D-Link DIR655

Time really flies... It is time for my 5 year-old Netgear WGR614 wireless G router to make way for the tailo D-Link DIR655, wireless N gigabit router.

Unboxing DIR655, the box is about half of WGR614.
















Time to test the new beast. With my notebook next to the router, not problem to get full 300Mbps speed.




Move to 1st floor, still can get full 300Mbps with a little drop in signal strength, sui...



Next, install Cat6 patch cable for my desktop PC and NAS to the new router. I manage to get 24.4 MB/s transfer speed for a 700+ MB file from the Dlink DNS-323 NAS to my PC (both Gigabit setup) versus 10.0MB/s using Cat5e patch cable and old WGR614 100mbps router. Still Google around if further tweaks on the XP and NAS can further boost the transfer speed, pls stay tuned. Below test results are done by SmallNetBuilder on various NAS.



For the record, here is my PC configuration;

• CPU - Intel Q6600 Quadcore @ 2.40GHz, 8MB L2 Cache
• Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 Rev2.0
• RAM - 4GB DDR2
  
• HDD -320GB WD SATA
• NIC - Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet
• O/S - XP SP2