D-link DI-514 Wireless Router

Pros: Great features for the budget minded home user.
Cons: Do not use in a remote office type situation. Firmware make support difficult.

After rebate, this thing was $19. So I got what I paid for, plus more. The router has some nice features. I bought it for the wired hardware router. Later I added WIFI using an Airolink 4800 NIC. The initial loaded firmware was very buggy, as is ...

Pros: Cheap
Cons: Flaky, problematic connection, overheats

I bought this router, probably for the same reason other bought this router, because it was fairly cheap and looked to have good features. As a caveat, I should say that, if one is a beginning user this router would be a good one to use. However for ...

Pros: di-514 is extremely affordable, works perfect and is highy customizable
Cons: none

I purchased the dlink di-514 to replace my dlink di-711, which I dropped while moving to a new house. I bought the di-514 from buy.com for $41.50 with free shipping and then there was a 20 mail in rebate. So I got the router for a total of 21.50, can't ...

Pros: After updating firmware this router has proven to be a full featured reliable router.
Cons: (Aug 2003)Didn't work well out of the box with my centrino tablet laptop!

Short story: Pros: After Updating to latest firmware this router has proven to be a full featured, highly reliable router. Well worth the 50 bucks I spent to purchase it!! Cons: Didn't work well out of the box with my centrino laptop! ...

Pros: $29 price tag, simple and dependable, small footprint (size of a paperback book).
Cons: I have no cons - it does exactly what I expect for $29.

I purchased the Dlink DI-514 as an extra router for a second DSL account at home and I am very impressed. I have been a customer of D-Link for some time and also own their DI-624, and three wireless cards. The DI-514 confirms that I continue to like ...

Pros: Inexpensive, mac address filtering, high speed ethernet, fairly strong signal strength.
Cons: Annoying disconnection issue about every hour, wireless connections are dropped. Sometimes a bit cranky.

Well, it's a bargain wireless and 10/100 ethernet (4 port) router. MAC address filtering and a powerful firewall (but the firewall requires some experience.) BUT, one significant issue: the wireless part seems to drop wifi connections every hour or so. ...

Pros: Connects all my direct connect computers to the Internet 90 % of the time.
Cons: Hit or miss Wi-Fi connection. Undependable internal clock.

Got my DI-514 at Best Buy on the day after Thanksgiving, 2003. I wanted it for my Wi-Fi PDA. When I hooked it up in the basement, all the direct connect computers worked fine. My Wi-Fi PDA was another story. At times it would have a great signal and at ...

Pros: Great Price, Easy Setup, Small Form for the desktop
Cons: Bulky AC adapter takes up more space on the power strip.

Overall This is a great wireless router to build your home wireless network around. It is great in price and easy to setup. How and where I bought this We recently moved to Montana from Nebraska, and in the move decided it ...

Pros: Small
Cons: Wireless does not turn off, but goes unencrypted instead

Caution: you may unknowingly be providing open access to your network, but new firmware from Dlink fixes this trouble. Supposedly you can turn off the wireless function and use only the 4 port router. When wireless should be disabled, it actually ...

Pros: Easy setup. Many advanced options.
Cons: None at this time.

I purchased this wireless access point, firewall, router and four port switch from BestBuy after they had a $50 dollar rebate. I also was looking for a small footprint firewall to replace a Linux IPTables system I was using. I must say I am very ...

Pros: effective, cheap, good tech support
Cons: it died. tech support died August 1, 2007.

Bought this in October 2004 and  had very few problems with this router during the time it worked. Setting it up took some work but after that it did great. Range was good, I was pleased. But sadly, it died. Now I turn it on and get a green flashing WLAN light and it outputs no signal. I can't even login to the setup screen. I suppose in today's world I should be happy with 4.5 years out of an electronic device that was pretty cheap to start with. The expensive ones probably wouldn't have lasted any longer. D-Link told me they discontinued tech support August 1, 2007 -- so that tells you how long they expected it to last.

Pros: Used the antenna from this router on my new one
Cons: Locks up, frequent disconnects, hideous UI, slow data transmission, high latency

This router is terrible. During my entire period of ownership, i thought that all wireless networking is difficult and unreliable. After replacing this with a Netgear, all of my problems disappeared immediately.

This router is nothing but trouble. It runs much too hot, and this causes it to lock up and disconnect everything. There have been countless times where I was in the middle of something online only to have this piece of trash die. Every time it would die, it would need a hard reset, and all of your profile settings would be lost. The user interface is hideous and restrictive. There are no redeeming features as a router.

Pros: Cheap.
Cons: Unreliable, unfriendly, annoying.

If I use it wired, it works well enough, but it often drops the wireless signal. I can fix that by power-cycling it, but it doesn't have an on/off switch, so I have to lift it and pull out the power cord briefly. Even though the Ethernet cables snap in, a slight tug will disconnect them (without unsnapping them), so I have to push them all back in after power-cycling.

The router is controlled by a web interface, which is a good idea but poorly executed. The different screens are confusing, and the help feature only tells me what I already figured out.

It's easy to set up if you don't need to do anything special.

Pros: great price
Cons: wireless needs attention

The wired portion of router works OK, wireless is terrible needs to be reset every few days or after downloading big files.

Pros: Cheap... if you simply want a router (but not wireless)
Cons: need to reconnect every 5 mins

Worked for a month or two.. .with the latest firmware - but worthless. I get my wireless connect drop every 5 minutes.