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[crocodile69]

So under ADVANCED > ROUTING I was trying to set up a static route on the LAN side to connect to a second router, but it turns out it doesn't allow you to do that!!

(Yes, I realize that this has been an issue with D-Link routers for the past 5 years at least, but yeah, I just found out about it yesterday, since I never had to use this feature before. There are some hacks online for how to force a DIR655 to accept the setting you want, but that no longer works on the new routers, the firmware is totally different.)

So here I am, looking at a router that doesn't do routing...

Thank god though there's an "app" for setting "the router" from "the cloud".
What has this world come to....

[FurryNutz]

You Phone contacted DLink with this questions to see if it's supported and to make sure the configuration is correct? What other router are you trying to router too?

IMO, routing for the avg home user isn't something good unless your an advanced user. Ya, I agree, if the routing feature is an option on the router, then it should work. Could be a configuration issue, maybe, however avg users not not going to be doing alot of that anyways. Why Dlink probably removed it from the 655 and other model routers. Again these are simple SOHO routers. These routers do work at routers and work as designed.

I would call up DLink, level 2 or higher to verify that your configuration is correct and should work.

[crocodile69]

I was trying to connect to my old DIR827, as a separate network, with IP (for example) 192.168.2.0.

The firmware does not include that option. You can only set a static route on the WAN side, but not on the LAN side.
(if you look in the ADVANCED > ROUTING page, on the right there's the "Interface" column, with a select box that contains only 1 option, WAN. If you look at the page source, that box has <option value="WAN-1">WAN  ([YOUR current WAN IP])</option>
There is no other option allowed in the firmware, so no way to choose LAN instead of WAN.

Nothing that the guys at customer support can do about that...

[FurryNutz]

Ok, didn't know there wasn't a LAN to WAN route.

Tried to put the 827 into the DMZ?

[FurryNutz]

Another reason aside these being SOHO routers, DLink may have keep the full on ROUTE function to there business class routers. I presume those would see more of a need for full custom routing abilities. Just a thought.

[FurryNutz]

Try this?
How to extend network without AP Mode using a Router