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Thread ID: 46678	2004-07-01 18:09:00	Oh my... Post your all time worst routers ever used here	KingWave (5517)	Press F1

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249062	2004-07-01 18:09:00	1) Dick Smiths DSE XH1151 2) D-Link DSL-500 Adsl Router 3) D-Link 704P Broadband Router Those router's there are the worst router's I've ever used IMHO and I think D-Link should be banned from selling anything in the NZ market. Their products just aren't up to standard, not by a long shot. Episode 1 The DSE Router I bought for woosh and it cost $100. It got returned a day later for a refund. It would disconnect and drop all LAN traffic within 5-10mins every single time. This started happening as soon as I turned the thing on. I even tried swapping for another new router of the same model that day, still exact same problems. This rates number one on the POS Router list. Episode 2 The D-Link DSL-500 Adsl Router I rate just below the DSE router. It cost $160 just 2 weeks ago. My father bought this for a person in his business to do some work from home on, the work requiring a fast internet connection. I had to go round and set it up. Currently the woman was set up with our old router, a Dynalink RTA300 because we weren't using it anymore, but we were needing it back. That was working fine with no problems. So anyway after getting the D-Link set-up with all the correct settings it would not connect. It would just say 'Physical line error'. Lies!! I even had xtra and telecom on the phone and we couldn't get it to work with any settings. Damned 2min reset time after you change a setting can be very annoying! I then plugged the Dynalink in again, and oh my gosh that worked straight away, but not the D-Link. Anyway after wasting 30mins of my life on this 5min job, I gave up. Then I hear the next day from my father that about 1/2 hour after we had left, the router had strangely connected by its own accord and was going. :O Then yesterday a week or so later I hear that the woman has been having lots of troubles with the router. Never connecting, frequent disconnects all round classic POS in action. She had Telecom and Xtra trying to fix it, and even had a technician come to her house to try fix it and he couldn't even get it working :^O. This router will be returned next week for a full refund. I had told my father not to buy another D-Link, not with the episode with the D-Link 704P, but he wanted to save $100 and get a cheapy. Well you get what you pay for. Episode 3 The D-Link 704P worked fine for a week or so but had issues connecting with Woosh which required a reboot every time you lost the connection. A reboot in this router's terms is a physical power off and on by unplugging the cord. Next it started giving speed issues like dropping all internet traffic down to half speed. Usually a reboot fixed it. Then a few weeks later a reboot did not fix it, so a hard reset to factory defaults sometimes did. This issue continued on throughout the few months that I had it. Then things got worse and the router stopped working on the internet altogether. Like it would even stop responding to ping tests to the router itself and refuse to look up anything on the internet. Nothing not even hard resets worked. Then I tried updating the firmware and that didn't work. So eventually I devised a scheme where you flash it to the new firmware, reset it, flash it to the old firmware twice and then reset it. Strangely that worked. :^O Unfortunately that issue occurred like once a week and coupled with the half speed of the broadband connection this was a real hassle. D-Link Tech Support didn't have any answers either. Suffered with that POS for 3months and finally got it sent back to the factory today where it belongs. Personally I felt like ritualistically burning the thing or smashing it with an axe. Conclusion So I have decided that after trying 2 versions of D-Link, I'm declaring them extremely useless and not worth 5 cents. The amount of time you waste on these router's would double the cost you paid for them. I have used a Dynalink RTA300 and never once has it caused problems. That's what routers should be like. Also my Linksys WRT54 is working without problems as well, even on Woosh. I conclude that to get a good router these days you must spend in excess of $250. Thats about the benchmark. Also if you see a $400 D-Link, that means that you will waste $400 of your time trying to get it to work as it should, or most likely not at all. D-Link should be banned from selling their products in NZ. They should really be out of business full stop. }//rant! Ok post your useless routers here and any experiences you've had with router's :)	KingWave (5517)
249063	2004-07-01 19:55:00	I've only ever set up one router, a D-Link DSL-500, and it worked an absolute breeze. Perhaps yours was a bum unit	Greg S (201)
249064	2004-07-01 20:01:00	> I've only ever set up one router, a D-Link DSL-500, > and it worked an absolute breeze. Perhaps yours was > a bum unit Probably built on a Friday when everyone was in a hurry to finish work for the weekend. We have got D-Links @ work, plus I have a friend with one as well and they all work perfectly	Baldy (26)
249065	2004-07-01 20:55:00	I know the DSE model has a bad rep here but I have one as do two others in this town and they haven't missed a beat...bit piggy to setup at times, but once all go, no stopping them. Weird huh?	falvrez (390)
249066	2004-07-01 21:33:00	We have a D-link DSL-500 here at work and it was setup and going in about 10 mins and it hasn't missed a beat since (almost 2 years now I think). I have also set up a few more at clients places and had no problems with any of them. I have used the Dynalink RTA300 and found this model to be pretty good as well. Would rather stay away from the RTA220 though as have had a few of these die.	CYaBro (73)
249067	2004-07-01 22:20:00	Have been using a lectron unit that would freeze and need a hard boot to get started and have to be reconfigured,Happened every thursday morning without fail and at least 1 other random time during the week. After getting rid of the desktop and replacing it with a laptop i have had no further problems,it obviously wasn't the router.	metla (154)
249068	2004-07-01 23:38:00	I have an EpicRouter based on a Conxeant chipset (It was a rather anonymous box) and its pretty good, dont get me wrong, but: Networking between the USB and RJ45 port happens over the internet, regardless of me sharing files, games, whatever.. it all happens over the net! Sucks when you're on 128kbps :-( Next is a Dynalink RTA-020 It was a good modem, dont get me wrong... But it had the Pro and the Con of not being able to port-forward. This could be good and bad in some cases (Apparently with the latest Firmware upgrade it can port forward) but for me it wasnt :-( I even tried getting the latest Firmware and it still wouldnt :-( Chill.	Chilling_Silence (9)
249069	2004-07-01 23:58:00	metla, I'm having the same problem you are having with a Lectron router (I'm on my third replacement unit). You mean I have to replace all the desktops with laptops to fix it :)	Dolby Digital (160)
249070	2004-07-02 03:06:00	Is the third unit still displaying the same behavior? I would have changed brand by now I think.	metla (154)
249071	2004-07-02 03:32:00	Worst router I ever used had a bent shaft and a blunt cutter, the job was overhead and the ladder was suspect. Can't remember the router brand, but the cutter came from Farmers Trading Co., and was about 17/-6d. Seemed like a pretty bad scene at the time. R2	R2x1 (4628)
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