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What's so amazing is that while my computer and its components get replaced every few years, this little workhorse has stayed with me through it all.Highly recommended. The signal is strong enough to get to my Xbox 360, which is downstairs and across the house. I've been using this router for years and it has never given me problems. The setup is easy and the maintenance is non-existent.
Fortunately, I haven't had to use their customer service, which I understand is not the best.My nephew-in-law works for IBM, recommended this router and has used it a lot in his work. I have used this router for a couple of years now and wasn't going to write a review on a discontinued piece of equipment. I highly recommend the brand. He swears by D-Link products and we both recommend them to people we know.So even though you are not likely to buy this router, as this model has been replaced by other newer models, do consider the D-Link brand as a router you would look into as a quality brand wireless router. But while writing up a review on the D-Link 2.4GHz Omni-Directional 7dBi Indoor Antenna ( ANT24-0700 ) that I recently purchased, I noticed that a few users had some poor experiences with this router.So basically I am just adding my voice to say that I've not had a problem at all with the DI-624 over the couple of years I've had it. In that time, I did download the updated firmware and that may have helped.
Sometimes, I one bar on my iphone with it sitting ontop of the router.Easy set up and everything, just doesn't work when set up. From the word go, this router has been painful. I have a 1-room radius from this piece of junk.
do yourself a favor and do not buy it, it constantly disconected.Customers support is not availble
I wanted to connect a computer directly to one of this guy's 4-ports, but it dropped the connection (or reset itself) so frequently, I got fed up with it and just treat it as if it is part of my DSL modem.So, if you have the idea that you could use this as your internal swotch, I urge you to reconsider that aspect. That only port is connected to another switch in my intranet. That is somewhat annoying, but since firmware updates seem to come to a closure, maybe you don't need that anymore :)I have only two RJ45s connected to it: one that comes from my DSL modem (I think it is marked on the device with "WAN"), and only one of the 4-ports that I connecto my my internal network.
I have Revision C.I am not about to say this is crap or that this thing is rock solid. Oh, yes, go get the latest firmware for it, and don't run without updating the firmware. Hmm.
Unfortutely, restoring your settings from a saved file does not work, so you'll have to configure the thing manually. Use it as a firewall, as a wireless router, a DHCP server, etc., but not as a general purpose switch togeher with the rest. This is a second tier wireless router.
It used to drop the network every now and then and resets itself -- I am not sure if it still does that after a couple of firmware updates.
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