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September 05, 2006
D-link DI-624 Firmware
broadband » Forums » D-Link » [Info] D-Link DI-624 Rev.C Firmware 2.76b05. Wow, who would have ever thought the world is this complicated. These are a series of discussions on the various flaws in D-link firmware.
I've been using v2.70 with WEP on, since WPA seemed unreliable. It has been stable for me pretty much, although we usually power off the router when there is a problem. I would like to get to use WPA2 with AES encryption as this is the most robust, but it is tricky to find a D-link release that does it. I run it without any Super G and with 802.11g only which is supposed to improve performance.
Here's a catalog of versions and problems:
- 2.76 Beta 5 (only on D-link Germany).
- 2.75 Beta 2. This was up last year 2005-07. It has since become just 2.75. Quite a few folks have seen this become 2.75 without a beta, but report problems like rebooting every 10 minutes and trouble connecting with a Broadcom chipset in an HP laptop.
BTW ftp.dlink.com has raw versions of just about every firmware you need, specifically for my DI-624 Rev C, the software lives in ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/di624_revC
Some other aside, since the D-link outputs at http://192.168.0.1/natlist.txt a real time connection list, two folks have done Windows utilities that reformat that so you can see what's happening. They are D-link Connection Monitor currently in version 1.7.95 and Router Monitor 0.91 Beta which does about the same thing.
Also, this router allows you to use NTP to make sure the time is correct in it. If you fill in us.pool.ntp.org, you'll get a pool of US servers with the correct time. Last complexitiy is that this thing makes you set the Daylight Saving Time hours, but in 2007, these time change due to legislation so that it starts a month earlier in the first week of March intead of April. So beware!
Posted by rich at September 5, 2006 01:15 AM
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