Summary: This WAP has been a huge time-waster for me. The signal strength continually jumps all over the place, even though nothing in my local environment is changing. After lots of tweaking, I finally moved the device within 15 feet of my desktop and laptop (both running D-Link wireless NICs). Even then, in direct line of sight, connection drops very frequently without rhyme or reason. The solution is to then get up and unplug and replug the router, then the signal MAY come back as either Very Good or as Low. Roll of the dice. I am running all updated OS, drivers, and firmware.
I've tried another (non-D-Link) wireless router from much further away, and it stays connected just fine. D-Link tech support wouldn't own up to the issue as being with their equipment, so the router is now sitting on a shelf with other old and worthless computer hardware.
Reviewed by: ekstasis16 on 25-Mar-05Rating:
Strengths: Quick setup, good price for a G router
Summary: I just installed the router in my home, I have a desktop PC and a Powerbook G4. After a short wizard setup (including 64-bit WEP encryption setup; 128-bit is available also) it setup the LAN side perfectly. I had one hang up connecting to the WAN side, but once I cloned my PC's mac address to the router (with the click of one button) and renewed the WAN IP, it connected fine and I was up and running. Then I tried connecting my Powerbook to test the wireless; it found the network and got on fine with the WEP encryption. Couldn't have been much easier to do. Two thumbs up!