I'm looking to replace my d-link dir-655, as it seems to spontaneously restart under heavy load. Does this have any similar restart issues?
1844542
No, it works fine and if your internet carrier is good/fast you will have great WiFi @home or office. This little device is worth its price!! Never had issues to re-start since I purchased last year
2067484
No Idea. but mine works great, so I never worried about it, especially since it was so cheap. My thinking is , if for some reason it craps out after a couple of years , I will just replace it. The people I bought mine from are awesome as far as customer service goes. I called them and they just took over my computer with my assistance, and they set it up from their office. Print the setup pages when they are done should you have to set it up again . This way you have a printed copy of all the ports, IP addresses , etc. etc. Good Luck Bob
1210305
I have not had any trouble at all with mine. However, I will admit that I only use it as a backup drive and it is only on about once a month for the length of time it takes to back up the drive it is linked to.
1276030
I don't know that, but I would seriously look at the rating on this drive. Mine died an early death and I'm not the only one this has happened to.
721289
Im not quite sure. But there is a manual guide either inside the box, or online. Log in Dlink website and you can search for the manual easily
2080494
The best answer is that my WD unit liked it. If you have a newer model/version - then I can not answer but I know they would not want to mess with something that is working for now. Besides, it is cheep and if it doesn't work your only out a few bucks.
2256217
mine is working fine wiith one exception...the signal strength is somewhat weaker than my old d-link router
926434
Although I don't own this particular drive, I am here as I am looking to buy this one also to add to my two other Seagate 500gb Freeagents that I already have that have been working flawlessly for me for over 12 months now. I honestly think that your experience was most likely caused by a faulty unit. Without knowing your computer configuration (windows, mac or linux) it's hard to say if any extra steps would need to be taken to set it up, but for a windows or linux based pc it should be simply plug and play in my experience. As you see on this site, there is only one bad review of the product. If you think about how many of these must get sold every year, one bad review is pretty good as almost everybody will take the time to complain, but very few will come back to write a positive review as a working product is what most people expect. So I guess the short answer from me is yes, I would give this drive a second chance, but then again, i may be biased by my great experience. I hope that this is of some help to you..
600316
Thank you for this information. However, I understand that I must first uninstall the D-Link drivers, but I do not know how to do this without uninstalling this everything else associated with this product. Is it possible to send me step-by-step instructions? I am gratefully for your help with this. Fran
2205001
My refurb was a revision 1 which was important to me since I needed to install DD-WRT. Make sure everything works properly right away, though, since I ended up with a weird one--it works with the included LAN cable in the WAN port, but not with any other cable I've tried since. Refurbs can be odd birds and hiding places for trouble.
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Not surprised, the one I had started dropping the network connection completely and had to be restarted to get it back. After hours on the phone with dlink, they blamed my ISP. I called my ISP and blamed dlink, through all this I made several attempts to bridge this router with my modem/router, to no avail. I gave up and got switch and used my ISP's wireless connection via the modem/router.
1972709
I was JUST reading through some of the reviews and one of the folks seemed to list this exact problem - though they were using a Tivo. It seems too similar an issue to be an anomaly: sadly the reviewer determined that after unplugging the drive and starting his DVR back up again, all of the problems vanished, leading him to the conclusion that it was the drive and NOT the DVR. Your best bet is to do the same - remove the drive and see if the DVR functions normally. If so, then you know the drive is faulty. Good luck!
563274
I don't know why someone would say that. I have found them to be the most reliable drives I have ever owned. In fact, I can honestly say that I have never had to replace a Western Digital RE drive because of a failure. We have replaced some that were small enough to be obsolete, but in my recollection have never replaced one for any other reason in 9 years of business. Of course, your mileage may vary. We do make sure to keep them cool.
836173
I only used one external drive so I don't know if it would switch over. What I have found is that the D-Link setup will fill up a 1T bit external drive quickly if you don't delete anything. I don't know if it can use a bigger external drive.
80670
I have found the drive to be reliable over many months of porting between multiple computers. I have no power issues using the Firewire 800 port. I have not experienced any loosening of the port and have used it extensively interchanging between multiple machines (iMacs) as noted above.
260567
I'm planning on doing the same thing but only have a week or two experience with the enclosure so far. The first one failed and was quickly replaced without much fuss. So far no troubles with the new enclosure though I have not started moving files to the drive. If you are leaving it on for 24 hours you may find the blue LED a waste of energy and annoying in a darkened room. I think it would be a simple matter to unplug the LED. There's no reason it should affect the use of the drive/enclosure.
1029560
This thing is a waste of money its junk dont buy it buy dlink AC750 instead save yourself a bunch of headaches hope that helps.