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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => DIR-655 => Routers / COVR => Europe DIR-655 => Topic started by: sapox on October 02, 2008, 12:34:09 PM
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Since the german division of dlink has not released the new 1.20 firmware, could I install the US version into my EU router?? Or can someone tell me where I can find a suitable firmware update for my router, considering that the american market has already available the 1.21 version.
Even in south america they have the 1.20 available.
I need some help with all this mess.
Thanks.
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Just do it. Almost everybody does so. I don't think there will be anymore EU versions.
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i did, works fine
it will void your warranty but well you can revert back to orginal firmware :P
the Beta firmwares will show all 13 channels = EU
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But, if I'm not wrong, there is not a big difference in the hardware?
As far as I remember one use an atheros chipset and the other an ubicom.
That makes a big difference in the coding of the firmware, or not?
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there might be diffrent channels in diffrent parts of the world, japan has 14, EU got 13, US got 11
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Firmware 1.21 is running fine on my A2 EU router.
Ubicom is the processor of the router
Atheros is the wireless chipset
It's just a matter of time until there will be a EU firmware too.
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It's just a matter of time until there will be a EU firmware too.
I Hope so...
In the meanwhile, then, I will install the 1.21 from the american site.
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There is or wasn't any difference in the firmware versions... Installing the US firmware = void your guarantee? They say so, but in practice this will not be an easy excercise for Dlink since the hardware is not any different.
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Ok, this is simply to show what I got and compare some results between old/new firmwares. I made this measurement moving files between my laptor to a NAS with a Giga ethernet card connected to the router, I'm not completely sure if this the idoneus scenario to run this tests but is something that I do quite often so is very valid for me.
I tested two N cards in my laptop, a D-Link USB DWA-140 with the driver 2.1.0.0 (15/08/2007) and the internal card of the laptop an Intel 4965 AGN with driver 11.1.1.22 (08/08/2007).
| |Firmware 1.11 | |Firmware 1.21 |
| DWA-140 | |Up: 7.5 Down: 8.1 | |Up: 9.3 Down: 16.5 | MB/s |
| Intel 4965 | |Up: 7.8 Down: 9.1 | |Up: 8.4 Down: 9.1 | MB/s |
Later, I updated the drivers of the D-Link card provided by the chip manufacturer Ralink RT2870 version 2.2.2.0, and I got a worst performance (not shown).
In conclusion, a quite good improvement using the D-Link but with the Intel card is more or less the same story. However, the best result obtained (16.5 MB/s = 138.4 Mbps) is far from the theoretical 300 Mbps expected, considering that D-Link claim (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=616.0 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=616.0)) that is possible to obtain this speed using the router and a NIC from them and this same configuration.
Regular configuration with WPA2 Only - AES:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3180/2914086727_8e3cb825c3_o.jpg)
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The Intel 4965 only does 130 Mbps (20 mHz only) by design. So don't expect any more enhancements on that connection 8)
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Ok, this is simply to show what I got and compare some results between old/new firmwares. I made this measurement moving files between my laptor to a NAS with a Giga ethernet card connected to the router, I'm not completely sure if this the idoneus scenario to run this tests but is something that I do quite often so is very valid for me.
I tested two N cards in my laptop, a D-Link USB DWA-140 with the driver 2.1.0.0 (15/08/2007) and the internal card of the laptop an Intel 4965 AGN with driver 11.1.1.22 (08/08/2007).
| |Firmware 1.11 | |Firmware 1.21 |
| DWA-140 | |Up: 7.5 Down: 8.1 | |Up: 9.3 Down: 16.5 | MB/s |
| Intel 4965 | |Up: 7.8 Down: 9.1 | |Up: 8.4 Down: 9.1 | MB/s |
Later, I updated the drivers of the D-Link card provided by the chip manufacturer Ralink RT2870 version 2.2.2.0, and I got a worst performance (not shown).
In conclusion, a quite good improvement using the D-Link but with the Intel card is more or less the same story. However, the best result obtained (16.5 MB/s = 138.4 Mbps) is far from the theoretical 300 Mbps expected, considering that D-Link claim (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=616.0 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=616.0)) that is possible to obtain this speed using the router and a NIC from them and this same configuration.
Regular configuration with WPA2 Only - AES:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3180/2914086727_8e3cb825c3_o.jpg)
16 mb/s on DWA-140?
i get 11 mb/s hehe up and around 7 mb/s down
can you upload you driver to mediafire.com please
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N should do around 150 mbps in read speed when its ready, just like 54mbps does 25mbps in real speed