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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-655 => Topic started by: astrid on January 11, 2010, 07:27:19 AM
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A little update on my DIR 655 router
I spent almost a year with dropped connection, updating new firmwares trying new beta versions, taking off DNS, firewall, no password, password, mac address..etc doing everything possible to it because I do not like to throw away things.
But this time I just bought a brand new ### ( I am not here to advertised the competition)
and that fixed my connection problems !!!
the DIR 655 is in the recycling bin outside in the cold, sorry buddy
I can finally enjoy my internet !
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Thanks to all the people who tried to help me, you are the lucky owners of a working D-LINK router so hold on to it and never update or change anything to it !
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There should be a place on here to sell back your DIR-655s.
I'll sell mine for $30 (only because I figure I might be able to turn off all the features and just use it as a dumb gig-E switch, though I don't have much faith in that either).
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I'm ready to switch Brands. Any suggestions?
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I'm ready to switch Brands. Any suggestions?
Same here.
I am truly tired of the problems which are almost never addressed in a timely fashion. I may just go back to a certain L brand of router and be done with it.
The options and such this router has are incredible. Unfortunately... getting them to work consistently is a huge issue.
Never again, D-Link. Never again.
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Just about there myself. Bad support. Nearly useless forums, except to confirm that others are indeed having the same issues which only confirms that the only mistake I made was picking this router/firmware.
I hear of these problems with other brands too though, so I'm kind of at a loss. Maybe something that runs open source, because at least I can debug it myself instead of having to pay for support to fix something that should have worked to begin with.
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The most annoying thing about these companies is their refusal to admit there's a problem. Consumers are left to twist in the wind. I was just writing in another thread about how this reminds me of the recent Seagate hardrive/firmware issues and how Seagate for the longest time would not admit there was a problem or attempt to address it. Their reputation took a big hit from what I know.
A company that releases (solid/stable) firmware regularly should get our dollars. I can see why many people just choose to go with DD-WRT.
My DIR-655 remains shelved as well, used it for about a month and that was enough for me.
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I'm ready to switch Brands. Any suggestions?
Stay away from Belkin F5D8235-4
:) Tis why I bought a DIR-655. Im lucky to have you guys here to tell me NOT to flash it.
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I'm thinking of selling my DIR-655 with version 1.11 firmware.
Anyone interested?
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Thanks to all the people who tried to help me, you are the lucky owners of a working D-LINK router so hold on to it and never update or change anything to it !
too late. I used to boast this router to everyone and recommend it...that was pre 1.31. I even started to experience problems during the 1.22 f/w release, which my dir-655 retires at now. I won't recommend this router anymore even if the retail still has 1.10 f/w on it, because people are most likely inclined to upgrade the firmware. I've certainly learned my lesson in that, and I won't be so quick to recommend the router I currently own in fear that it will slap me in the face a week from now. but it works, its been up longer than any dir655 has been up for, still miss my v1 wrt54gs had more memory than you could fit in a fat cow.
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I am tired of fighting with this router too. Worked great out of the box, but the firmware updates have destroyed its reliability. I have egg on my face because I have recommended this router to hundreds of my customers. Time to find a reliable router. I wish people would tell us the brands they have bought which did work for them.
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I'm ready to switch Brands. Any suggestions?
I have dd-wrt ized my WRT600N Couldn't be happier.
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I'm ready to switch Brands. Any suggestions?
WRT310N v.1 running DD-WRT NEWD2 Eko build 13401. Uptime has been over 2 months and rock solid with 6 heavy users on a FIOS 20/20 line.
Still wish I could find a stable firmware for the old DIR-655 though...
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I am one of the many who have no problems and love the DIR-655.
My router had been up since last November (flashed 132NAbeta9) until I just flashed the new beta 133.
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I am one of the many who have no problems and love the DIR-655.
My router had been up since last November (flashed 132NAbeta9) until I just flashed the new beta 133.
Unfortunately that doesn't help me.
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I'm ready to switch Brands. Any suggestions?
