As I am wont to do on vacation days every other year, I decided to replace my router, a D-Link 624 Wireless G, with a new-fangled "pre-N" router. So I dropped by one of the evil chain stores after doing my research.
I don’t jump into new things without checking them out. I downloaded the product manuals for a few of the routers I was thinking about getting, reading online reviews, etc. I initially considered a Linksys router, but heard that it suffered from some speed problems. The path of least resistance seemed to be going with the D-Link DIR-625 N router. The DI-624 has been a good workhorse and quite reliable, so I felt good about going with its upgrade.
Installation was pretty easy: unplug everything old, replace, re-plug in everything. I had the wired portion of my network up and running pretty quickly. My wireless network, though, was a different story: I use WEP encryption (I know, it’s awful, but I have a large number of older B and G devices that can’t use WPA). And despite the fact that the DIR-625’s manual (page 60) gives pretty explicit information on setting up WEP encryption on the router, the router itself actually doesn’t do WEP. Nice disconnect there, D-Link.
Oh well, the upgrade will have to wait another day.
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