Open letter to D-Link

[Ali]

Thought this was interesting. Its great what big corporations can get away with. To be honest, its probably all down to one or two developers inside D-Link though.

http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/dlink

Suck to have this happen to you.

Ali

 

[Guden Oden]

I've upgraded the firmware of my DI604 three times now and it still keeps dropping the IP for no discernible reason and giving me an internal 192.168.0.x IP as the outbound IP. Naturally this causes me to lose my net connection, and this has frequently happened during gaming or simply casual websurfing.

Sometimes, pulling the plug out of the router fixes it. Sometimes it does not, and I have to turn everything off, including the PC.


Guess this is just another reason to say "screw you" to Dlink.

 

[StefanS]

I don't know why but I've stayed away from DLink's products for quite a while. I'll rather shell out a few more bucks and buy more quality instead of gettting bothered.

 

[digitalwanderer]

Nuts, I just got a D-link router and installed it the other day and am really liking it.

 

[Ali]

I use to use D-Link all the time. In fact, my old work, my brother, and my parents all have D-Link routers because of me. I stopped using them cos they bugger up VPN networks pretty well.

Using a Linksys now, and it also buggers up VPNs, even though its got a hardware endpoint. Maybe Im doing something wrong?

Never had any problems using Thompson Speedtouch routers, pity they cost 10 times as much as the linksys.

I just feel sorry for the guy who is getting screwed by D-Link.

Ali

 

[Guden Oden]

What's so funny is (well, not, I guess) is that while this poor guy in denmark keeps getting spammed by DI604 users like me, the DI604 doesn't ACTUALLY set the time/date automatically... It resets every time I have to pull out the damn power cord!

I don't know wether I should laugh or cry.

 

[KimB]

This is just horrible. I mean, this sort of thing should have been fixed since the whole University of Wisconsin debacle (linked to on the bottom of the open letter), and back then NetGear actually seemed to show interest in resolving the problem (though it took them some time).

It's a good thing I swore off D-Link a long time ago (bought a TV card, of call things, from them that was absolutely horrible).

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

Pity the guy can't find/afford a US lawyer to sue Dlink. There are laws about accessing computer systems without permission both in the US and the EU.