Apple
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when is the recall?
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I am soo dissapointed after reading the first five pages of this forum. I spent months reading about this router before I purchased it for 100 bucks and bought the extended waranty for another 20 bucks from Office Depot. I see my mistake was not joining this forum in the beginning before I purchased it.
On another note, I understand that the mods including the suck-ups that you find in every forum are doing their best to accomodate the members of this community. After all it's not their fault, hence the manufacturer's fail and lack of support. I have seen them default to giving out their customer service number as a last result including telling their members they aren't a support depot.
Lastly, I came here for help but I can see now that this probably won't end well, hence a time consuming boat of fail. I will now call their customer service and see how good or bad it actually is but I won't be running a marathon. This might not even be a choice after reading all of your threads including the last five pages of fail.
Farewell and good luck to all of you who ventured into a whatever mode of fail.
p.s. You know who you are, "The Mods in this forum" really need to develop better people skills. Locking threads on the ones who feed you and the company that you represent. You should be ashamed of yourselves. I'm out!!!!!!
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I have the following routers and its also listed in the order reliability/ease of use to wasted time trying to fix issue.
Asus RT-N16
Asus RT-N12
Asus W520GU
Linksys Wrt54g
Netgear WNDR3500
Netgear WNDR834b v2
Netgear WNDR3300
D-Link DIR-655
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Hi,
No DLink fanboy here, but for once I waited to flash a firmware update for a product, and it has saved me. Altho I must say I do experience moments of firmware envy, not having the latest firmware is making me crazy....maybe I have a firmware addiction...and if you are reading this, then maybe you do too !
My FW 1.21 has been very stable. I keep it powered thru my UPS, (also the cable modem) and I even run my Vonage box thru it. I may have to add a Gig-E switch for more wired ports...hopefully that will just be plug and plug and play.
I truly feel for those of you who have been badly affected by the firmware debacle. Been there with an older netgear product back a few years ago....suxor'd then...suxors now.
Dave
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Disable QoS Engine in your router in the advance tab. After suffering a couple of months of seeing Request Time Out, disabling QoS fixed it.
Hopefully it works for everyone here as it done for me.
Images before and after
Bad:http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/531/baddlinkdir655router.jpg (http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/531/baddlinkdir655router.jpg) (was me messing with the settings cause nothing worked)
Great:http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/7077/capture2322.jpg (http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/7077/capture2322.jpg)
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If you're having problems with the QoS Engine; I would report that as a separate topic. It's supposed to work--it's the best feature of this router IMO.
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Netgear WNDR3700 tops the list but it is expensive.
For DD WRT, try to avoid Linksys Dual Band 11n routers because they are hit or miss - hence all the scrapped models. Configure DD-WRT QoS with the QoS generator application - change language from Polish to english.
11g
WL-520GU (affordable, great wireless performance, removable RP-SMA antenna, USB, also runs tomato)
WRT54GL (more expensive but fewer features)
2.4Ghz 11n
RT-N16 (128MB RAM, 32MB Flash, 5Ghz chipset but 5Ghz permantently disabled, Great 2.4Ghz performance)
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/31058-asus-rt-n16-gigabit-n-router-reviewed?showall=&start=4
RT-N13U (Excellent Wireless Performance and great range)
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/component/option,com_wireless/Itemid,200
Dual Band 11n
WRT320N (Selectable Dual Band because of single radio)
Used WRT610N or WRT600N can work well in DD-WRT will simulatenous freq functionality (check Hardware versions)
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I really have enjoyed my DIR-655. But the reason I purchased it was to manage WEB pages and hours of access. I have children and I like the additional security. Plus, I shut down their internet in the evening through the night. However, Secure-Spot is and always had issues. It seems to have gotten really horrible the last 6 months. Right now the feature is turned off because who wants every WEB page to load 30 second later or time out. None of us do. So, I leave you with this, I'm looking at a new router already to replace my DIR-655. I'm also letting my securespot run out next month.
Shame, I really had no issues with DLink Dir-655 product. SecureSpot has ruined it.
