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Originally Posted by anirban3598  I have been looking online for info on wireless routers. It appears the D-Link DIR-655 Xtreme and the Linksys WRT-160N is quite good. I am preferring D-Link because of its range and capabilities to include printers in the network.
Anyone out there have any hand on experience with this unit? I will be recommending this to a friend to whom I helped with their purchasing of laptop which has an N card built in. The laptop is HP 9000 series with an Intel core Duo 2.0 chip and 800 mhz front side bus. |
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I set up a few wireless networks with D-LINK. They are pretty good. They are abit more advanced than the Netgears so its slightly more tricker to set them up. Personally I don't like they way they set up the Administrator console, but its not a deal-breaker. They have better range than Netgear G6xx+8xx series but are more expensive too.
The biggest weakness is the documentation, which is CRAP and totally insufficient. I got my Grandma a DSL-605 (modem+router) I was setting up the WSA-PSK but unlike most other routers I use, setting changes for security are not retroactive, plus I was getting an odd error message relating to having 2 SSID (which I didn't have).
In fact, the setting changes had to be finalized in a separate area of the console (which wasn't that easy to find) and the error message I was getting was normal. But
NOWHERE was either of this mentioned in the documentation. It was unbelievable, I had to call the help desk to get an answer. Once that mystery was solved , it works fine.
I am more of a fan of Linksys (as its part of Cisco) but they are much more expensive.