| D-Link DWL-G810 Ethernet to Wireless Bridge Adapter, 802.11g, 108Mbps |
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Model: DWL-G810
Brand: D-Link
Manufacturer: D-Link Systems, Inc.
Average Rating: 
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Total Reviews: 26
Form factor: External
Hardware platform: PC
Data link protocol: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g
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| Features: |
Up to 54 Mbps
Easy to Install. No Software/Driver Required
802.11b Compatible
OS/Platform Independent |
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| Description: |
| D-LINK DWL-G810 -- This simple but hugely useful device enables fast online gaming and Internet connectivity without wires. The DWL-G810 Xtreme G Wireless Bridgeconnects any Ethernet-enabled device, including Internet radio devices, digital media devices, desktop computers, and videoconferencing appliances to an existing 802.11g wireless environment. And does it without sacrificing performance! Operating system independent Dimensions - 1.6H x 3.2W x 3.5L Weight - 0.34 pounds Warranty - 3 years A must-have peripheral for multiplayer online console gaming! |
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Great for Repeating and Extending Wireless Network, December 17, 2006
By G. Bains (Union City, CA)
You guys who use WEP/WPA etc are idiots... use MAC address filtering, and you don't need to use login/passwords. the MAC address filter will stop anyone attempting to connect from getting a IP address at ALL.
Anyways, I use the DWL-G810 as a wireless repeater to extend the range of my wireless net work, works great. Out house is 4,800 sq ft, and it's difficult to pass wireless signal from upstairs on one side of the house to downstairs on the other side, and this device placed half way point downstairs easily extends the network.
No experience using it as a bridge.
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Item is EOL and has a bios error, September 9, 2005
By Jacob A. Manalan (seattle, wa United States)
This particular product has a bios error on the board which causes the connection to reset. The product is also past End Of Life with D-Link, so they provide no support to remedy this problem. Purchase at your own risk.
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D-Link DWL-G810 sucks, August 19, 2005
By boshea (Ann Arbor, MI)
This Wireless bridge completely sucked. The firmware was buggy never saved my information. It said it supported WPA which it did not have any fields for it. If i did get it to connect to my access point it would immediately disconnect. D-Link had always cool looking devices. This was a square plastic cheap box with a giant D on the front of it and a big annoying light on the front. This product could use a lot of redesign. Specially the firmware. I would not recommend for a wireless bridge.
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Does not play well with others, August 8, 2005
By cgansen (Chicago, IL, United States)
Stay away if you plan on using this with a Linksys router. Nothing I tried, over the span of two days, would get the thing to work for more than two minutes. Even putting the unit next to the router, 2 inches away, and it couldn't see it half the time, the other half it'd drop 90% of the packets.
Your mileage may vary, but note that this isn't the only review to highlight issues with Linksys routers.
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Defective product, August 6, 2005
By Mark Twain (West Coast)
I bought this device to connect my TiVo to my wireless G network. WPA encryption did not work. WEP didn't even work. Tried different firmwares but nothing worked. Don't look here if you want WPA.
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will not work with switch to be true bridge but...., May 8, 2005
By hovel pete (mclean, VA USA)
I plugged it into the wan port of my vonage linksys router and nat'
ed to it and it works great.
Double nat will work in most setups may have to add static route for some.
But yeah it won't work just plugging it into a switch I think the device only allows one IP. (dlink want's consumers buying one for each device I suppose).
If you have a spare dsl/cable modem,linux skills, or other nat'ing device you got yourself a real cheap network bridge.
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DWL-G810 + Linksys WRT54G, don't go there, April 4, 2005
By T. Hoffman (Centreville, VA USA)
I was hoping to use the G810 as a nice little bridge for my network to a ethernet device but I ran into a few problems. #1, The firmware is buggy. I had to flash the firmware a couple times just to get the configuration console back and when I called tech support, their answer was often, "Unplug the power, wait 10 seconds, and plug it back in." #2, The WPA encryption doesn't work. This may be linked to #3. #3, it works for a few minutes and then quits until you power cycle it. Maybe it has something to do with the interconnectivity between the Dlink and Linksys products, but I could get this thing to serve about 3 webpages before it quit with the encryption turned off, and never got it to work with encryption turned on. My overall take, save yourself the hassle and the 4 hours of your life you'll never get back and don't try to get this thing working with a wrt54g. It seems to me that this is a very poor product and you'd likely save time and money by buying an additional wrt54g, flashing the firmware with sveasoft, and running it in client mode as a bridge. That's what I'm going to try next.
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With an Easy Setup and 802.11g speeds, this baby ROCKS!, March 31, 2005
By Yavin 4 (moon)
I was able to follow the directions and get this puppy configured and setup without too much hassle (I had to change my subnet, not biggie since they show you how in the install guide thingy).
OK so after setting up I get to plugging it into anything and everything I can to make them online whever I want. note: I have a DI-624 wireless router that handles my wireless clients. I've "plug n played" this device in my Xbox, friends desktops, friends laptops, and even a network camera, and they all worked fairly easy once I got them their own IP address.
