D-LinkWireless AC 1200 Mbps Home Cloud App-Enabled Dual-Band Gigabit Router (DIR-850L)

I upgraded from an expensive Netgear running DD-WRT because my WAN to LAN throughput was being throttled. I recently upgraded to gigabit and wasn't getting close to that on my old Netgear. No offense to Netgear, it was partially a problem with DD-WRT that's been thoroughly documented. That firmware just does so much computation that the speed is throttled if the hardware can't keep up. This is understandable, and this D-Link worked to solve that problem.This D-Link is capable of some fairly amazing speeds. It was rated at about 900 Mbit speeds for WAN to LAN. As soon as I got it home I snapped in my ethernet ports and clicked that speedtest button. When I saw 830+ Mbit coming back across my screen I knew things were better.I configured the router to use a static external IP, it didn't have a problem with that. I set it up to do port forwarding as I run a number of services on my network that need to be externally accessible. It gave me a number that I could have. I was surprised it would limit it to ~25 or whatever it said. I don't run that many services, or I don't manually require that many ports to be open, but I was close. This could be a limiting factor for another user, so beware.I got the wireless setup, but knew I didn't have any AC devices yet. My N still looks good on there; I got enough speed on my phone and iPad to know it was an improvement, despite no external antenna on the device. Honestly, my coverage was spotty directly above the device, one floor up, so I laid the router on its side and tried again. I saw SIGNIFICANT improvements. I don't know if this is because of how it broadcasts, I didn't make the thing, I'm just saying I had success with it, maybe you can too!I had a friend with a newer MacBook Pro come over to see what the AC was actually capable of. Long story short he got mad at me because he got 200 Mbit faster on my wireless than he gets at his house using an ethernet cable.The interface reminded me of every D-Link I've had in the past 5-7 years, except faster. You could tell that the chip running this router is a bit nicer than what I'm used to.I tried to find a reason to only give this router 4 stars, and couldn't think of one. It works well for people using up to 25 services. It works well for the casual user. It works well with old hardware and wireless technologies. It's not ugly. It's not too loud. Five stars.

It works as described.

No problems installing this. Great range and all my electronics run smoothly. PS3 Laptops, smart TV and phones. The problem arises when I have to restart both the router and the modem every week sometimes 2 or 3 times a week. I have been on the phone with customer service countless times and they replaced my unit. Customer service is awesome, no question about it. But the router keeps getting disconnected. We have charter 60 gigabit service and if I bypass the router plugging the modem straight into the pc everything is fine. The customer service tech had me clone my pc mac address and it worked fine for 5 days, then it started doing the same thing. I will call them again today, buy at this point I feel I wasted 80 bucks...if anyone has any solutions please let me know.

After 9 years, my old dlink 802.11G router died and I bought this one to replace it because they have earned my trust regarding building reliable routers. I paid $4 extra for one-day deliver because it is no fun going even a day without the internet. It arrived 13 hours after I ordered it and my non-techie spouse set it up before I even got home from work, so it is not complicated to configure. We have 18 devices running on it (laptops, iphones, Kindles, Chromecast, xbox, printer) mostly on the 5Ghz band. I don't have anything running the new AC standard but I expect when and if there is an iPhone6 it will probably be AC enabled. The coverage is great and there are no issues in a 4000 sq ft house, although it is centrally located. The router has lots of extra features to play with if you are into that, but it also just works out of the box, which should be your number one requirement from a router.

The router is really easy to setup for most of the usual items like PC, Laptop, Smart Phones and iPads.I discovered that my my Roku 2 xs player could did not connect automatically. Roku 2 player was working excellently with my previous router Linksys E2000. I called up Roku Support to get the problem resolved (Roku works on a channel 11 of the router).But I still face one problem. I am trying to setup a media server. I am using Twonky Beam. But some how the router is blocking the device discovery. Just to be sure that this is not a software problem or my iPad problem, I installed it on my iphone and same problem exist. Then I tried the Roku remote for iphone (Same media server different software). I am facing the same challenge. My device is not getting discovered over the wifi.So any one who is looking to buy this product, please consider the above constraint. I will try to connect with the DLINK support (not easy to find a support) for figuring out a solution. If I find a solution, I will update it in my post.Update 30-Sep-2013I have returned this item and bought a Netgear AC Router from Costco.All the above issues have gone. So looks like there something which is blocking the Roku Remote for iPad to cast the channels from iPad.Hopefully this review helps for people with casting needs.