I have this router and have recommended it for my friend (which I setup for him).
It's a great router (though, you may want to make sure you have the 1.32 firmware, not the 1.31...the 1.31 sometimes reboots itself. Found this out because I configured my router to email me logs every day).
For my house, I have it setup via wired methods, running my PS3 to the wall, which goes to my router in the enclosure in my closet.
For my friends' place, he is using wireless. Their router is located upstairs in their office, while the PS3 is downstairs (it's a town house, so there's not much distance to travel).
Setup was a breeze, if you aren't looking to a complicated network setup. Mine is setup with a lot more security than my friends' router, and both work fine.
Range of wireless is pretty good. I use the wireless for my work laptop and my wife's laptop. From our kitchen, which is almost directly below our enclosure, I get almost full signal strength.
However, from my den, my signal is pretty weak. Some things to take into consideration:
1) My work laptop's wireless is crap. It's routinely saying that it lost the connection to the network...even from the kitchen. I know it's not the router, because my wife's laptop has never shown this.
2) My den is, quite literally, on the other side of the house and down a floor.
In my opinion, you can't go wrong with this one. I haven't had any problems with the router that a firmware couldn't fix. Likewise, my friend hasn't complained about any issues either. I got mine a month or so after the router was released (Q4 2006). My friend got his last year (I think?).
There's another thread here that discusses routers. There are more reviews on the DIR-655 there.
I have this router and have recommended it for my friend (which I setup for him).
It's a great router (though, you may want to make sure you have the 1.32 firmware, not the 1.31...the 1.31 sometimes reboots itself. Found this out because I configured my router to email me logs every day).
For my house, I have it setup via wired methods, running my PS3 to the wall, which goes to my router in the enclosure in my closet.
For my friends' place, he is using wireless. Their router is located upstairs in their office, while the PS3 is downstairs (it's a town house, so there's not much distance to travel).
Setup was a breeze, if you aren't looking to a complicated network setup. Mine is setup with a lot more security than my friends' router, and both work fine.
Range of wireless is pretty good. I use the wireless for my work laptop and my wife's laptop. From our kitchen, which is almost directly below our enclosure, I get almost full signal strength.
However, from my den, my signal is pretty weak. Some things to take into consideration:
1) My work laptop's wireless is crap. It's routinely saying that it lost the connection to the network...even from the kitchen. I know it's not the router, because my wife's laptop has never shown this.
2) My den is, quite literally, on the other side of the house and down a floor.
In my opinion, you can't go wrong with this one. I haven't had any problems with the router that a firmware couldn't fix. Likewise, my friend hasn't complained about any issues either. I got mine a month or so after the router was released (Q4 2006). My friend got his last year (I think?).
There's another thread here that discusses routers. There are more reviews on the DIR-655 there.
