Advantages: Router & Modem in one box.
Disadvantages: User interface, documentation, functionality.

...With my last hardware review (of an 802.11g card) I realise I may have lost many readers by simply going in at the deep end… it was appropriate for that review (where only users familiar with wireless networking technology would even consider the purchase) – but the same can’t be said for this bit of kit which represents one way to take advantage of broadband internet over a standard BT phone line. Here I will attempt a gentle introduction to the benefits of buying a router of specification similar to the Dlink 504T – then I’ll expand on the specific shortcomings of this particular device. The DLink 504T is a combined 4-port Ethernet switch and ADSL modem sporting features for DHCP, DNS, NAT / PAT and Firewall. I consider it mid-priced at about £55 (more expensive than an unbranded unit with a Connexant chipset, slightly dearer than... Read review

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Advantages: Great wireless range, Futureproof, Nice looking, Fast!
Disadvantages: Some may say it looks a little chunky

...all the correct ports and making sure all aspects of the setup are working. The Wireless range of the Belkin surprised me - I was 3 houses down the road from mine with my laptop at a friend's house, and as soon as Windows booted up the laptop got a 'Good' strength signal from the router! This is quite worrying, mainly due to the fact my old DLink router would freak out if you went more than 15-20 feet away from it. Signals would drop out, packets would get lost and Web pages would half load. Setting up the ADSL connection is also very easy with the Belkin router. Simply plug the router in, turn it on, connect your PC to it and tap 192.168.2.1 in to Internet Explorer to bring up the first Setup page. And, err, that's all there is to it. The router's ability to connect to ADSL-2 when the service goes mainstream is also a big plus, as I... Read review

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Advantages: To Many to count
Disadvantages: The user interface

.... Dlink D-link is a fast growing network solutions company that offer high quality products at an affordable price. I have nothing but praise for d-link and there products. The rougher in question is a great piece on engineering. The rougher specifications are great considering its age. It came out in around 2002 and still keeps up with most of the modern roughers. 22 megabits per second is defiantly enough for any broadband connection the standard broadband will run at about 0.5 mbps so over a 22.0 mbps connection there is no problem. The rougher also come with a built in modem which will accept any speed ADSL connection, so if you have a 0.5mbps Connection or an 8 mbps connection the modem will support the link. Also if the connection ever drops for some reason the rougher will automatically attempt to reconnect. The other... Read review

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Advantages: once set up correctly you can forget all about it
Disadvantages: initial setup can be confusing

...It has taken a long time for me to get here but I have finally managed to get myself an wireless network. It took lots of investigation and searching for the right price but I have ended up with a D-LINK 624 802.11g/b wireless router. One of the best things about it is that when you have an compatible Dlink adapter you can have speeds up to 108MB instead of the standard 54MB. Mind you at one stage I was begining to wonder if I was get the network up and going at all. (And I think myself pretty computer literate). I had hunted around for a long time and finally managed to win an auction off e-bay for this bit of kit. I couldn't wait for it to arrive. When it did I went upstairs and gleefully opened the packet and connected it to my desktop. It should be noted that this device needs to be connected to another computer that has internet... Read review

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Advantages: Wide range of connection,Supurb Firewall In Built, Easy to use, Small and Stylish
Disadvantages: only up to XP capatible, Vista driver soon hopefully

...I recently bought one of these routers after my dlink blew up, I was told by a friend that buffalo made excellent wireless routers and he wasn't wrong, this router works brillantly. This router has wireless access, including 4 ports intergrated for any ethernet cable needs, its small and easy to place anywhere without it looking out of place, It has a 54mbps data transfer rate which is rather good for todays router standards, a 2.4ghz frequency band, which means it can be recieved over a good distance, but the distance can be changed using the easy browser setup. It has many data link protocols incluing Ethernet, Fast Ethernet. IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g. It also has many features to this device as, Firewall protection (never had a virus since using it), auto sensing per device, DCHP support, auto uplink, IGMP snooping, Stateful... Read review

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Advantages: 'Free' if you buy the DSL G604T :-)
Disadvantages: Becomes very hot, relatively large for a USB dongle

.... If you have a desktop then you may be better investing in a PCI card with an aerial extension for good reception/transmission. I think these USB dongles are best suited to retro-fitting laptops that came without WLAN or for those people dis-inclined to take the lid off of their desktop. Note: DLINK have released the DWL-G132 since this model, so if you want proprietory 108Mbps performance take a look at that.... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, spec is comprehensive, web management works
Disadvantages: drops connection too often, awkward to upgrade firmware, annoying whine

...I bought this kit (along with an included DWL G122 USB dongle; see my separate review) as a package from Ebuyer mid 2005 for £58. I had read all of the reviews I could reasdily lay my hands on and thought it was a bargain at this price and to a degree it is. However... Looking at the specification (see the blurb pasted at the bottom) this is a nice piece of kit for little money. It is firmly in the mainstream of wireless kit still, giving 54g performance and DLink are still releasing firmware updates (it is well over a year since product release). I've found that in practice it works well...when it works. But to get back to the beginning... I live in a large two bed apartment with telephone connections in all rooms BUT the one where I wished to place my PC. Not wanting to mess around with wiring up a new telephone line to the room... Read review

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Advantages: Reasonable price
Disadvantages: No Linux drivers

...is very easy and you can be online in a matter of minutes. Again if using WPA I found that I could only connect to the router if I used a WPA key containing hexadecimal characters only. Using a Dlink USB dongle I was able to use any alphanumeric characters. The connection itself is stable, altough I have found that the signal strength can vary during use. I tend to achieve a connection speed of 48Mbps when in a different room to the laptop. As I wanted to try Linux I decided to try installing Xandros and get the card working on that. This proved to be a mojor problem as Belkin don't make any drivers for Linux (infact Broadcom who make the chipset in the card don't make any reference drivers either). Luckily it is possible to use a program called NDISWrapper to load the windows drivers under Linux. These provided a working configuration... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap and functional
Disadvantages: Seemed fiddly to setup

...I wanted an easy way to connect to the internet from any room in my house without the aid of putting new cables in freshly decorated rooms, so based on price alone, I went for the DLink DWL 610 which could connect to my workstation (with a DLink DWL 510, basically the PCI version of the 610). Following the manual's instructions to the letter, I installed the drivers on my XP-based IBM Thinkpad laptop, slapped the card into the PCMCIA slot, and configured it as the manual showed. Oops. Spot the deliberate mistake - I followed the manual. Amazingly, after following the instructions for both cards, I couldn't get the laptop to connect to my workstation, even after fiddling with the settings, checking them and starting again several times. Not the best start really. However, after setting the IP addresses to the 192.168.0.* range... Read review

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Advantages: easy to set up wireless network
Disadvantages: comlex settings and things no-one really understands

...to find out the answers itself. basically you press next a few times and then click done. Your network should now be set up and your router will assign each computer in your network with an IP address as it connects to the internet. Simple really. If you are using d link wireless network cards they will be ready to connect with no configuring. Other cards I do not know about, sorry! Basically that is it. The router shares the internet connection automatically all by itself and you cna use your computers as you always have done. The router provides extra security for your system as well acting as a firewall. I can vouch for this as my computer alerts me to attempted attacks and since installing the router I have recieved no alerts, meaning that the router blocked the attack before it got to my pc. Can anyone hack into my wireless... Read review

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