D-link DI-514 Wireless Router

Pros: Great Price, Easy Setup, Small Form for the desktop
Cons: Bulky AC adapter takes up more space on the power strip.

Overall This is a great wireless router to build your home wireless network around. It is great in price and easy to setup. How and where I bought this We recently moved to Montana from Nebraska, and in the move decided it ...

Pros: After updating firmware this router has proven to be a full featured reliable router.
Cons: (Aug 2003)Didn't work well out of the box with my centrino tablet laptop!

Short story: Pros: After Updating to latest firmware this router has proven to be a full featured, highly reliable router. Well worth the 50 bucks I spent to purchase it!! Cons: Didn't work well out of the box with my centrino laptop! ...

Pros: di-514 is extremely affordable, works perfect and is highy customizable
Cons: none

I purchased the dlink di-514 to replace my dlink di-711, which I dropped while moving to a new house. I bought the di-514 from buy.com for $41.50 with free shipping and then there was a 20 mail in rebate. So I got the router for a total of 21.50, can't ...

Pros: Inexpensive, mac address filtering, high speed ethernet, fairly strong signal strength.
Cons: Annoying disconnection issue about every hour, wireless connections are dropped. Sometimes a bit cranky.

Well, it's a bargain wireless and 10/100 ethernet (4 port) router. MAC address filtering and a powerful firewall (but the firewall requires some experience.) BUT, one significant issue: the wireless part seems to drop wifi connections every hour or so. ...

Pros: Easy setup. Many advanced options.
Cons: None at this time.

I purchased this wireless access point, firewall, router and four port switch from BestBuy after they had a $50 dollar rebate. I also was looking for a small footprint firewall to replace a Linux IPTables system I was using. I must say I am very ...

Pros: $29 price tag, simple and dependable, small footprint (size of a paperback book).
Cons: I have no cons - it does exactly what I expect for $29.

I purchased the Dlink DI-514 as an extra router for a second DSL account at home and I am very impressed. I have been a customer of D-Link for some time and also own their DI-624, and three wireless cards. The DI-514 confirms that I continue to like ...

Pros: Great features for the budget minded home user.
Cons: Do not use in a remote office type situation. Firmware make support difficult.

After rebate, this thing was $19. So I got what I paid for, plus more. The router has some nice features. I bought it for the wired hardware router. Later I added WIFI using an Airolink 4800 NIC. The initial loaded firmware was very buggy, as is ...

Pros: Small
Cons: Wireless does not turn off, but goes unencrypted instead

Caution: you may unknowingly be providing open access to your network, but new firmware from Dlink fixes this trouble. Supposedly you can turn off the wireless function and use only the 4 port router. When wireless should be disabled, it actually ...

Pros: Connects all my direct connect computers to the Internet 90 % of the time.
Cons: Hit or miss Wi-Fi connection. Undependable internal clock.

Got my DI-514 at Best Buy on the day after Thanksgiving, 2003. I wanted it for my Wi-Fi PDA. When I hooked it up in the basement, all the direct connect computers worked fine. My Wi-Fi PDA was another story. At times it would have a great signal and at ...

Pros: Cheap
Cons: Flaky, problematic connection, overheats

I bought this router, probably for the same reason other bought this router, because it was fairly cheap and looked to have good features. As a caveat, I should say that, if one is a beginning user this router would be a good one to use. However for ...

Pros: Used the antenna from this router on my new one
Cons: Locks up, frequent disconnects, hideous UI, slow data transmission, high latency

This router is terrible. During my entire period of ownership, i thought that all wireless networking is difficult and unreliable. After replacing this with a Netgear, all of my problems disappeared immediately.

This router is nothing but trouble. It runs much too hot, and this causes it to lock up and disconnect everything. There have been countless times where I was in the middle of something online only to have this piece of trash die. Every time it would die, it would need a hard reset, and all of your profile settings would be lost. The user interface is hideous and restrictive. There are no redeeming features as a router.

Pros: D-Link is compact and cheap. Customer service good on weekdays
Cons: Weak transmission.customer service was bad on weekends.

I purchased a D-Link 514 router from Best Buy about a month ago. I bought it because the price was right. Upstairs, I noticed the signal strength varied which wasnt of concern to me at first. After repeated signal loss and no improvement I was back to the store. Too bad I had invested so much time trying to get help in trying to fix the problem. (Being on hold for ten minutes at a time is no fun!) Well to make a long story short, I returned the D-Link 514 and got the linksys router. Guess what? Its been heaven! No "cant find page" messages. Yahoo. My advice: go the extra couple of bucks, it may be worth it.

Pros: Cheap, relatively fast, PC and Mac compatible.
Cons: Sometimes can't open certain pages (not often), loses connection every so often.

Hooked into PC, but operate Mac off wireless and still configures even though the techs say it shouldn't be working on 10.3 It does disconnect from time to time or isn't able to properly open very few types of web sites, but all and all, it works well. The connection is very quick for 11mbps. Tech support does take a while by phone, but they are helpful. Never have problems with signal strength.

Pros: Usually cutthroat pricing, adequate performance -- so long as you're VERY close.
Cons: Substandard performance, mediocre online support (did not try phone support)

I lived with this router for a year before my family revolted and told me to fix the network or else. After firmware updates and switching "preamble" to long, I finally managed to eke out reasonable performance from the router, but signal drops and slow performance were pretty common.

I replaced it with a Linksys WRT54G and instantly had incredible performance. Range increased, too, with us being able to put wireless clients anywhere in the house with no problem. You get what you pay for...

Pros: I really can't think of one pro for this unit, its really a bad investment.
Cons: NEVER AND I SAY NEVER buy this router, this was a nightmare, So beware

I bought this router in July /04 for like 90$ before a 40$ rebate and this router has given me alot of troble, it took 1 entire night just to do the setup with the aid of a mechanical engineer and a computer engineer. We got it configured that night and the internet was working on all of the PC's. a few months later out of the blue i get a complaint from the other PC users in the house saying that there internet doesn't work. So i check matters out and phone the tech support ppl (took 32 minutes for someone to speak to me) and then we go through the process and the router works... The biggest fluke happens as soon as i hang up the phone the router stops working AGAIN... So i THROW it against my wall in rage, and that was the end of a router that failed to do what it was told to do, and i bet there's alot of these reburbished units on the market,