D-Link DIR-615 Wireless N 300Mbps wireless Cable Router - 4 Port 10/100 Switch & Xbox Live service compatibility

this was my first experience of cable routers, as a novice I found it easy to set up and install, it seems to do the work itself.

This unit replaces an old wifi router from another company. The old one dropped connections frequently. This one was simple to set up, has not dropped a connection and gives us much faster throughput--all despite the thick old brick walls and old infrastructure in this place. We are very pleased.

I have always used cable internet, but my mum has a wifi enabled laptop and she wanted a router that would allow her to be in the kitchen with her laptop.As I have never had a wifi network in my house, I was looking for a router that is easy to set up and has a good range. The router comes with a cd that give you a quick walkthrough on how to do the initial set up. After that, feel free to enter the ip address to configure your own personal settings.While the range is good, it falls slightly short of my expectations, as I have some "wifi blind spots" in my house still, which may cause disconnections. If your looking for a mid-priced, easy to set up router then this is great.

I had thought that this was a wireless modem but it is NOT. It is only a router and you must have a modem connected to the internet to connect this to. It works ok for most of the home network wireless PC's but one would not connect to internet so went back to old wireless modem.

I bought this thinking it would be a new router -what I got what a plain white box with "virgin router" written on the side in biro. I tried to set it up manually, as I have a fairly good knowledge of routers, but hit a problem, but was unable to connect it wirelessly. Called D-Link for support and to my surprise found out that this was a router that was originally supplied by Virgin media for use with their equipment and was never meant to be sold, hence D-link were iffy about supporting it and wanted me to call Virgin. Firmware version on software was "VM" so registered to virgin media, so most of the settings that D-Link were describing to me were missing and they stopped supplying this in 2010! This was not as advertised and has been sent straight back for a refund.

It's compact, lightweight, and works a charm. Haven't had any issues with mine yet and I've had this item a ~month. Money well spent in my book!

Good wireless router with easy management and good features

The unit is fairly small and neat (large paperback sized) and was a joy to install - the CD was easy to follow and it all went completely to plan, which is not something I'm used to with computers.It's been up and running for a while now and it seems to be working well. I've had a couple of drop outs on my laptop, which are probably the laptops fault since the connection to my main computer seems stable. I've not checked the range but my house seems to be well covered.Gripes - the front of the unit is chock full of lights, many of which flash in use. It's simply too busy to have in your line of sight so on top of the set top box is out. And that's it.Oh - and Amazon made a complete hash of the order and I had to chase them around for two weeks. Three days before dispatch and then it gets lost and they wanted me to wait forever before sending a replacement...not good.[edit] The unit failed completely in July 2011 so it was a short life - it wasn't abused in any way. It was replaced by....the same model because it was incredibly cheap!