the router is easy to setup (with wizards and everything), and I've used D-Link in the past and have had great luck.
Problems with this router:
1.) Loses internet connection. I'll have to login to the router via the web interface, and reboot the router to get the internet connection back up.
2.) The wireless won't always give a DHCP address. I ended up setting my computer to a static address to make sure I'd be able to get on with no problems.
I hope D-Link comes out with a fix for it.. soon.
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Loses connection to modem often, June 26, 2007
By David J. Navarre (Alexandria, VA USA)
Sadly, my router doesn't work all the time. When it's running correctly and I get a wireless-N connection from my laptop to it, speeds can be in 70-100 Mbps range, I'm very pleased. Unfortunately, it often loses it's IP address. It's relatively easy for me to correct if I'm wired to it, but it's annoying to have to use a wireless router mostly in wired mode. I may replace it if I there isn't a firmware solution soon.
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Save Yourself, June 14, 2007
By Samson
As part of installing a network in the house with both wired and wireless machines, I contracted a local vendor to setup this wireless router. After three failed attempts to make it work we switched to a competitors brand and had no problems. In the wired mode the router was fine, but the wireless was a disaster. Not only did the router not work, but the software that comes bundled with it crashed two XP computers on the network (leaving a Win 2000 system untouched -- go figure). This router caused me several hours of headaches and the technicians even more. If I could give it a zero, I would.
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