atuarre
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join:2004-02-14
Lake Charles, LA
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Re: No Party Trick
I've had linksys wireless routers cut out (not reboot) on me while using a 2.4ghz cordless phone, but that was only under 802.11B. As soon as you hung up the phone, connectivity was restored. I have recently hard wired that PC to the network because I got tired of being disconnected and did not want to pay money for the Wireless G routers that were coming out (they had just come out). |
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koitsu
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join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
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I think the whole "rebooting when the cordless phone rings" thing is a shennanigan. I have a 2.4GHz phone which I used constantly while online with the DI-614+ and the DI-624.
However, much to the defence of those who DO have the reboot problem when 2.4GHz phones are in use -- I disable the wireless interface of all of my routers, simply because I have no need for it.
But, with that fact in mind, the D-Link units continued to reboot, especially when handling DHCP/BOOTP-related packets, particularly over the LAN (i.e. Static DHCP).
People need to realise that D-Link isn't even making these products, none the less the firmwares. They're subbing all of this out to the actual manufacturer of these units, who is located in China. Trendware is another company which buys the same units from the aforementioned Chinese company, except that Trendware's firmwares *WORK*. I find this very disturbing...
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Zoder
join:2002-04-16
Miami, FL
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The thing with that is people are reporting the problem with the phones only occurs when Super G enabled. Super G uses channel bonding so you can't change the channel from 6. Now you could just get around the problem by turning Super G off, but ironically, that's one of the major selling points of the DI-624. Otherwise, you could have bought the 524 which doesn't include Super G. |
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ChangeYourChannelID
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Um... just out of curiosity, have any of you people who are having the "random resets" when your phones ring (I'm assuming you mean cordless, 2.4 GHz phones) try switching the channel ID that your router is operating on? Default is usually 6... try something like 4. Maybe your cordless phones are running on the same channel ID and interfering with it. |
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SoCal99
join:2004-01-22
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Having the router reboot every time the phone rings is a REAL PAIN IN THE ASS! I've seen 4 fw versions since I first purchased it and none have addressed the issue! And when the router reboots it reboots every 6-7 seconds until you hang up the phone. The problem is, that it not only effects the wireless connection but you lose all the wired connections while in the reboot cycle from hell.
I'm not sure what's worse, Dlink's refusal to address and fix the problem, or the idiots that feel the need to defend Dlink and call the phone reboot issue "normal behavior". Ok its Dlink refusal to fix the problem!!! |
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koitsu
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join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
| Ex-D-Link user.
I can talk for days about D-Link products, and just how absolutely unreliable they are on a firmware level. But I've had mirrored experiences with 3Com and Netgear as well.
These companies either repackage third-party routers (Netgear = Zyxel, D-Link = Some Chinese vendor who also sells their units to Trendware), and sell them under their own brand name with a couple firmware tweaks -- 3Com actually makes their own. There is absolutely NO QA for these things; they may work for the average college dorm room idiot, but when it comes to actual stability and needing features that make NAT useful, they fail miserably.
D-Link in particular has wonderful flaws in "their" IP stack too, causing the unit to reboot on certain types-of malformed IP packets. This is something no one should put up with. Hardware-wise, D-Link's home routers are pretty decent, but as has been proven time and time again, everything boils down to the software driving the hardware.
After going through 6 different router brands and models, I finally ended up saying "screw it" and going with the Linksys WRT54G -- which, for the record, runs embedded Linux. I've been absolutely thrilled with this unit, as it has yet to fail me in any way shape or form. It's reliable as hell, stable, and has more features than I can count. The source-code was also released to the public by Linksys/Broadcom, and there's a project called wifi-box which has taken up making unofficial firmwares which are absolutely fantastic. I've donated money to the project, and also plan on dedicating some of my time to fixing up a lot of the nasty HTML in the UI so that it renders quicker and more reliably in non-IE browsers.
My condolances to all the D-Link DI-614+ and DI-624 users. I know exactly what you're going through, and my only recommendation is to buy something else (see above) and sell the D-Link unit you have on eBay.
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