D-Link DIR655 won't connect to internet.

Black454 said:

chev65 said:

Black454 said:

Went back and forth with the dlink support the last few days and still not connecting to the internet. Boxed it up and returned it and back to my old linksys and working great. I was wanting to use the Dir-655 because it has great reviews when using voip. I will have to keep looking for another router with good voip manners.

That's what firmware updates are for. There is a new one for the DIR-655 dated Jan/ 28/ 2010. It probably wasn't compatible with your modem for some reason. That router works perfectly for me and is still one of the best on the market.

One of the problems fixed with a recent firmware update dated 7/20/09 > ¤ Fix when disable DHCP server and enable DHCP server, LAN PC cannot get IP.

Which I believe relates to the problem you seemed to be having.

Just to test, I just updated my DIR-655 using the latest firmware, I also saved my set up file by going to Tools/system and saving the set up file to my desktop.

The Firmware update went flawlessly and took about two minutes to complete. After that I went to tools/system and uploaded my setup file so that I didn't even need to redo my wireless setup. Just tested it out and my wireless laptop connected up as usual, no problems at all.

Actually I did my research before buying this router and saw firmware 1.33 was available. The first thing I did when I unpacked the router was update the firmware and it went flawlessly as well.

Thats good your router works fine for you. For some reason the one I had did not want to get an ip from my isp no matter what.

That is strange indeed, it was either just a bad router "very unlikely" or your ISP's modem or internet service wasn't compatible "more likely but very strange". I'm not sure if that router has to use broadband for a connection or not but it sure works well for me. :)

Maybe it was a bad router who knows. The fact that when I removed the dlink router and put the linksys 160N back in place everyone worked as it should. I would say that rules out a p roblem with my modem or ISP. Also it is not a new internet service as I have had it for 4 years or more. I mentioned I have returned the router so I am not interested in trouble shooting it any further.

Seems like if the router was bad just replacing it with another would fix the problem. I'm pretty sure there was another problem involved here but unless the router is changed out for another one we can't know for sure what the actual problem was.

I have a dual boot winxp win7 64bit ultimate and am wireless through Dlink AP and DIR-655 router. Widows 7 has no problems but Windows XP can't see the internet.

The firmware is up to date but this has been identified as a win 7 Homegroup issue from what I've read. Some are saying if you have a win7 homegroup setup no xp machines can see the internet. So thanks again MS for lack of foresight lol.

Can anyone confirm this? BTW I can connect to the network fine just no internet in xp.