Between home and office I've owned literally dozens of routers over the years and this is hands down the worst one ever, even by Dlink's low standards. It's wasted alot of my time and I'm pretty pissed off. Before I throw it out (literally) and never look back: For the record, and future google group searches, here are some facts about my experience with this model:
Lets call it "The top 10 reasons not to buy a Dlink" :
10) If you login to the router and go to the firmware section it says "Currect Firmware Version: 4.0". Currect? Nice typo. Not a big deal, but perhaps a good indication of how much DLink was paying attention when they rushed this cheapo model onto the market. It makes you wonder how many typos they left in the actual firmware. It explains a lot about how this router behaves.9) No documentation included. A little explaination about the router's setup menus would be nice. Maybe an explaination about which lights are which on the router. I feel badly for anyone whose first experience dealing with a router is this piece of junk. Even with years of experience this thing is not 'self explainatory' and its certainly not 'plug and play'. Its 'plug and pray' or maybe 'plug and PAIN'.
8) Only comes with a Setup Wizard CD. The wizard fails to setup on THREE seperate computers. It is poorly written JUNK... Why a router even needs a CD is beyond me, but once it fails your left wasting your left scratching your head without documentation and wasting your time.7) If you go to the Dlink site and look up firmware for this WBR-1310 router (as of today):
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.
4) If you actually get frustrated enough to look up DLink's tech support and call them they will put you on hold for well over 35 minutes (I write this now as I'm on hold). If you actually get through then you will speak with an overworked stressed out little person who will put you on hold for another 10 minutes but eventually can't help you at all. But they will agree that it is "not our greatest product" and they get alot of calls about it. When asked why the unit says Firmware 4.0 and the website says Firmware 1.03 they aren't sure, and they dont really care. Thanks DLink!3) CONSTANTLY LOSES INTERNET CONNECTIVETY WITH *WIRED* COMPUTERS, NEVERMIND WIRELESS!!!
2) CONSTANTLY NEEDS TO BE RESET.1) WORST ROUTER EVER.
....And now, without further due, (and before it disconnects me again), I now will DESTROY THIS ROUTER and reconnect my old reliable Linksys....