I have just recieved one of these today and I am struggling to set this up with ethernet cable what the hell am I doing wrong and does this router work with virgin
any advice on how to set this up the best way with virgin please let me know as I am a total noob when it comes to this stuff
I just saw your missed call, phone me now mate. Edit: before you call, check which hardware revision yours is and download the latest stable firmware: A1, A2, A3 rev: ftp://ftp.dlink.co.uk/dir_products/dir-655/DIR655Ax_FW131EUB02.zip A4 rev: ftp://ftp.dlink.co.uk/dir_products/dir-655/DIR655A4_FW134EUb05.rar B1 rev: ftp://ftp.dlink.co.uk/dir_products/dir-655/DIR655B1_FW200b07.rar Set the WAN config manually to DHCP and set your ISP DNS servers etc. The rest after that is easy.
Okay, but late for the call now... I'll help you all I can mate, I ran mine on Virgin for years before moving house and going to ADSL. Funnily enough, I reinstalled it last weekend because I needed longer range "N" wireless than the BE ADSL router gave me. tldr; I have mine up and running again.
Thanks mate will call later at work this morning. But reading this I did it the wrong way. Must I also load up the software on my main rig using the ethernet cable. Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk
I'm just putting the kids to bed then i'll be able to help, give me 30-45 mins. Sent from my HTC Desire S
Right, let's go through this step by step... 1. Next to the power cable in the back of the router is a reset button. You will need a thin screwdriver or pencil to hold it down until all the lights go on at once. This will reset the router to factory defaults. 2. Power up the router and connect one of the LAN ports to your PC. Do not connect the WAN (Virgin) cable yet. 3. Login to the router. Default username is Admin and the default password is blank (you'll set one shortly). Once logged in, make a note of the hardware revision and firmware version which will be shown at the top of the web page. If you need a firmware upgrade, do this now before setting all the settings otherwise you will end up doing it all twice. To upgrade the firmware, click on the Tools menu across the top and select "Firmware" from the left hand menu. Unzip the new firmware to the hard drive of your PC then use the browse button on this router web page to select it and click on upload. Once done it wil prompt you to restart then login again. 4. Click on the Setup menu across the top then select "Internet" from the left hand menu. Click on "Manual Internet Connection Setup". Select DHCP as your internet connection type, untick the "Advanced DNS Service". In the "Dynamic IP (DHCP) Internet Connection Type" section, just leave it at the defaults - you can manually add DNS servers here if you don't want to use Virgin's. Save the settings and restart if it prompts you. 5. Click on the Setup menu across the top then select "Wireless Settings" from the left hand menu. Click on "Manual Wireless Network Setup". Enable wireless, name it (this is the SSID) and select "Mixed 802.11n and 802.11g" from the drop down menu. Leave "Enable Auto Channel Scan" ticked then make your wireless network visible or invisible, whichever you prefer. I would leave it visible until you get all other wireless devices connected to it. Select WPA-Personal as the wireless security mode then select WPA2 as the WPA Mode then AES as the cipher type. At the bottom type in your own SSID key/password. Save the settings and restart if prompted. 6. Once logged back in again, click on the Setup menu across the top then select "Network Settings" from the left hand menu. This is where you setup the LAN side of the router and it should all be very simple. Yell if you don't understand this part. 7. Click on the Advanced menu across the top then select "Firewall Settings" from the left hand menu. Make sure "Enable SPI" is checked. 8. Click on the Advanced menu across the top then select "Advanced Network" from the left hand menu. Make sure "Enable UPnP" is checked and "Enable WAN Ping Respond" is unchecked. 9. Click on the Tools menu across the top then select "Admin" from the left hand menu. This is where you set an admin password. Important: In the "Administration" section at the bottom, make sure everything is unchecked and that "Remote Admin Inbound Filter" is set to "Deny All". 10. Click on the Tools menu across the top then select "Time" from the left hand menu. This is where you set the time zone and time server to sync with. It should be fairly self explanatory but yell if it isn't. 11. Once this is all done, plug in your WAN (Virgin) network cable. It will be non-responsive for a minute or so whilst it auto detects your upload bandwidth etc but then it should be all good to go. The rest of the options in the router you can browse at your leisure, once you are up and running. Let me know how you get on. If you need screen pics, yell and I will add them to this post.
well did all that but when I try and reset it the lights are not flashing red. It flashes but the light s stay the same colour. But I will give it a go in the morning as I have a day off tomorrow. On leave from this coming weekend so want to get it up and running by then as I want to do refresh and load up my new hard drives
You have to hold down the rest button until they go solid (blue), then let it go. I got the colour wrong, sorry, I'll edit my earlier post.
Thanks mate got it up and running +rep thanks bud. We'll see how good it is tonight whilst I'm gaming and the ball and chain is listening to music on you tube
damn one thing I will say its not that good for gaming as I carry on loosing connection whilst in game and my old belkin never had that problem
Are you gaming via wireless or a cabled connection? You could try turning off UPnP? You could also try turning off the prioritisation - I am at work so I can't remember where exactly it is, I'll post later when I find it.
