Re: Review: DLink WBR-1310 Wireless Router

10) If you login to the router and go to the firmware section it says
"Currect Firmware Version: 4.0". Currect?

Mine always identified the firmware as 1.01. I wonder if others who've
had problems with this router also had the firmware mis-identified.
Could explain a lot.

9) No documentation included.

Although it's inconvenient, it shouldn't take anyone any time at all to
find the manual in .pdf format on the cd. (There is a newer version
available on D-link's website.)

8) Only comes with a Setup Wizard CD. The wizard fails to setup on
THREE seperate computers. It is poorly written JUNK...

I agree. The wizard failed for me also. Didn't need it anyway.

5) Lets say you hard reset the router, and start from scratch. You set
it for DHCP on the WAN. It will properly get an IP and DNS etc from
your ISP (usually). But in order to surf the web you have to log into
the router and go into the "Dynamic IP (DHCP) section" and hit "Clone
Mac Address" for it to properly work. The WBR-1310 doesnt believe in
plug in play.

Why on earth would you clone your MAC address AFTER you successfully
got an IP address from your ISP? You only need to do this if you
didn't release the IP address from whatever computer was connected to
the internet previously, (you could wait for the DHCP lease to expire
in this case), or if your ISP insists on connecting to a particular
NIC. If you're already connected, it's unnecessary. Once your router
is connected to the Internet, releasing and renewing the IP on the
connected computers should get them connected, assuming the DHCP server
on the router is enabled.

I bought this router a few weeks ago, fully intending to return it if
it didn't meet my expectations. So far I'm happy with it. It plays
well with bittorrent. It has locked up only once, but that was the day
I discovered there was a firmware upgrade (1.03) that claims to fix a
lockup issue. Right now the only problem I have with it is it won't
let me log into it's configuration utility (the web page built into the
router) after it's been running for a couple days, but it is still
doing it's job just fine. Cycling the power fixes that problem.

It's not as configurable as the router I had been using, which was a
specialized version of linux called Freesco running on an old computer,
but it's adequate, and it only cost $40.

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