Plus the range of this combo-ed with the DI-624 make this an easy to choose Ethernet-to-Wireless adapter/converter simply because it works.
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Make a Switch into a Wireless Switch!, March 23, 2005
By Karen the Great (My House)
I use this to connect my Xbox, playstation 2, and networked media player, to my home network and the Intenret.
Basically I just setup this wireless bridge to be able to connect to my wireless network (connecting to a DI-624) which is connected to the Internet. Then this this wireless bridge plugged into one of the ports on my 5 port switch and my Xbox, PS2 and media player plugged into that same switch. So basically my switch is plugged into my network via this wireless bridge. I can use my Xbox online, my PS2 online, and my media player can access streaming audio online.
It's very convenient and I wish the two products I use (5-port switch and this wireless adapter) could be made into one product.
Either way, it works, and it works well. I never get dropped from my games, or my streaming music because of this wireless device, it's usually my cable modem.
I'd recommend this product for people with uses like mine.
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Not a Bridge in the strict sense of the word, February 16, 2005
By A. Shiekh (Tsaile, AZ United States)
Can only serve an IP to a single machine and not a network,
so NOT a bridge in the strict sense of the word.
If this were made clear, I would rate it 4 star, for the
firmware is often unstable, but otherwise it works well.
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Interchangable firmware, November 19, 2004
By Techniq
This may (or may not) void your warranty, but the firmware on this product (DWL-G810) and the AP product (DWL-G800AP) is interchangable. This may be more useful for people who purchase the AP/Repeater product and find it useless (since the repeater is only compatible with a few select D-Link products).
I purchased a DWL-G800AP by mistake, intending to purchase this product. I'm happy to say that, after switching firmware, I'm bridging my network at 54mb/sec. The web interface even says DWL-G810 on it. All thanks go to D-Link for keeping production costs low by introducting two identicle products and marketing them in different ways!
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Works Flawlessly, November 14, 2004
By Ivan (royal oak, mi United States)
I am not sure why most reviews are so negitive. Maybe people are having problems following directions. I have an entire D-Link wireless network and have not had one problem. 1 desk top, 2 laptops, printer, and Replay tv. D-Link makes a wonderful wi-fi network.
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As a sole wireless bridge it works OK, but has issues. . ., November 5, 2004
By SeattleGS400 (Seattle, WA)
After getting the DWL-G810 wireless bridge unit, I updated to firmware 2.15, ran it with WPA-PSK encryption, and it would drop the connection after 15-45 minutes of use. Then I tried it with WEP encryption, and it seemed to work okay IF there was no other wireless device on or near the network (i.e. just the wireless access point/router and the DWL-G810 device).
Compared to some competing Linksys products I've used, this D-Link DWL-G810 bridge seems to have a certain amount of lag in response--that is, if you want to open up www.cnn.com it takes about 50% longer to start loading up the page than would the Linksys wireless bridges (which to me, seemed like they acted like they were hard-wired to the router).
However, my biggest issue with the DWL-G810 is when another wireless-enabled computer was brought to the network, the DWL-G810 would mess up the wireless signal, and seemingly "jam" the AP/router's signal--so no computers could successfully connect to the wireless AP/router (I confirmed this phenomenon with Linksys BEFSW11 v.4, Linksys WRT54G v2, and D-Link DI-524 routers). If the DWL-G810 was disabled, all of the other wireless computers could connect to any of the aforementioned wireless AP/routers.
From the reviews, it seems like other users are having connectivity issues w/ this DWL-G810 bridge as well. Probably the most problematic unit I've dealt with from D-Link, as I've usually had pretty good luck w/ D-Link products in general.
Personally, I'd avoid purchasing the DWL-G810 wireless bridge, and going with a solid wireless bridge like the Linksys WET54G or the Linksys WET11 (or even the WAP54G, and configure it as a wireless bridge w/ the newer firmware available from www.linksys.com).
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DWL-G810 does not work as advertised, October 28, 2004
By Bob
I recently purchased a DWL-G810 and a DWL-2100AP in order to connect a Replay TV to my LAN and the internet. I had been accomplishing this same task for years with a DWL-810+ and a DWL-900AP without problem. The reason for the upgrade was to increase speed with the Extreme G feature and stream live video. The 2100AP set up easily and without problem but the G810 would not make a stable, dependable connection. I upgraded the firmware which only made the problem worse. I purchased a second unit thinking maybe the first was defective, but the second unit displayed the same problems. I spent hours on the phone with D-Link support(numerous dropped calls,many language problems with techs, but on the positive side short waits, and some very good techs)without solution to the problem, even though we went all the way to level 3 support. Their conclusion was that both units were defective. Personally I think the design is defective. In desperation,I purchased a Belkin F5D7330 Wireless Ethernet Bridge(even though I wanted to stay with D-Link, because I have all D-Link equipment in my network) and it connected flawlessly, right out of the box, no set up required.
