| 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
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Total Reviews: 69
Operating system: Windows XP Professional Edition
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: |
| 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. |
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| User Reviews (69 total): |
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works well, August 11, 2008
By user
I had no idea which brand of router to get. I talked to many who suggested other brands, but I found this one for about $50, which I thought was decent. It doesn't come with many instructions, and so it took a few minutes (maybe 30) to set it up without installing the program that comes on the cd. I haven't had any problems, and I've had it for a month now. My connection seems fast, and it hasn't dropped one time.
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good choice for home use, August 11, 2008
By user (New Jersey)
I bought this router on the advice of a relative who has a home business. It works wonderfully, and I get great reception for my laptop on a different floor. The only problem I have, which may be the router, or could be AOL, is that every so often, I have to do a connective fix before I can use AOL for the internet. Otherwise, it was a great price for the quality of the product.
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Well, it DOES work., July 22, 2008
By user (Monvolia)
However, if you have a minimum of halfasscomputerskills, dump the setup disc and the idiotic instructions and just follow your instincts. Seriously, this is the WORST product I have ever dealt with as far as making a very simple setup seem like nuclear physics final. The paint by numbers installation disc is just plain moronic, poorly written, and totally confusing. It even instructs you to "install this disc in all computers on your network." HUH!!!!!!! There's nothing to install, there is NO install.....there's no friggin INSTALL!!!!!!!!!
The setup is simple, just dont read the Quick Start guide and for gods sake just take that disc and crush it with a hammer. Well after you copy the User Guide that is, and BTW did I mention the user manual was over 100 pages long!!!!! Gheez, its a 4 port wireless router, not a Cray computer.
No complaints now that I've finally got this thing installed. I'm enjoying a download speed of over 17M so all in all I'm pretty happy. The range is not what I expected but since I dont have a pool I wont complain about that either. One of the happy surprises in this D-Link package is free 30 day subscription to Network Magic. Makes setting up your home network a breeze. A 4 star product that loses style points for crappy documentation and confusing installation instructions. 3 WAPs
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nice little router... while it lasted., July 21, 2008
By user (Murrieta, CA)
Had this router for a little over a year. The router would occasionally disconnect so we had to reset the router and reconfigure everytime it did so. We mainly used this router for just regular interent access and stream videos to my OG xbox (wired). Just recently, we just started streaming through pc to xbox360 (wireless) which had no problems. However soon after, the router just completely took a crap. I attempted to reset the router mltiple times but it seems the router is completel done. It powers up but doens't supply interent access nor can I access its settings. I highly doubt this had anything to do with streaming videos. I had a good history with Dlink up to this router and I am disappointed in this router. And don't let the "N" fool you, it isn't as fast as the older Dlink wireless-g routers I had in the past. I plan to get a linksys for its replacement.
If I had to say anything positive, this router is DECENT for BASIC wired and wireless networking. However, look forward to occasional router/network "farts". So in other words, I would not recommend this router unless you are a total n00b in the wireless scene.
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Just doesn't work well., July 18, 2008
By user (NY, USA)
I give this thing ONE star ... I wouldn't even give it "1" if I could.
Let's begin with a little background. I've bought/use many D-Link products for home and my personal business and am very happy and 99.999% satisfied with its quality, performance, and price. I've used their A, B, G, & N wireless routers, network cards, and PCMCIA cards.
First, Setup. This may not be so crucial to some. When using the setup CD, you must have it connected to the internet for you to complete the setup - LAME for those of us proffessionals who practice setup on a stand-alone pc before putting it into production level. Manual setup - the worst menu driven system. It is similair to the old ones - yet some of the basics is annoyingly placed. But okay - whatever. Not a big deal.
Second, DHCP with assigned static IP's - I have a couple network printers with odd MAC addresses that begin with 08:00 for some silly reasons - this router don't like it and while it still assigns an IP, I have no control over it. A little irritating - but whatever.
The first and second would only reduce my 99% rating (nothing can be perfect yet) to maybe 90%... however, the following issue well - destroys any attempt at perfection it may have had.
The most important aspect for general users: It drops packets and has major issues with port 80 (your http/web traffic). After a few hours or if someone logs in, or a new wireless connection is made, you gotta reboot this thing to fix it. UNACCEPTABLE!!! I've updated the firmware and got a replacement with similair REV A. A totally unstable product release. It was like an alpha test. Minus 5 stars!
This was the worst product I've encountered from D-Link for a very long time. I use their "N" series NIC/PCMCIA cards with no problems. However, this was the first Wireless-N router I got so I gotta go search some more. Gonna buy two other brands and a different D-Link and compare.
