D-Link DI-624 Router

My friend recommended this router to me. I live in Toronto, and I will have my desktop (staying put) wired? and my dell 6400 wireless. Is it possible? and how is this router? and are these routers easy to set up? im a novice when it comes to this networking stuff, and the easier the better! Also, he told me to get a Cat5 cable, whatever thats for!

Here is the link to the router:

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=485092&Sku=D700-2144 P

for 53 bucks and 25 bucks in rebates, can i go wrong with this one?

Thanks!

 

I have a D-Link 624 Router it is very simple to setup. I have two wired desktops and a wireless desktop. This router is in a finished basement and the desktop is on the second floor it works 90 percent of the time but has low signal on the second floor. This router has been setup for two years with no problems.

 

Just follow the setup disk and you should be fine.
I have 2 of these.

 

D Link are very good quality, i have one and they are very simple to set up my configuration is two wireless laptops and one wired desktop. it has allways worked

as for Cat5 wire i would not bother unless your internet speed is over 16mps.

Cat5 is just a wire, with a higher bandwidth than normal phone lines, if uou just use your standard cord. it will work fine.

the only thing on the router that is not "simple" to do is you have to clone your mac address inorder for hte internet to work, there is a button that does this when you connect to the router and configure it.


go for it, man
i would pay twice as much just to get DLink, and wireless is so handy arond the house

 

My personal experience with D-Link routers is rather lousy. They often like to disconnect all the wireless computers when beyond it's "ideal" range of 40ft. indoors.

Personally, I'd recommend a Linksys WRT54G as it's much more powerful in terms of range than any D-Link I've used. It's also got many user-modded firmwares, allowing for lots of neat stuff.

 

i was thinking of getting a linksys, but they were too expensive...whats the range on this one? i know it says 100 metres...but we all know corporations, one lie after the other!

 

I had a DI624 for a few years, and it was OK. It was easy to use, but had subpar range. It had some issues with a Dell 1390 wireless card (firmware upgrade fixed that). I recently got an E1405 with an Intel 3945A/B/G card. It was constantly dropping connection with the router. Tried most recent firmware and nothing changed. Switched to a Linksys WRTG54S and I now have much better range and all three of the notebooks in my house connect flawlessly every time. I recommend the Linksys!!

 

D-links are cheap for a reason. 624 is a router that either woks good or doesn't at all- still it's got stability problems, poor firmware with few updates ( often worse than prevoius one) and poor hardware (Texas Instruments). I'd reccomend BROADCOM based hardware meaning Linksys (linux based only, forget VxWorks) or other like ASUS, BUFALLO etc.

 

D-link routers are total crap. I had a 524 that was impossible to set up. I finally got it to work, tried to change a setting, and it bricked on me. Couldn't even access it through ethernet. Just spend the extra cash and get a linksys.

 

My personal experience with the 624 wasn't great, used it for a year and it crapped out on me, got a linksys, works great, but then when the dlink gaming router (4300) came out, I got it and its been great, a lot more security options along with all the bells and whitles. I can't say that linksys is better, it all comes down to the model.

 

It seems that d-link's higher-end models are better, but all models in the linksys range work extremely well (I had a wireless-b router that worked fine for years, and I recently purchased a wrt54g wireless-g router; both of which were/are linksys's cheapest models).