Which D-Link router?

The D-Link DIR-615 or the D-Link DIR-655 for 50 bucks more? I just bought the 615 last week and haven't even opened the box.

I'll be using the new router with an Intel 4965 draft-n card in a Dell 1720, a 1 yr old Gateway laptop and an old Dell c640 laptop.

I want the best N performance I can get but still good for the old machine.

Thanks,

 

The DIR-615 has 10/100 ethernet ports while the DIR-655 has gig ports and the DIR-655 will give slightly better signal due to the 3 antennas.

Also note that you Intel 4965 will only run at a maximum of 130Mbps and not the 300Mbps that D-Link states.

This is because D-Link uses fat channels ( 40Mhz width) while intel reserve this for the 5Ghz band.

If you want to get up to 300Mbps i would suggest getting rid of the 4965 and obtaining an 802.11n Atheros card.

 

I personally would go the cheap route for now, either the 615 or the 625. I used a 615 for a couple of weeks and was really happy w/ it, only returned it b/c of some odd whistling it made and the fact that the 625 went on sale for just a few $ more (it does QoS which is nice for video and voip). Anyway, any of the ones you are looking at are good and in my environment there has been no issue w/ range, but yours could be different. If you setup the 615 (or 625) and have range issues, as JDMSTyle said, the 655 will help you some and/or putting higher gain antennas on to replace the stock ones. Between the 615 and 625, I noticed no significant differene in performance, just some extra features.

Chris

 

Thanks people, with this info and all the other reading I've been doing I'll keep the 615 I have.

 

the dir-655 will also only get 130mbps max w/ that card.....

the dir 615 and 655 are both single band routers and can't take advantage of the 5ghz band, while the card is dual band. Intel also does not play nice w/ d-link since it doesn't have the atheros chipset....

wait until the N spec is finalized in 2009 to get a high quality dual band router w/ a usable USB port for hardware connections......After it is implemented we hope all the manufacturers hardware will work better together- at this time it's just hit and miss.........

 

I just got a DGL-4500. I havn't set it up yet. However from what I have read it works great with Intel 4965. Dual bandwidth, Gigabit router.

I got mine from Newegg.

http://promotions.newegg.com/d-link...romotions.newegg.com/d-link/031908/478x88.jpg

Only took 2 days for delivery.

 

I use a DIR-655 and get 130Mbp with my Intel 4965 and 300Mbp with my Lenovo Atheros card.

Upstairs I have a Tivo Wireless G adapter, Linksys WGA600N gaming adapter for the PS3, and a HP Photosmart C7180 connecting to the 655. Downstairs I have another Tivo and PS3 connected to the Ethernet port from a switch, along with the router, a Linksys Vonage adapter, and the Desktop. I have 0 connection drops with either of my laptops. The DIR-655 is a workhorse!

 

Had to call D-Link customer support to help me. They helped me get the router going but when I told them I had an Intel 4965AGN they said that they could only help me connect a D-Link card!!

So I said ok. Took me about 2 hours to figure out how to set it up. It's all good though.

I now have a encrypted wireless network. My T61p and my wife's R61 are getting 300MBPS with the Intel 4965AGN set in 5GHZ bandwidth.

I also have my desktop connected with ethernet cable.

My next step is to add the PS3.

No extra adaptors needed with the DGL-4500 if you have a Intel 4565AGN chip.

 

I hope you have better luck with Dlink than I did. The DIR 655 has the top reviews that I have read.

yet I bought one and the wireless crapped out within 10 minutes of turning on. I mean it died... deadski.... burned out.

Knowing that stuff happens I just went and exchanged it. I put in the CD to do their setup and guess what... half way through the process the CD popped up a message informing me that the router I was trying to configure was not a Dlink router and I needed to be running this on a Dlink router and it quit on me. It went back and the WRT600N from linksys came home and worked like a charm out of the box.

 

i am curious to how far away from the router you are getting these speeds?