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Hey, you can manage your websites externally using OpenDNS, and configuring your 655's DNS servers to use the OpenDNS servers instead of your ISP's DNS servers. Now all your LAN clients will use OpenDNS to resolve IP addresses and web sites will be filtered. You can not control time slotsand all blocked websites will be blocked for all users but it is a free option that works with every router.
http://www.ehow.com/how_4556123_bad-web-sites-using-opendns.html
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I also have had issues with the DIR-655 router ever since I upgraded to 1.3X. I had to downgrade back to 1.21 to get everything to work. I am a network administrator and there is no reason a firmware update should cripple a network like the 1.3X has. It is a little bit of a pain to downgrade to 1.21, but I suggest anyone having issues do just that. Use google and you should be able to find what you need.
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I've had the dir-655 a4 revision for about a couple months ago and started out with the shipped firmware. Unfortunately, I flashed it before finding out about the metric trailerload of problems with the newest FW revisions.
I've had disconnects as frequent as one per hour with the 1.34NA revision. strike one. I've also encountered random reboots. strike two. And then there was the unusual timeouts on random webpages. that's strike three.
so I went on a hunt to find answers and I came across the 1.34EU version. So I tried that version. Hey guess what? more problems. and these were centered around the DNS relay function. If I disabled it, only one connected PC received web traffic.
so I tossed that version out the window and flashed in the 1.34 WW beta 08 firmware.
If the router isn't absolutely stable for the next two weeks, I'm just going to take the 655 back to where I bought it and demand a refund. That money will be put towards a company that has dd-wrt already loaded onto their routers.
I may be picky, but I also support networks for a living. And as such I expect rock-solid stability. Until I see a magnitude of an improvement on the firmware end of things, I will simply tell people to stay away from D-link.
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This is my FIRST and LAST post to D-Link. Touché! Good Job stealing my cash!! Shame on me for taking the advice of a friend and not doing my own research. All I can is, never again. Your DIR-655 is junk.
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hey guess what. I'm still having problems with this router. It may be great hardware and have an excellent set of features but the fact is, any firmware past 1.21 is a complete waste of time. connection drops, unnecessary slowdowns, buggy wireless support, and let's not forget the asinine decision of disallowing downgrades. This all add up to me simply taking this thing back and replacing it with a buffalo netfinity router that comes with DDWRT already installed.
that's right, ddwrt. a firmware that's actually supported by a dedicated team instead of this schlock dlink has saddled us with. It's pretty clear that dlink simply does not care about any worthwile support.
I gave you a chance dlink. and you stuck a knife in my back. Everyone that I deal with will be told to never buy anything dlink. doesn't matter if it's a network card, network attached storage, router, you name it. dlink is going to be a name synonymous with herpes by the time i'm finished.
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I just bought the dlink router and I have had nothing but problems. I had an old cheap(which is what I am using now since dlink is acting up) belkins router and never had a problem. The only reason I bought a new one is because I wanted to upgrade to a stronger router to handle more of what I got.
I am with you guys and I am taking the dlink router back and getting something else. Any router that you have to work so hard on is SO not worth it.
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I grabbed myself a cisco/linksys e2000 a few days ago. It cost a little more than the dlink, and as soon as I updated it with the latest firmware it's been absolutely solid. Not to mention there's a tomatoUSB build for the e2000.
I might try either ddwrt or tomatoUSB down the road but as of now, i'm much happier. Simply because linksys actually fixes bugs.
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It would be nice if the 655 supported DD-WRT or Tomato firmwares, but alas we are SOL on that front because of the licensing costs with the maker of the 655 core chipset (I forget their name as I write this); they wanted some ridiculous amount of money per unit for access to their SDK (aka firmwares) so DD-WRT scrapped work on our 655's....I read about this stuff at least a year ago or more....
I like having access to open source stuff....seems to promote better products of out the box. Stinks for us.
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Ubicom
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I'm ready to switch Brands. Any suggestions?
netgear wndr3400 is most like the dir-655 and works great. I tried the big brother wndr3700 didn't work for me.
