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8:27 PM on 29 November, 2009

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With all due respect to the writer of this review, I feel I must disagree with their assessment of this router.

While cheap, in use this router reveals exactly why it does not cost much: the hardware is extremely weak, only supporting 32 simultaneous connections, with many other N routers supporting in excess of 200. This means that this router is extremely weak with regards to peer-to-peer technologies such as BitTorrent.

I have also found this router will crash if you keep it at that 32 connection limit for long enough.

It may be fine if you have a smaller connection (I have 50Mbit) or don't use peer-to-peer technology, but otherwise I would recommend getting a better router.

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1:22 PM on 4 February, 2012

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I am also disappointed by the performance of this. I have been lent on by the installer of our FTTH to try as I said I was nervous about a cheap router, and was told I should at least try it and we could always swap it out / give it back.

The raw performance of the FTTP channel is 108.84 MPS download and 90.14 upload, add this router running the out of the box wizards to connect it and on a wired connection I see 13.59 MBps down and 0.05MBps up, the wireless is even worse up it is having to then deal with security as well. These are the result across several runs and I am quoting the best times for the with router test and the worst for the direct.

My conclusion is either the hardware is very poor or I have somehow set it up wrong!

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For only £50 D-Link's DIR-615 router looks particularly good value as it offers an above average set of features. Wireless N performance is as always well below the quoted speeds and you only get Fast Ethernet ports at this price but D-Link's web access controls are a cut above the rest.

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Reviewed by Dave Mitchell

21 April 2008

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£46.36

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