D-Link Gigabit VPN Router | Perfect for Remote and Hybrid Work | 4 Port Gigabit Dual WAN Failover | Enterprise-Grade Encryption | TAA/NDAA-Compliant | Limited Lifetime Protection (DSR-250V2)

We had a dependable 10/100 router, The best speed I could ever get through it was 45 Mbps. Which was pretty good, and good enough for me. Finally upgraded the modem (Arris, w/wifi, Comcast supplied), and connection was the same, but I knew I should do better with the faster cable modem. The 10/100 router was the bottleneck in the network. Changed to this 8 port router, 10/100/1000 (Gigabit) type) and internet speed went to over 170 Mbps. (on all connected machines) Updated firmware, even though the website was a little tricky, picking the right file. Works just fine, right out of the box, but there are lots of configurable features available, if one chooses to use them. Wired routers (without WiFi) are getting very hard to fine. We did not need, or want any WiFi built into our wired router. It would have been a redundant feature for us.

Received the newest hardware revision and updated to the V2.0 firmware immediately. Tons of options for controlling your network and viewing statistics. Very simple to use, fast throughput. I have a D-link switch running to 22 ports around my house, and plugged in I get the full speed of my connection everywhere. I have not tested the VPN features (no need) but VLAN options work great, easy to assign devices permanent addresses (like my network printers). Plays well with my WAPs too. This is how a router should work, other home ones are just toys compared to this one.Only caveat, but not enough to remove a star, all my other network devices have either brackets or screw hole slots in the bottom for wall mounting which I used to mount them in my power/network closet, this device does not have, so I had to use a couple of large zip ties to hold it to the wall. doesn't look as nice but works fine.

Although this router comes new in a pristine, unopened, package, its design and firmware are almost 10 years old. It may work fine if you can live with its default configuration - I can't. Following the browser-based setup instructions on a new laptop running the latest version of Windows 11, I found that it was impossible even to connect to the router's configuration page, using either Firefox or Edge (again the latest versions). Whether or not you specify an HTTPS connection, the browser switches to HTTPS, and then reports that the secure connection failed. Firefox and Edge return very similar errors, with the detail specifying that the site uses an unsupported protocol. Firefox suggests, almost certainly correctly, that the site may not support TLS 1.2, which both it and Edge now _require_ for secure connections. The browsers allow you to bypass certain security errors (e.g. out of date certificates), but there is no workaround for this one. Unless, therefore, you are using obsolete software to access it, you will not be able to configure this router.

I bought this to replace a DIR-655 (together with a set of DAP-2553). I am happy to say almost everything is now working to my liking and the problems I was trying to solve are fixed (in particular, availability of the Guest network from multiple access points, as well as the WAN failover - although I haven't tested that yet). However, be warned that the documentation (including D-Link KB) mostly consists of restating the obvious (i.e. the UI) and is basically useless when it comes to more advanced topics, like setting up a VLAN and ensuring VLAN separation. D-Link technical support did answer a pre-sales question correctly... but since then has failed to answer two post-sales follow-up questions. The DHCP capabilities of this router are inferior to the DIR-655 - reservations are next to useless because you can't name the devices, and the status page doesn't display the lease time, in addition to being monstrously slow. Schedules don't seem to work in association with Firewall rules. The firmware isn't being updated regularly, so the chances of getting these problems fixed are probably small. Nevertheless if you need the capabilities - dual WLANs and proper VLAN support - it does the trick. UPDATE: I've now tested failover and it works, but there are some caveats. First, by default it will take two minutes to discover that a connection is down. Second, the backup line is then brought up from scratch - it's inactive until needed - and that seems to take rather longer than it should - another one or two minutes. And finally, existing connections may timeout and will need to be re-established - more minutes. It seems that some of these are poor design choices. UPDATE: I did get a response from D-Link about the schedule issue; it was indeed a bug, and they supplied me with a beta build that fixes the issue. It also appears to improve the fail-over behavior. That deserves an extra star! UPDATE: Well, maybe not... while fixing the schedule issue, this beta build introduces other problems, including issues with failover, as well as a large number of error messages in the log on boot. There goes the star again... UPDATE: Tech Support seemed convinced that the beta firmware was better than the released version, and so I upgraded again, this time configuring from scratch. This finally resulted in a configuration that fully replaces the DIR-655 and adds capabilities. So while it was painful to configure, and there are plenty of minor bugs along the way, I'll give it five stars with a sigh of relief. Based on my experience I would budget a week of time, and four hours of work and downtime, to configure it. UPDATE: I'm taking away two stars again. Occasionally the router will update the dynamic DNS server with the address for the *wrong* WAN interface, making it inaccessible. And also occasionally, if you have a printer plugged into the USB interface, it will disconnect the printer and make it inaccessible, just because the printer has gone to sleep. These are pathetic, inexcusable bugs that should be fixed. UPDATE: Many of these issues were fixed over time. However, on two occasions new problems started to appear after a firmware upgrade. The only help from Tech Support was to suggest doing a hard reset, followed by a complete reconfiguration. This takes hours. There goes another star.... (Note : Firmware 1.09 introduced a memory leak. 1.08 however works.) UPDATE: Over time, and given the right firmware, this became a reliable and versatile router.

This unit has worked well and I have only a few complaints that cause me to rate this 4 stars rather than 5:1. Every few weeks the router has disconnected from the WAN and require a reboot or power cycle to reconnect.2. The interface is functional but not well designed. For example, determining if the unit is connected to the WAN requires going three menu choices deep (and the menus are not named in a way that helps you find it). Opening ports for outside access to things like Windows Remote Desktop requires similarly obtuse menu navigation and the documentation was of limited help. Solving the problem required a call to DLink support (which eventually figured out how to do what I wanted).All that being said the unit works for the primary purpose for which I purchased it: getting full use of the 100Mbps down/30 Mbps up service for from Comcast. The OLD (10 years?) Dlink router I had was designed for much earlier era and limited speeds to a fraction of those.