D-link EBR-2310 4-Port 10/100 Wired Router

I consider myself a reasonably proficient computer-literate person, but I had nothing but bad times with this hardware. Switching routers should be almost as easy as changing your shirt...and it has been every time except this one. I bought this EBR-2310 to replace my old Linksys that I have to reboot maybe once every two weeks. Figured it was time to upgrade, so started researching reviews and this one came pretty highly rated. I bought it. Wishing I didn't.
Upon opening the box, there was a gigantic sticker covering the ports on the back side demanding that I run a setup cd included in the package. Me thinking maybe this was important, complied. It installs this awful network monitoring program that took me a couple of hours to get rid of completely afterward. Anyway, I plugged in all my ports (I have four wired network machines and a cable modem going in) and went into the setup to manually configure my settings from the old linksys (mac address, port forwarding, dns, etc.). Right off the bat, everything worked just fine. Maybe ten minutes of full usage went by, then slowly the bottom just dropped out to nothing at all. I rebooted the router and it slowly picked up, then steadily declined. To make a long story short, this was the case throughout my dealings with it. I endured 5 phone calls to their tech support (barely english speaking) and tried a few things they recommended that may help, but nothing worked. Lastly, they wanted me to upgrade the firmware, which I did...all to no avail. It would work decently for about ten minutes, then just slowly drift off to nothing. I would begin a download of a large file off of cnet and just watch the numbers. Start around 80-120KBps, then slowly just drop. I replaced it with my old router and have had zero problems since...with the exception of the (still) having to reboot the router once every few days because it just "freezes". Maybe I just got a bad one, but I was asked to write this review and this is my experience with it. I tried everything to get it to work, but I or it failed. Since I don't want to replace me, I'm replacing the router. Hope this helps someone.

Original thoughts:

Well, I loved the user interface from the moment I got the router. It was blazing fast for about a week ... then we added all the devices to it, XBOX 360, PS3, Wii, several wireless computers and laptops, and one wired computer. Now it runs like a dog. Randomly runs at 1MB then 8MB then 1MB ... but mostly around 2 or 3 MB with high latency. Yuck ...

When I disconnect the router and connect directly, my internet clocks at 8MB download and 800KB upload every time. 5 in a row ... so the router is clearly at fault. Sadly, I now expect to have to buy yet another router. I guess you get what you pay for ... duh.

Latest thoughts:

I flashed it with the latest firmware and waited until Rogers got their house in order (obviously crushed around Christmas time with every house jumping onto the net for gaming) and things stabilized to a decent level. Seems to be decent performance now and I don't see any reason to avoid the unit, especially for the price.

Excellent router. But I suggest not using it in conjunction with others (as in: daisy-chaining or router-to-router...it will absolutely create a bottleneck.)
But has it's own ip-addressing capability. I think it has a little built-in firewall too, which does not interfere with anything I have-anti-virus, spywareblockers etc.
I now have 2 of them, set up on separate networks. One for upstairs networking, and one for the rec room on separate lines. And they never seem to die. I install the driver (which was included with one i bought on ebay.ca) and presto!
..vee-ola! (that's for the non-french-speaking people, otherwise the word is: voi'la)it assumes responsibilities. I just can't buy enough d-link products. They have, to me, proven themselves time after time. I have d-link NiCards, and even some video cards, and again; they've never failed me.

I've used this D-Link router for over a year without any issue. It is super easy to set up, plug in, reset your modem and go!!!! It was so good when I got a laptop and decided to go wireless, i purchased another D-link!

With my cable connection, this is super fast even though i often have 3 computers surfing at the same time.

I highly recomend it!

Runs great for now. i dont want to jynx it. 2 pcs and a xbox 360 hooked into it. had a linksys and a buffalo wireless router with the pcs on it. it was okay until the 360 was introduced into our home on christmas. xbox live killed it within 15 minutes every time. it totally fried the buffalo so we had to use the linksys which was being used as a reapeater and the same thing happened. i went to best buy, got 500 ft of cat6 cable, went to tiger direct and got this thing and yesterday wired my house on it. it works great for now. if it works good for a long time ill probably get the gigabit switch as an add on.
the only reason i gave it 4 stars is becuase i could only access the configuration page in opera. i tried ie7, firefox and i kept getting an error message. so be prepared youll probably have to download opera web browser