I am currently using a DI-624 router, a DP 300U print server, a DWL-2100AP, and DWL 650 PMCIA card, all D-link products that work quite well, but the DWL-G810 is a bust and D-link owes us previously loyal customers an apology for putting this product on the market. That's my opinion.
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Worthless, September 9, 2004
By snuggles
This isn't a wireless bridge, it's a wireless jammer. It works for about 60 seconds, bridging flawlessly, and then it jams my access point hopelessly (it won't work again until the DWL-G810 is turned off for good and the access point is power cycled). And this is after flashing the unit with the latest firmware. The firmware that shipped on the unit was 2.13, which the D-Link website says is beta firmware and not to be used for anything but testing. Say what? They shipped that?
I should note that I tried it with WPA encryption. The unit may work better with no encryption, or perhaps with WEP. But those modes are unacceptable, especially in an 802.11g network, where you expect WPA as a matter of course.
Beware this unit, unless you're in the market for an 802.11g jammer.
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A Great Bridge for my D-Link Wireless Network, July 27, 2004
By Pincher (New York)
I can plug any Ethernet enabled device into this DWL-G810 and have it "networked" and able to browse the Internet. From my iBook running Linux, to my XBox, or a test PC out of reach of an Ethernet cable, it all works and is very easy to use/setup.
I suggest downloading the newest firmware before you even open the box or recieve it from the online store you purchased it from. Then get that firmware file (.bin file) onto the PC you will setup/configure the G810 with. Then you make sure the IP on your PC is within the same subnet as the G810 (192.168.0.XXX - this is all in the manual/quick install guide) and then access the G810 while plugged in with ethernet cable into the PC (192.168.0.30) and enter the username and password specified in manual. Then follow the instructions for how to update firmware.
After that you can run the setup wizard, which involves choosing your WEP, what AP to connect to, change password, and other essential settings. It is real easy as it walks you through everything. Then the G810 will restart. Then it should boot back up and work fine.
This is when you can unplug it from the PC you used to configure it and plug it into your XBox, PS2, Laptop, PDA, or anything else with an Ethernet connector.
I've even plugged this into a 5 port switch and had my XBox and laptop plugged into the switch with both of them able to access the network. This means even more things can be networked with just this one bridge.
Summary: Update the firmware, follow the instructions, and have fun.
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Too bad DLink dropped the ball., June 22, 2004
By Neil Martin (Kelowna, BC CA)
I am usually a fan of DLink products but they really dropped it on this so called bridge. This is absolutely not a bridge. If you are looking for speeds slower than 802.11b this would be perfect but DLink insists on using terms like "turbo" and "extreme" Two tin cans and a piece of string communicate more effectively than two of these relatively pricey units.
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Awesome Performance from such a Little Box!, May 21, 2004
By Ricky T. (Washington)
Having this DWL-G810 Wireless Bridge is a great addition to any network ready device. I have this wireless bridge configured to connect to my network with 108Mbps speeds, and I can plug and unplug this into any network ready device. For example I've plugged it into my Playstation2, my computer in the garage when I want Internet access, a laptop when my friend came over, and even my Dad's PDA with Ethernet adapter installed.The setup is rather simple, just follow the instructions, reboot the box and plug it into whatever you want. Just make sure it is within range, and sometimes fiddling with the antenna helps with the signal.
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Working perfect (with right settings!), May 14, 2004
By Techno Warrior (Bethesda, MD, USA)
OK. I have DI-624, DWL-G650 and DWL-G810.
I connected my KISS DP-500 Network DVD to the DWL-G810 and everything is working perfect, but you will need to work with settings for a few minutes.DI-624: Firmware - 2.42
Open System
WEP Disabled (#1)
TX Rate - Auto
Transmit Power - 100%
Beacon - 100
RTS - 2346
Fragmentation - 2346
DTIM - 1
Preamble - Short
SSID Broadcast - Disabled (#2)
802.11g only - Disabled
CTS - Auto
Super G Mode - Super G with Dynamic Turbo DWL-G810: Firmware - 2.12
Static IP
No Gateway Address (#3)
Infrastructure mode
WEP Disabled (#1)
TX Rate - Auto
Authentication - Open System
Super Mode - Super G with Dynamic Turbo #1 - First you can try with security settings disabled and later you can enable security.
#2 - Guys: broadcast SSID is NOT necesary! No security issues!
#3 - this is the key! Unplug both devices and it's done!
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Doesn't even work with other D-Link Products, April 5, 2004
By Mark L. Jacobs (North Potomac, Maryland USA)
I purchased the product to use with a ReplayTV unit. I followed the instructions for configuring it (a pain; see other reviews). While the DWL-G810 would "see" my D-Link DI-824VUP (router with wireless access point), it wouldn't connect to it even with the DWL-G810 within a few feet of the router, using all default settings, and encryption turned off. I found D-Link's customer service to be unhelpful and ultimately returned the product. My D-Link router works fine with my wired network, but I would avoid their wireless products.
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