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My DIR-655 shows the following firmware:
Current Firmware Version : 2.00NA
Current Firmware Date : Wed, 12, May, 2010
I am not experiencing any of the described problems.
To those with problems :
What hardware revision is your router?
Mine is DIR-655_REVB ... can this be the difference?
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Funny going through this thread and seeing all of the people who are sick and tired.
I've been having constant disconnect issues when I upgraded to 1.33 NA from 1.21 NA due to a problem I thought was hardware related but was just a simple port conflicting error.
Big mistake on my part, can barely even play a game for an hour on this router without getting disconnected and having the entire router crash and reboot 5 seconds later, going to downgrade back to 1.21 as it's obvious D-Link can't program their routers for s***.
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Even funnier, a few months ago, I visited a friend who threw out his 655 for "something better" and when we sat down and tested his new router on a couple of "test your firewall" sites, we found that it was, for all practical purposes, wide open. Failed almost every test and was really nothing more than a safety placebo.
His former 655A2 was solid when it came to safety. His gripe was that it was sensitive to interference from his neighbor's transmitters and he wouldn't bother to do the proper analysis with InSSider.
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What ISP Service do you have? Cable or DSL?
What ISP Modem do you have? Stand Alone or built in router?
Ensure DNS IP addresses are being filled in under Setup/Internet/Manual?
Turn off Advanced DNS Services if you have this option.
Turn on DNS Relay under Setup/Networking.
Setup DHCP reserved IP addresses for all devices on the router.
Ensure devices are set to auto obtain an IP address.
Set Firewall settings to Endpoint Independent for TCP and UDP.
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What wireless modes are you using?
Try single mode G or mixed G and N?
What security mode are you using? WEP, WPA or WPA2? Preferred is WPA2.
What wireless devices do you have connected?
Any cordless house phones?
Turn off all anti virus and firewall programs on PC while testing.
Turn off all devices accept for one wired PC while testing
Funny going through this thread and seeing all of the people who are sick and tired.
I've been having constant disconnect issues when I upgraded to 1.33 NA from 1.21 NA due to a problem I thought was hardware related but was just a simple port conflicting error.
Big mistake on my part, can barely even play a game for an hour on this router without getting disconnected and having the entire router crash and reboot 5 seconds later, going to downgrade back to 1.21 as it's obvious D-Link can't program their routers for ****.
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What ISP Service do you have? Cable or DSL?
What ISP Modem do you have? Stand Alone or built in router?
Ensure DNS IP addresses are being filled in under Setup/Internet/Manual?
Turn off Advanced DNS Services if you have this option.
Turn on DNS Relay under Setup/Networking.
Setup DHCP reserved IP addresses for all devices on the router.
Ensure devices are set to auto obtain an IP address.
Set Firewall settings to Endpoint Independent for TCP and UDP.
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What wireless modes are you using?
Try single mode G or mixed G and N?
What security mode are you using? WEP, WPA or WPA2? Preferred is WPA2.
What wireless devices do you have connected?
Any cordless house phones?
Turn off all anti virus and firewall programs on PC while testing.
Turn off all devices accept for one wired PC while testing
ISP - Barrett Xplornet, It's Satellite internet but we maintain constant ping under 50ms and at least 3.5mb down/1mb up and have not had any issues with the router up until this point. (We don't have landlines as we live on an acreage.)
We don't use a modem, the DIR-655 is directly hooked to the internet and acts as a standalone device.
DNS IP Addresses - Yup, checked them all.
Advanced DNS - Don't know if I even have this, if I do, don't know where to find.
DNS Relay - On as a default.
I have every device reserved for their own IP's.
Auto Obtain IP - Already done on mine, don't know about my brothers.
TCP/UDP Endpoint - Did this awhile back, read up on it.
Wireless G & N as I have Wireless N computers, but the PS3/Xbox 360 only supports Wireless G.
Auto WPA/WPA2 with Auto TKIP/AES.
