By: Reinier (27-Sep-08)      Experience with product: 3 Weeks

Strengths:	Very Easy Setup (use CD if your new or plug it in and goto 192.168.0.1 if you know what your doing), Feature Rich, Fast Speed, Doesnt drop signal while downloading with Bitorrent, Bargain Price
Weaknesses:	Overheats if you place it down on your desk horizontal causing the router to drop your internet connection (set it up Vertical using the stand they provide to stop this from happening).

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It works wonderful with Encore ENLWI-N PCI Adapters which cost 30 bucks compaired to D-Links PCI adapters that cost 80 bucks just make sure to download the newest software from Encores website. When I first set up the adapters I was only getting a Signal of 57-63 with the router horizontal on the desk but when I put the router standing up vertically and pointed the tips of the antennas towards the rooms where I had the wireless adapters the signal went from 57-63 to 90-100 and I saved 50 bucks over the people who paid for the D-Link adapters lol.Remember to Disable QoS as well, it cut my bandwith in half and causes extra stress on the Router so its not really worth it.

By: Darr (20-Jul-08)      Experience with product: 30 Days

Strengths:	For many years DLink has sold dozens of models of excellent 802.11a/b/g routers and access points, amassing a stellar reputation with consumers world wide.
Weaknesses:	40MHz-wide 11n channels in the 2.4GHz band will take up channels 1 through 10, limiting those previously sold b/g devices to channel 11 (in the americas and japan). In urban areas that = interference.

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Hopefully in the finished specification the IEEE will come to their senses and allow 40MHz-wide 802.11n channels only in the 5GHz UNII band, where there are a currently a dozen non-overlapping channels instead of only 3 as in the 2.4GHz ISM band. IMO, Linksys and DLink are urinating in the public pool by marketing any 2.4GHz-only 11n devices. (of course it's cheaper not to include a 5GHz radio too!) If the IEEE decides not to allow 40MHz-wide 2.4GHz channels in the final spec, the DI-655 will not be capable of reaching even half the currently advertised 11n speed.

By: spiralsun1 (01-Jul-08)      Experience with product: 3 Months

Strengths:	LOVE the awesome blue LED's!!! Finally--LED's that are bright enough. I am ashamed to say I bought it partially for those... When it works, it works awesome.
Weaknesses:	If you have Vista computers and an XP computer hooked into the wired plugs get ready for HEADACHES!!

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I have 3 desktops and 2 laptops hooked into the router. 2 of the desktops have Vista and work fine. The 3rd desktop and the 2 laptops (wireless on laptops) have XP. The XP desktop does NOT WORK. The wireless laptops both work. VPN tunneling to work at home works fine. The one XP desktop has been offline for 2 months and I still cannot get it to connect to the internet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm giving it 5 stars for the blue LED's and the fast wireless anyway.ATTENTION!!!Update!!! I got it to work!!! The XP computer had been hardware upgraded and old driver remnants kept it from working. I uninstalled the Ethernet card in hardware manager and then re-started the computer. Problem solved. I LOVE THIS ROUTER!!!!

