D-Link Gigabit VPN Router —Perfect for Remote and Hybrid Work —4 Port Gigabit Dual WAN Failover —Enterprise-Grade Encryption —Follows TAA/NDAA—Limited Lifetime Protection (DSR-250V2)

I bought this to replace a DIR-655 (together with a set of DAP-2553). I am happy to say almost everything is now working to my liking and the problems I was trying to solve are fixed (in particular, availability of the Guest network from multiple access points, as well as the WAN failover - although I haven't tested that yet). However, be warned that the documentation (including D-Link KB) mostly consists of restating the obvious (i.e. the UI) and is basically useless when it comes to more advanced topics, like setting up a VLAN and ensuring VLAN separation. D-Link technical support did answer a pre-sales question correctly... but since then has failed to answer two post-sales follow-up questions. The DHCP capabilities of this router are inferior to the DIR-655 - reservations are next to useless because you can't name the devices, and the status page doesn't display the lease time, in addition to being monstrously slow. Schedules don't seem to work in association with Firewall rules. The firmware isn't being updated regularly, so the chances of getting these problems fixed are probably small. Nevertheless if you need the capabilities - dual WLANs and proper VLAN support - it does the trick. UPDATE: I've now tested failover and it works, but there are some caveats. First, by default it will take two minutes to discover that a connection is down. Second, the backup line is then brought up from scratch - it's inactive until needed - and that seems to take rather longer than it should - another one or two minutes. And finally, existing connections may timeout and will need to be re-established - more minutes. It seems that some of these are poor design choices. UPDATE: I did get a response from D-Link about the schedule issue; it was indeed a bug, and they supplied me with a beta build that fixes the issue. It also appears to improve the fail-over behavior. That deserves an extra star! UPDATE: Well, maybe not... while fixing the schedule issue, this beta build introduces other problems, including issues with failover, as well as a large number of error messages in the log on boot. There goes the star again... UPDATE: Tech Support seemed convinced that the beta firmware was better than the released version, and so I upgraded again, this time configuring from scratch. This finally resulted in a configuration that fully replaces the DIR-655 and adds capabilities. So while it was painful to configure, and there are plenty of minor bugs along the way, I'll give it five stars with a sigh of relief. Based on my experience I would budget a week of time, and four hours of work and downtime, to configure it. UPDATE: I'm taking away two stars again. Occasionally the router will update the dynamic DNS server with the address for the *wrong* WAN interface, making it inaccessible. And also occasionally, if you have a printer plugged into the USB interface, it will disconnect the printer and make it inaccessible, just because the printer has gone to sleep. These are pathetic, inexcusable bugs that should be fixed. UPDATE: Many of these issues were fixed over time. However, on two occasions new problems started to appear after a firmware upgrade. The only help from Tech Support was to suggest doing a hard reset, followed by a complete reconfiguration. This takes hours. There goes another star.... (Note : Firmware 1.09 introduced a memory leak. 1.08 however works.) UPDATE: Over time, and given the right firmware, this became a reliable and versatile router.

Bought to add a second WAN connection for my WFH setup. Router connects to both WANs fine, but connection between WANs and LAN was extremely poor. IT appears to be in internal DHCP server issue of some sort. Regardless of settings DNS information was not always being successfully passed to the LAN and sometimes LAN clients would not receive IP addresses. Very disappointing.

Router. Works with Virtek lasers.

I took a chance since the Amazon listing said 240 VAC (eg. European etc.), but being sold in the USA on Amazon's USA web site, I felt it probably was USA compatible, meaning 120 VAC, and was glad to see that was a correct assumption. This surely will avoid a number of returns, and folks avoiding purchase thinking this was the wrong voltage, when it is, in fact, correct for USA. (120 VAC plug etc.). OK, and sure, it is a legacy product, but seriously, docs on a CD rom, and a serial port cable for console device. Just a good thing I'm a dinosaur and still have a CD drive and serial port on my PCs, most have neither these days. Although, I suspect the same PDF is on the web and the serial cable can also be the USB port for you modern folks. Since it has only RJ45 (and one USB), I'm assuming it is NOT a WIFI device, so I have not a clue why the ratings ask about the "WIFI Signal" which really needs a "N/A" answer. Geeshe. But seriously, I believe this to be a solid product, but this is simply first impressions.

This unit has worked well and I have only a few complaints that cause me to rate this 4 stars rather than 5:1. Every few weeks the router has disconnected from the WAN and require a reboot or power cycle to reconnect.2. The interface is functional but not well designed. For example, determining if the unit is connected to the WAN requires going three menu choices deep (and the menus are not named in a way that helps you find it). Opening ports for outside access to things like Windows Remote Desktop requires similarly obtuse menu navigation and the documentation was of limited help. Solving the problem required a call to DLink support (which eventually figured out how to do what I wanted).All that being said the unit works for the primary purpose for which I purchased it: getting full use of the 100Mbps down/30 Mbps up service for from Comcast. The OLD (10 years?) Dlink router I had was designed for much earlier era and limited speeds to a fraction of those.