D-Link Xtreme Gigabit Router (DIR-655) Wireless N300, USB SharePort, Gigabit D-Link Xtreme Gigabit Router (DIR-655) Wireless N300, USB SharePort, Gigabit

Pros: As soon as I switched to this router, ping times stabilized significantly and throughput was noticeably superior. It seems like a really solid router.

Besides the stability, this router has extremely flexible and pretty extensive configuration options.

Cons: The admin interface, while providing a great amount of flexibility in what you can configure, is highly counter-intuitive and quite frankly poorly written. Setting this thing up for our particular network topology was more painful then if I had just had access directly to the config files.

Worse than that however is that it's DNS resolution proxy is broken. Ever since we switched to this router we've been getting very sporadic and random DNS entry lookup failures. Very random and definitely not our ISP's problem (we've set it to use primary Google public DNS and secondary Level3's DNS). It's an annoyance but the issue usually self-resolves for that particular hostname. I have not figured out how to tell it to not try to proxy DNS (I have that DNS security option turned off, whatever it's called). It's still possible that Google is to blame, but that's a hard call to make.

The LEDs are extremely bright and bootup takes a bit longer than you would expect for a wireless router, but those are extremely minor things.

Other Thoughts: Once you're setup and
It's range seems about comparable to all other wireless routers I've owned.

Pros: Worked well for less than 2 months. Easy to install

Cons: lasted less. Than 2 months and then called Mfg. and after talking them for 30 minutes , it was determined to be "defective". I returned it and bought a Cisco Router.

Pros: Rock Solid Gigabit transfers between machines at home.

Cons: I play games a lot.. several of them download patches using Torrents. I have noticed that once it starts using 2/3rd my bandwidth or better.. none of the computers can do anything while the download is still going..
I've had to reboot the thing several times because of this. If you work with torrents as a gamer or for your work.. you won't like this router.

Pros: Fast and great coverage when it works.

Cons: My XBOX always gets a connection error prompting to reconnect back with Live. I don't get this problem with another 54G modem. Its probably a bug or HW issue.

Other Thoughts: They need to upgrade/release a new firmware that will fix the issue many other people (i read online) are experiencing.

Pros: easy set up,( if you follow instructions ) for routing and switching. no problems in those areas to date.

Cons: after two days of trying different settings and fixes, i finally gave up on using the usb " share port " i could only actually see the printer on the new windows 8 machine, not the 3 older xp machines. ( this could be a win 8 issue )

Other Thoughts: overall i haven't had anything else bad to say about this router, much better range and speed , both wired and wireless than the old router. but that may just be from upgrading from g to n : )

Pros: Great speeds with this router and easy initial setup for simple Networking, or just setting up Wireless.

Cons: I'm a Networking and Systems Admin and have setup many networks. This is the only Router that I have been unable to successfully setup Port Forwarding for SubSonic. After some research I found that you have to use the Virtual Server Option to forward the incoming traffic to the server behind this Router. This has not worked either.

This is the only Router that I have not been able to successfully set this up with and am considering just cutting my losses and replacing it for this fact alone.

Other Thoughts: All in all if you are wanting a good simple wireless router and don't need to use port forwarding, or the virtual server aspect of this device it will be great for you.

For those of you needing to utilize Port Forwarding or setting up a complex network, stay away from this one.

Pros: Fast, easy to configure, nice design, wireless n format support

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Stopped working after one year of usage, just after the warranty expired.

Pros: NONE

Cons: If your using only wired it's ok, if your using WiFi save your money. Google Dir655 wireless problems. This thing goes for a time and then stops working with wifi. I'm replacing this weekend and it's going out for the trash!

Pros: Nice when it works...

Cons: Drops connections frequently.

Other Thoughts: I've had this for a bit over 2 months. I purchased this because I have one that is a few years old and it has been flawless. The new one drops connections randomly. Wired and wireless. Sometimes I can reset and sometimes it takes a power cycle. It will drop a computer(s) while the others are fine. Next time it will be a different computer. This is with different versions of Win7 and Linux. The best part. I've tried to contact d-link through e-mail a few times over the past few weeks and no reply. Go figure. Still 10 months left on what is turning out to be a worthless warranty.

Pros: -Easy setup
-Router Config page has a good amount of options

Cons: -Drops wired and wireless connection often (had to reset at least 1-2 a week)
-Default settings need to be changed dramatically for many uses
-Randomly, some webpages won't load for different people on the network
-Cannot handle P2P connections well at all (even when global # of connections is very small)
-bad customer support (seriously dlink, if my warranty wasn't past due I'd be asking for a refund in a heartbeat)
-for this price, there is 0 bang for your buck.

Other Thoughts: First one was a bust, got it replaced by DLINK after being on hold for 50 MINUTES. I then had to pay for shipping, after this experience, I will NEVER buy from dlink again.