By: jj1100 (13-Apr-08)      Experience with product: 3 Months

Strengths:	None
Weaknesses:	Money for nothing

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I have read the reviews on this router, and I thought that some of them may be because of their tech inexperience, but after my personal experience, I found differently. I bought this router and the D Link Exteme Destop Adapter DWA552 and attempted to install myself. After it wouldn?t install properly, I called up the D Link customer support number, and they walked me through many steps attempting to resolve the problem. Finally, they said that I must have a defective adapter and to return it to the Circuit City store where I bought it (Little Rock, AR). The store was out of the above adapters, so I bought a D Link DWA 142 adapter. I was also unsuccessful in getting any wireless reception for my remote computer. I went back to Circuit City to ask someone I bought this router, along with the D Link Xtreme Desktop Adapter DWA552. I could not get my remote computer to what I was doing wrong. I allowed a salesman to talk me into paying for Firedog (their tech installation people) to come out and do it themselves. My thinking was yes, I'll have to pay more ($99.99 for the router and $79.99 for the remote), but at least I'll get my wireless service set up correctly. After several missed calls (they were scheduled, but didn't show up), I went back to the store in person to protest. The store where I bought it was not the store who supervised Firedog, so I was routed to another store (in NLR, AR). The store manager assigned a new tech person to come out and do the wireless installation. When she got out, she brought different routers and adapters, this time wireless G, which she said was more stable. She got the wireless set up going, but after a few days, it didn't work. I called her back and she came back out and again got it going for a few days, but afterwards it quit again. I called her back and she said that she was fired from Firedog, so I started all over again, going back in person to the second Circuit City store to complain to the store manager. He then sent out a different tech person with the original Dlink N router and adapters. The new tech could not get the wireless system working. He said I had a virus that needed to be taken care of before the wireless could work. He then took both computers back to wipe down the hard drive and clear the viruses (and charged an additional $99.99). In a few days he brought the computers back and got the wireless system going again. In another few days it was not working. I went back to the second store and talked to the store manager about this. He was going out of town on vacation so he assigned my case to an assistant, who simply said to call Firedog and schedule a revisit. After waiting for a week for the tech to come back on the appointed day, he called me about 15 minutes before he was scheduled to be at my house. He said his Firedog supervisor wouldn't allow him to come back out unless I paid for another visit. I refused and went back a week later when the store manager was to return from his vacation. After talking to him in person, he said that he would call the Firedog supervisor and get it straightened out. He took my phone number and said that he would call me that night. A week later after not hearing from him, I went back to the store (this is getting old by now), to ask him what the status of my wireless installation was. He said that the store could no longer send out a tech person because they had sent tech people out 4 times and that they had fixed the situation, and that it was not their fault that it quit working each time. I pointed out that I had spent approximately $230 for the equipment from Firedog, $170 for the installation, another $100 for the removal of viruses for a total of approximately $500, and I had nothing any better than before I visited the store to buy the equipment in the first place. In other words, I would have been better off to keep my $500 in my pocket and not go through all the hassle from Circuit City. The store manager said that he couldn't do anything more to help me unless I paid for another trip. I am certainly not going to pay anything to Circuit City, either for services they are supposed to render, or will I ever buy anything from Circuit City again. This experience has jaded my opinion of Circuit City. Buyer Beware.

By: annon (03-Apr-08)      Experience with product: Not specified

Strengths:	Gigibit ports, powerful range, low profile, not bad looking (I like the blue LEDs!), a lot of options, fair price
Weaknesses:	Setup Disk didn't work; issues with mixed-mode processing (n,g,b); a lot of details to manage that if you don't read the manual, you can get frustrated easily.

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This is a very good router for the price (I paid about $118). It replaced an older D-Link GameLounge router that blew out a wan port on a power surge. I like the white case with the blue LEDs - my switch and my other router and cable modem have green lights, and in the dark, it's easy to see what's blinking.It keeps up the throughput nicely - I have a high-end cable connection (30MB down, 10MB up) and at my home/office I not only have multiple PCs on the LAN, I also have the kid's XBOX live and WOW running. Oh, and 3 VOIP phones as well. Doesn't skip a beat.Had a problem with the wireless setup - the mixed "b,g,n" mode flakes out - had to switch to "mixed b,g" to work with my laptops (don't have "n" cards for them yet.) Seems like this is an issue with the router that may eventually get fixed in a firmware update, but we'll see.The CD didn't seem to want to work for me (Windows XP SP2), but I've set up dozens of routers before manually, so I jumped right in and got it going in about 15 minutes. However, there are a LOT of wonderful options for QOS, firewall, VPN and such - great flexibility, but you really have to read the help files to get the most out of it.Customer support was kind of weak - nice enough, but obviously reading from a script. If you're a techie, this isn't a big problem. But if you're a novice or end-user (notice I refrained from calling them "noobs") it can get frustrating.Overall, I'm very satisfied with the router; there are some minor improvements that could be made, but the plusses definitely outweigh the minusses. If D-Link could get their tech support a little more friendlier, they might see a big jump in sales.