Review on 🔌 D-Link DI-784 High-Speed Wireless Cable/DSL Router, Dual Band 802.11a/802.11g, 108Mbps by Eric Ramen

About five months ago I replaced my Netgear RP614v2 with a DLink DI-784 after purchasing a Dell wireless laptop. Wireless has changed the way I think about things, especially since I can connect to work from almost anywhere! My goal is to spend my workdays sitting in a coffee shop and managing servers at work. DLink worked almost perfectly. I can get a strong signal and speed anywhere in the house with the Dell, but the connection becomes "questionable" when I go outside to the barn. Honestly it goes through 4 or 5 walls. Internally and wired, DLink connects a Linux server, my main XP machine, my wife's Dell laptop, my old Win98 machine, and occasionally a company-supplied laptop that is either wired or connected to a DLink AWG-660 card is connected. All machines are connected directly to DLink or through other hubs and switches. It is interesting to note that my Linux box (an old Intel mbd server with two P3 processors) did not communicate directly with the Netgear 614v2 or any other Netgear product at all. A little over 10/100 negotiation. I read a complaint on another listing that the DLink DI-784 does not update IP numbers from the WAN side. Not true. Ever since I installed DLink, I've been getting the same number from my ISP. I'm not using Virtual Server, Applications, Filters, or Parental Controls, or DMZ, but I do use some firewall rules set up to allow SSH access to my Linux machine from the work and friends domain allow. That works great. A NOTICE. I have IP filters on a Linux machine that only allow connections from known IP addresses. I also opened port 3389 from DLink to my XP machine to see if I can access it from a remote desktop at work. It doesn't seem to be working, but it could be a bug in the DLink settings or the company's firewall settings. I use static IP assignment for machines that stay powered on all the time (my XP box and my server). To secure my wireless network I currently use WEP SK (Shared Key) encryption and this works with laptops that also use Funk's Odyssey client as required by my employer.[.]