Electronics : D-Link DIR-655 Extreme N Wireless Router

Rating: - Rock Solid
This router rocks! It is easy to set up, has loads of functionality, and it even looks cool. Its rock solid and stable. I highly recommend it.

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Rating: - Great router
I'm new to the whole wireless router world and decided to take the plunge. After doing extensive research and getting a lot of advice from my tecchie friends, I decided to purchase the DIR 655.

Although I'm somewhat of a tecchie myself, the wireless router world was new to me, so I was a little nervous about getting the right router that would work in all my rooms.

After getting the best price around on Amazon, I received it a few days later. Setup was a breeze! I was up and running in no time and hooked up all my wireless gadgets easily. I had an issue setting up the encryption properly, so I called the help desk. My experience with them was fine. The guy who helped me sounded a little high strung, but certainly, I understood his instructions and was all sorted out within a few minutes.

For those that say setup is really complicated, it's actually not. It does take a little effort in terms of getting the encryption setup correctly if you're not wireless router savvy, but the helpdesk was helpful and only took a few minutes.

All in all, I'm very pleased with my purchase. I've only gotten a couple of quick dropouts which corrected within a second or two and have had no issues over the last month. And it works beautifully with my Netflix Roku box in my living room. No issues at all when streaming movies. After all my research, I'm glad I chose this wireless router.

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Rating: - Easy to install, easy to customize
Totally recommend this item. I have installed netgear and belkins in the past, for friends and family, and this D-link router is just as easy as any other. Following the quickstart instructions is just enough. I personally purchased this router because it had the shareport USB utility which allowed me to connect a USB external hard drive, that I can access anywhere from home, and it works fine. The only downside is that the hard drive is only accessible from one laptop at a time, which is fine for me at this moment. I hope D-link will improve this in the future. I live in a 1600 ft2 apartment and the signal is strong all the way to the last corner, at least 3 bars (out of 5). Make sure you follow the recommendations for the antennas and how to arrange them. It really makes a difference. Setting up a WEP-encrypted password is easier than other routers I had to work with. In conclusion this is a great product and I totally recommend it.

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Rating: - Conflicts with 2.4GHz Wireless Phones
Total misery at first until I finally figured out my Uniden 2.4GHz phones were conflicting with this router and my wireless adapters (on two computers). No problem with old Netgear router with the Uniden phones, so it took me a bit to figure out why the new router worked SLOWER than my old Netgear. Easy fix--bought new 1.9GHz DEC phones and now everything works GREAT. Speed is so fast it's like I'm hard wired to my router. Great price, good web interface--well worth the money (and time to figure out everything) spent.

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Rating: - Another Excellent Router by D-Link
Very easy installation and configuration.
I'm not a network expert but I was able to set both the wire and wireless connections quite easily with the wizards and documentation and even turn wireless security on in no-time.

Connecting to the wireless network with my laptop proved quite painless and simple - even after trying for the first time connecting to a WPA2 secured wireless network with a WiFi enabled smartphone!

The signal is very strong and I'm able to easily connect from every spot in my house and yard though the router resides at a back room.

I've been running this router for a few months now where a bunch of house guests have connected to it (if I were more paranoid I would be quite alarmed at the number of individuals having the password to my wireless network!) - and never had any issues connecting and maintainig a connection.

This router has so many feature and customization options as well.

Worth every cent!