D-Link DI-LB604 Load Balancing Router 2 x 10/100Mbps WAN Ports 4 x 10/100Mbps LAN Ports

Pros: Great if you have two internet connections and you want to load balance traffic. I setp two cable modems on this and have a mighty pc pushing several hundred torrents out on private trackers and it works GREAT! Very easy setup.

Cons: not able to plug 3 modems in to it lol.

Overall Review: Worth it.

Pros: I had absolutely no problems setting this thing up with a DSL line & a cable line (DSL dynamic IP and cable has several static IPs). Clearly, I am getting throughput on both channels. When I'm doing only one thing (surfing, or downloading) I don't notice the speed difference particularly. But, if I'm downloading a couple of things, someone's using my external-facing slingbox, etc. --- I'm still able to open an SSH connection & type without each character delaying.

Cons: The only con I can see is that the manual is good for basic setup, but they really need to expand & give sample configurations for the various advanced settings. It's quite easy to get confuseed between virtual server port forwarding, the host tab, a version of the host tab offered underneath the Basic-side menu, the multi-DMZ (which can still be modified on an individual port or group level by the firewall settings, which are under the Filter tab), then the NAT alias feature. Some things conflict with each other, others are complimentary, some are outbound/inboud only, some require bonding to only one of your WAN ports. They really need some sample configurations & better explanations (for example, running DHCP to a couple of a systems, but then having some systems be static, or running a 2nd router behind one port and the others being DHCP). Overall though, a quality product -- and I did not need to upgrade the firmware or download any software. Also, they offer free tech supp

Pros: Stable with updated firmware, many features.

Cons: Not a true load-balancing router, only fail-over capability.

Overall Review: If your looking to load balance two wan connections look elsewhere. If all you need is a fail-over go for it. It has a ton of useful features expected in today´s routers.

Pros: It turns on, and says it has a great feature set including load balancing

Cons: It constantly reboots, killing all IM connections and downloads. DLink doesn't have any updated firmware for it since initial release -- their fix was to disable load balancing, but what's the point of this router then?

Overall Review: Don't bother with this, trying something else like hte Linksys RV082.

Pros: Nice features for the price. Lowest cost Dual WAN I could find.

Cons: Didn't work out of the box. DLink makes me pay to ship back the brand new defective product. Newegg won't give refund or handle RMA - must go through Manu.

Overall Review: Router was not functional out of the box. D-Link tech support was top notch though (hence the 3 stars). Spoke good english (actually in the US if you can believe that) and were knowledgable. So my biggest complaints so far are: a) obvious quality control b) they make me pay for shipping due to there poor quality control.

Pros: Works OK as a normal single WAN router. I use it just fine with only my cable modem attached.

Cons: When I plug my DSL modem into the router so that I have a dual WAN connection (cable and DSL), the modem fails to operate for normal internet usage. For example, if I go to a site that uses a secure connection, with HTTPS:// in the URL, the websites fail with the dual-WAN connection. An example of sites that break down: internet banking, PayPal, and Google Adsense. If I want to access these sites, I must unplug one of the internet connections from the back of the modem. I can find no settings that will allow the modem to work with secure websites.

Pros: Easy setup and configuration. Good D-link tech support by phone 24x7.

Cons: Does not handle network outages on one WAN port to maintain continuous connectivity. No packet prioritization logic. Slow UI.

Overall Review: I have the D-link GamerLounge DGL-4300, the best router I've owned (also owned Linksys). I bought the LB-604 because of the two WAN ports, thinking I could double my throughput from my Cable and DSL ISP feeds. It's not designed to do that. Then it occurred to me that this unit is just a glorified Ethernet switch! So I pulled the unit. I then plugged the CAT5e cables from the cable TA and DSL TA into an auto-sensing switch. Then I connected a third cable to the WAN port of the GamerLounge. Amazingly, upload speeds improved by almost 100kpbs. D/L about the same. And better multitasking. The GameFuel function of the GamerLounge for VOIP support just smokes the QOS and "load balancing" hockum of the LB604. I can run XTorrent and have a clean VOIP call under this scenario, something I couldn't do with the LB604. So my suggestion for users looking to tie a second ISP into their network for redundancy and better multitasking: get a GamerLounge and connect an upstream switch to it.

Pros: if you are only using one internet connection, it works as well as any 20 dollar wired router

Cons: enabling load balancing made things move at the speed of dial-up, if you could get pages to load at all