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Destined for scrap heap, July 16, 2008
By user (Sacramento, California)
I had one of these for six months. I had to update the firmware to get the thing to work. After six months, it completely died. No lights, no nothing. It was covered under warranty, but I didn't save my receipt (I only file my receipts for major purchases), and I would have had to pay shipping costs and suffer the downtime anyway. The moral: You get what you pay for. Buy a good router and you'll be rewarded. Buy this at your own risk.
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Taking it back to the store, July 15, 2008
By user
I've worked with this for days and I and the rest of the house are SICK of it. I get it to work, then someone else comes along and it isn't working again. I have to reboot it, and re-reboot it, and re-re-reconfigure it and it is time to REFUND it.
Don't know if it's just the wrong revision of firmware or not. I've had wireless routers that worked before (built in DSL modem, but now I'm on cable) and this is NOT how the product is supposed to work.
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Not worth it., July 14, 2008
By user
I guess you do get what you pay for. A wireless N router for $49.99, great deal, right? WRONG. This thing is garbage. After calls to support and reading up on it I have Rev A of this router and I cannot speak for Rev B. I lose connectivity, sometimes in the middle of long downloads on the wireless G and also lose connectivity on the wired port. Updating the firmware from D-Links website locked the ting up and required some sequence of holding down the resent pin while unplugging and re-plugging it back in. Now whenever i need to re-boot it to regain connectivity to my modem all the settings are set to default, including the admin password and the wireless network settings.
This is getting returned tomorrow.
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Decent for the price, July 12, 2008
By user (Boston, MA USA)
I have to say that I was frustrated at first as I got a lot of disconnections and the speed was at the g ranges. I called dlink's support which made me tweek some of the settings. It is now stable at speeds of 75mbs to 110mbs which is better than G. My PC is about 30ft away from the router with two walls and one floor seperating the two so I assume that's the reason I don't get higher speeds.
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What a disappointment!, July 11, 2008
By user
After trying unsuccessfully to use a Lynksis router with Vista, I bought this product without doing any research 5 days ago. What a mistake! After 4 straight days calling customer service (both D-Link and my DSL provider who kept blaming each other) with people who you can not understand, they finally figured out I needed a firmware upgrade. After upgrading, it worked- for about 2 hours before it dropped the connection. Do not make the same mistake I did, avoid this at all costs! Customer service was terrible, with 20 minute waits to talk to a person.
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WHAT THE?!!!! UNBELIEVABLE!, July 8, 2008
By user (dsm ,ia)
I bought my 78 year old computer illetrate mother a laptop so she could communicate with her 17 grandchildren. She was very happy with it except for the fact that she's always tethered to the cable modem. So I decided to get her this router and had it sent to her house and to my surprise it was already up and running when I got there. I asked her who installed it and she said, "I did. I opened the box and followed the instructions."
I'm still scratching my head.
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2nd router failure, June 17, 2008
By user (USA)
i got this router twice it works great but both the times there is a hardware failure. i need to ship it back to dlink to get a replacement. Hope i get one that lasts for a while.
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Not for Mac OS, regardless what the box says, June 17, 2008
By user (Pasadena, CA United States)
I picked this up on sale at Office Depot yesterday, and I'm on my way to return it today.
The packaging says it works with Macs. When you open the box, you find a sticker covering the ports that reads "RUN CD FIRST!" When you open the CD sleeve, you find a note reading "For Mac and Linux users, please see the documentation on the CD in the 'Docs' folder." When you insert the CD and check the specified folder, you discover that the only thing in that folder is a PDF of the user manual, which mentions "Macintosh" only once, on the front page where it says it's compatible with Macintosh.
Somebody at D-Link must have thought this was a hilarious prank.
An email to their tech support department results in a message that informs you "The Installation CD that you got along with the product is only compatible with Windows OS. However, you can try to configure the router manually." There follows a lengthy series of steps to go through to "try" to configure the modem.
The only steps I intend to follow are the ones back to Office Depot, where I will return this modem for a refund. Then I will begin shopping for a modem made by a company that has some respect for the customer, or at least somewhat less condescending and snide tech support people.
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Couldn't be happier, June 11, 2008
By user (Ft Lauderdale, FL)
So I dumped my Netgear wireless G router -- as it was dropping wireless connections like crazy, and constantly needed to be rebooted to work.
I liked D-Link in the past, and decided to go with Wireless N as my new laptop supports it.
This router was cheap, and it seems most of the bad reviews are from people who just can't figure out how to setup a router (it's easy).
So, some people are ripping on the setup disc... I wouldn't know anything about it, I never actually touched it.
For anyone even remotely familiar with routers, this d-link is plug and play. Plug it in, and it works instantly. To set it up, ignore silly discs, and just log in directly to the router, D-Link has a wonderful admin panel.
