D-LinkDIR-601 Wireless-N 150 Home Router

I've been using this router for about six months and it has been great. The setup isn't very intuitive, but if you've had network experience you'll figure it out. If you need help D-link has a great technical support line you can call. The wireless range isn't that far, but for an apartment or small house it should work just fine. I recently upgraded my modem to a modem/router combo. This meant that the DIR-601's router functionality was redundant and would make port forwarding kind of difficult. I found it to be pretty easy though to switch from being a router to a wireless access point. Here are the instructions from the user manual to switch to a access point:If you are connecting the D-Link router to another router to use as a wireless access point and/or switch, you will have to do the following before connecting the router to your network:* Disable UPnP(tm)* Disable DHCP* Change the LAN IP address to an available address on your network. The LAN ports on the router cannot accept a DHCP address from your other router.To connect to another router, please follow the steps below:1. Plug the power into the router (DIR-601). Connect one of your computers to the router (LAN port) using an Ethernet cable. Make sure your IP address on the computer is 192.168.0.xxx (where xxx is between 2 and 254). Please see the Networking Basics section for more information. If you need to change the settings, write down your existing settings before making any changes. In most cases, your computer should be set to receive an IP address automatically in which case you will not have to do anything to your computer.2. Open a web browser and enter 192.168.0.1 and press Enter. When the login window appears, set the user name to Admin and leave the password box empty. Click Log In to continue.3. Click on Advanced and then click Advanced Network. Uncheck the Enable UPnP checkbox. Click Save Settings to continue.4. Click Setup and then click Network Settings. Uncheck the Enable DHCP Server server checkbox. Click Save Settings to continue.5. Under Router Settings, enter an available IP address and the subnet mask of your network. Click Save Settings to save your settings. Use this new IP address to access the configuration utility of the router in the future. Close the browser and change your computer's IP settings back to the original values as in Step 1.6. Disconnect the Ethernet cable from the router and reconnect your computer to your network.7. Connect an Ethernet cable in one of the LAN ports of the router and connect it to your other router. Do not plug anything into the Internet port of the D-Link router.8. You may now use the other 3 LAN ports to connect other Ethernet devices and computers. To configure your wireless network, open a web browser and enter the IP address you assigned to the router. Refer to the Configuration and Wireless Security sections for more information on setting up your wireless network.Make sure to follow step 7. I accidentally connected my modem/router to the DIR-601 through the internet port and it wasn't working. I knew better, but made a stupid mistake. As soon as I connected the router to one of the LAN ports instead, it worked great.

I bought this D-Link N150 Wi-Fi Router (DIR-601) to replace our Netgear wi-fi router. The Netgear wi-fi router was still working but it was rebooting randomly a few times a day. That told me it was time (after a few years of constant always-on usage with the Netgear) to get a new wi-fi router. I'm keeping the Netgear as a backup since it still works. I was first thinking about getting another Netgear wi-fi router because I was used to the Netgear's firmware configuration interface, but instead found this D-Link wi-fi router. It's a little smaller and lighter, but I could make it stand on its side vertically and so it could sit in the same spot where the Netgear was previously sitting. I got this D-Link wi-fi router as new via Amazon and not from one of the amazon third-party marketplace vendors. The price was good at twenty-nine bucks with the free amazon shipping.It only took a few days to receive this D-Link wifi router. When it was delivered, the retail box says D-Link Wireless N 150 Home Router and only says DIR-601 in smaller letters in the lower corner on the box. What you get inside the box is the wi-fi router, a power adapter, a blue ethernet cable (which I didn't need because I was using my existing cables), the feet-stand attachment (to make the wifi router stand up vertically), some papers and a CD. Turned off the cable modem and the Netgear. Removed the Netgear and replaced it with the D-Link. Connect my existing ethernet cables to the D-Link which is between the cable modem and a mac. Turn on the modem, then the D-Link, and the mac. And I was getting the internet. Easy ... but that was for the ethernet connection.Then I had to configure the D-Link for the wi-fi. You could use the CD that came with the D-Link to do the configuration if you have windows on your computer -- BUT you don't have to. You can set everything up online (locally) by going to 192.168.0.1 which is the configuration web page that is locally on the router. Also if you only have mac, you'll have to go to that numerical address anyways. The configuration menus are different from the Netgear, but, at a minimum, what I wanted to do was use the same SSID, the same passphrase, and the same encryption settings that I was already using -- so I don't have to change the wi-fi settings on the other computers and phones in the house. That way, the switchover from the Netgear to the D-Link would be seamless where the only complication would be figuring out the configuration menus on the D-Link. Prior to switching over, I wrote down the settings that I had on the Netgear to make sure that I had all the basics that I needed. It took me a little while to figure out the menus for the D-Link configuration as to what was what. If you don't know what you are doing, you'll probably want to use the setup wizards for internet and your wireless settings. I could go into more detail as how I set things up on my D-Link but suffice it to say that I had to go into the manual setup for each section (internet, wireless, network) to set up the D-Link with the same SSID, passphrase, encryption, etc. that I was using on Netgear. Once I had that all inputted, then the wi-fi was working fine for everything in the house.There is a tools section for changing the administrative passwords for getting into this D-Link wi-fi router. There are two users for doing the D-Link administration: admin and user. You'll want to change the passwords for both. For my purposes, I kept the password to be the same for both. The gateway name, which you can change, of this D-Link device itself is DIR-601 in the tools section of the menu. That's not the SSID of your network, but just the name (or the model number) of the device so you can distinguish it from your computers on your network. There is also an advanced section in the configuration menus for setting up virtual servers, but I didn't do anything with that.Otherwise, the D-Link N150 wi-fi router was easy to hook up and with little difficulty in going through the configuration to get the D-Link to be set up with the same wi-fi settings that I wanted to continue using.

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