Wireless Devices - Bunch of PS3s, Bunch of PC's, Bunch of IPhones.
Cordless Phones - 1, but we tested and bought one that doesn't disconnect us when the phone is picked up.
Problem is not with my PC, my router reboots itself only when I play one specific game online on my PS3, the Coop section of that game works fine but I can't play the Competitive Multiplayer part of it without my router completely rebooting itself. The only things that come up on the log immediately after it reboots itself is this:
[INFO] Sat Jul 02 11:09:47 2011 Blocked outgoing TCP packet from 192.168.0.194:43893 to 160.33.56.99:10078 as FIN:PSH:ACK received but there is no active connection
[INFO] Sat Jul 02 11:09:43 2011 Blocked incoming TCP packet from 174.111.19.88:6881 to 173.210.144.145:52055 as RST:ACK received but there is no active connection
[INFO] Sat Jul 02 11:09:39 2011 dlink: Wireless system with MAC address ************ secured and linked
[INFO] Sat Jul 02 11:09:39 2011 dlink: Wireless system with MAC address ************ associated
[INFO] Sat Jul 02 11:09:39 2011 Above message repeated 1 times
[INFO] Sat Jul 02 11:09:16 2011 Blocked outgoing TCP packet from 192.168.0.194:42170 to 160.33.56.116:10080 as FIN:PSH:ACK received but there is no active connection
[INFO] Sat Jul 02 11:09:11 2011 Log viewed by IP address 192.168.0.193
[INFO] Sat Jul 02 11:09:08 2011 Allowed configuration authentication by IP address 192.168.0.193
[INFO] Sat Jul 02 11:09:00 2011 Blocked outgoing TCP packet from 192.168.0.194:63769 to 198.107.156.136:5223 as ACK received but there is no active connection
[INFO] Sat Jul 02 11:08:58 2011 Firmware upgrade server wrpd.dlink.com.tw is at IP address 210.242.32.129
[INFO] Sat Jul 02 11:08:54 2011 Above message repeated 1 times
[INFO] Sat Jul 02 11:08:47 2011 Blocked outgoing TCP packet from 192.168.0.112:52055 to 174.111.19.88:6881 as RST:ACK received but there is no active connection
[INFO] Sat Jul 02 11:08:46 2011 WAN interface speed measurement completed. Upstream speed is 825 kbps
[INFO] Sat Jul 02 11:08:38 2011 dlink: Wireless system with MAC address ************ secured and linked
[INFO] Sat Jul 02 11:08:38 2011 dlink: Wireless system with MAC address ************ associated
[INFO] Sat Jul 02 11:08:38 2011 Above message repeated 1 times
This only recently started happening, and the only reason I'm still using this router is because I can't find my power cord for my old Wireless G D Link.
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I would recommend checking out the sticky for gaming in the DGL-4500 forum.
Your using satellite and i presume you do understand there is propagation issues with satellite internet? Yes I had this some years back, way better then dialup. Not the best for gaming. ::)
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I would recommend checking out the sticky for gaming in the DGL-4500 forum.
Your using satellite and i presume you do understand there is propagation issues with satellite internet? Yes I had this some years back, way better then dialup. Not the best for gaming. ::)
People always say that but we are on a licensed frequency, so only our ISP and our satellite can be using the same frequency.
I always get higher than 80% connection, I've seen it go as low as 67% before and never lower.
I have NO problems with ANY video games or ANY lag on ANYTHING. It is a problem with my router, not my internet, I have used this internet for 3 years without problems up until a month ago when this started happening, as I said though, ONLY when I play a certain section of a video game does my router ever have problems, if I stay off the game I have no problems. This to me makes no sense, and it's completely random, sometimes I can play 2-3 games and it'll reboot itself, other times I hop into a game and it does it right away.
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Did you check out the sticking over on the DGL-4500 forum? Might need to set up some QOS rules for your device and see if that helps.
Gaming and Gamefuel for XBL. (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=42011.0)
This is a user configuration problem and not a HW problem with the router.