Dlink Probs: Slow speed Wont connect to certain sites, I have an answer to this

For you people who are using a Dlink router, if you are experiencing slow download speeds such as windows update, trying to download a 100 meg file and the estimated time is 3000 hours, are you having problems connecting to some of you favourites websites, are you having problems connecting to your own home server connected to your Dlink router.

I have had all these problems and it started up a few days ago, after pulling my hair out and a-lot of alcohol, I traced the problem to the Dlink anti spoofing, also called Advanced DNS Service, it seems when you have this option checked off in your setup, you either use Dlinks DNS server or their server checks out the address of the site you want to go to (its one of the two), after thinking about the problem, I realised that I have had DNS problems before, to make a long story short, if you have any of the above problems and the Anti Spoofing or Advanced DNS Service has a check mark in it, REMOVE the check mark then click save, then click reboot, this should fix your problems.

It seems Dlinks DNS checking service has a ton of problems, I thought I was being throttled, I check with provider, they check my line and everything is ok, I had problems connecting to my WHS, so this service has thrown a-lot of things out of whack, so HEADS UP HERE.

 

The hardware and firmware is just fine on most dlinks, it only a problem if your using antispoofing.

 

Most, yes.

Of all the major consumer grade router companies out there, in terms of firmware, I have the least respect/faith in D-Link. They disappointed me far too many times either by failure to fix problems, taking advantage of customers, or just plain stupid decisions that hurt the customer.

 

Most mature dlink routers are fine with their firmware, its just that many people are always blaming firmware for their woes, not defending dlink, and yes there is bad firmware, did you ever have to deal with a linksys 350n when it came out, now that was bad firmware, many people just have a hard time setting a router up, using a setup cd is just scratching the surface of setting up a router, and they start wondering why their signal keeps dropping, not reading any of the documents and if they did for an example, they would find out that some dlinks on dsl defaults to a maximum idle time of 5 min then shuts the signal down, and if you did not know this, the firmware gets blamed, I've had dlink 655, 4500 and 825, and all ran well after being setup properly.
Yes there is bad firmware, every company has it, the problem is still, most people don't read the documentation or understand the workings of the settings, then comes the setup of the computer, who the hell knows how other people setup their computer, till you question them, and then you still may be in the dark.

 

The 655 was the biggest pile of garbage I ever owned.

Great hardware, but it took almost 2 years and disabling several features to make it stable. For a long time, many of us were in D-Links support forum testing their betas and reporting up times in minutes. That was the router (and last straw) that ended my relationship with D-link. There is a post in this section of the forum detailing what all I went through with that router, it's quite long.

I used to install D-link in quite a few offices, but after more than a few started dying after a year, then the 655 nightmare, that was it. All offices I maintain now get Linksys or Netgear (Asus is hard to find here but I do occasionally use Buffalo for range extension with DD-WRT). I'm not dealing with that sort of thing again.

 

Gee I gave my 655 away and it was running just fine, and its still running just fine with the guy I gave it to, there are a ton of people here who's 655's are running just fine, when your running around with beta firmware, what do you expect, can you explain why most people with 655's are happy with them.
Give it rest lady, Im not no damn rookie in this business.

 

Closing the thread- it got off topic quite a bit.
Anti Spoofing is solved- that's it.