Just go to 192.168.0.1 and no password is required for your first log in. Setup a password on it, then go to wireless setting, create a WPA Personal password for that (if thats what you need) and voila, you have secured, wireless internet, all setup. I had mine working completely in less than 5 minutes.
This router hasn't dropped a signal yet in over a week of use, with multiple wireless connections and all 4 wired ports being used (TiVo, playstation, personal computer, network hard drive)... Hasn't skipped a beat... fast internet.
So please ignore the "can't set it up" reviews, throw the install disc away and just plug your computer in and use the onboard admin panel (d-links is VERY good).
Highly recommend -- especially for the price.
p.s. - I don't know much about the range, I have a 1200 square foot condo and it's full bars through the whole thing - so no complaints, if you have a larger house, you may want to consider the extended range version of this router.
D-Link rocks!!!!
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Solution to damaged and lost firmware, June 1, 2008
By user
The version A of this router is not stable. If your network streams too much, the router can suddenly drop connection and lose its firmware. How can you configure the router without firmware in it or with damaged firmware? If you connect to your router and it said connection is limited or restricted, and you are not able to get in router's configuration page usually at 192.168.0.1 , which means your firmware is lost or damaged. There is a secret way that you have to spend almost one hour talking to their technical support in India to get. This issue happened to me twice, and I am tired of calling them deal with the same stupid problem. D-Link should come out better way to solve this problem instead of loading same program for non-firmware hardware. Router should NOT lose firmware itself. However, simply the best way to do with this today is the following.
Reload firmware to DIR-615 when firmware is lost
1. push reset button for 10 to 15 seconds, when power is on.
2. Go to property of network connection, configure internet protocol. set ip address to 192.168.0.99 and submast 255.255.0.0
3. push reset button for 10 seconds when power is off, and 20 seconds when power is on.
4. Go to 192.168.0.1 loading new firmware.
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The only router to get, May 29, 2008
By user (Jacksonville, FL USA)
D-Link is the only router brand I would ever buy. I have had more problems with Linksys over the years than you can imagine. D-Link just works. If you don't have time make it a part time job learning to be a networking expert, go D-Link
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Had to use it as a wireless access point, May 17, 2008
By user
The router did not work with my Bellsouth Westell DSL modem. Tech support tried but were not much help, only recommendation at the end was to update Firmware. After the software update, still no luck.
Then, I found on the internet that it may work as a wireless access point. Turned off DHCP, and turned it into basically a switch or hub. I am using this way and is working fine. Good signal strength and good throughput.
So far is working fine (in this mode), but just be aware you may have connection issues depending on your ISP and interfacing equipment.
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Stinks, May 17, 2008
By user (Atlanta, GA USA)
My neighbor's router works better than this pos. The connection is SO slow. And I can't watch videos(they just stop loading) unless I'm connected to the router with an ethernet cable (which obviously defeats the purpose of having a router). Do not buy this.
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Nice, fast router at a good price, April 21, 2008
By user (Houston, TX)
I finally upgraded my laptop to a MacBook with 802.11n built-in. Thus I eventually wanted to get a good N router at a decent price. I think $100+ for a router is simply ridiculous.
Well, when Apple upgraded the 802.11x drivers for Airport in the 10.5.2 update, my Linksys 802.11g router with the latest firmware was no longer functional, as it would not connect at all. I verified that it wasn't the computer, as I took it to several different hotspots (Starbucks, Apple Store, etc.), and I was able to get online easily.
It was at this point that i ran across this router at Target. Most places had it for $60 - $75. Target had it on sale for $49.99. Thus, even with the many bad reviews it has received, I decided to give it a test, and if I didn't like it, I'd simply return it back to Target.
Well, I must say that it has definitely worked as advertised. The included setup software is bad. I'm experienced at tinkering with router settings as an administrator, so the bad setup software (which didn't work on my MacBook completely) wasn't that big of a deal to me.
I connected my cable modem and Slingbox Solo to it. The high speed internet saw a dramatic speed increase on my MacBook. After doing several speed tests, I saw a 35-40% jump in my internet downloading. My Slingbox didn't work as easily as it did with the Linksys. The setup info for this router wasn't on the Slingmedia website. I contacted their tech support staff, and with the appropriate settings configured, she had it up and running perfectly within 2 minutes.
Also, some other reviewer said it didn't work well in a mixed G/N environment. I have to disagree with that assessment, as I also have a Power Mac G4 connected to the network via USB 802.11g adapter, and I'm still getting N transfer speeds easily.
Overall, it is a nice router at a nice price.
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my first wireless router, April 19, 2008
By user (North Carolina USA)
This is the first wireless router I've bought and installed. Intallation was very easy once I figured out I had to dump my broadband USB cable for an ethernet cable. I had it setup and running in less than an hour. I've always had a connection and never lost the connection while online. Also excellent price.
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