SoCal99
join:2004-01-22
| reply to koitsu
No Party Trick
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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ChangeYourChannelID
@comcast.n
| 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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Zoder
join:2002-04-16
Miami, FL
| 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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koitsu
Premium
join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
| reply to ChangeYourChannelID
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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Making life hard for others since 1977. |
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atuarre
Here come the drums
Premium
join:2004-02-14
Lake Charles, LA
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1 edit | reply to ChangeYourChannelID
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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