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DLink routers have terrible software

Bought a DLink router. Took me 2 hours to figure out how to connect to it. I had to change my static IP from 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.0.100. If the 3rd octet is not a 1 it won’t connect. Found this out indirectly through the manual, although it wasn’t stated explicitly. Took me another 2 hours […]

Bought a DLink router.

Took me 2 hours to figure out how to connect to it. I had to change my static IP from 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.0.100. If the 3rd octet is not a 1 it won’t connect. Found this out indirectly through the manual, although it wasn’t stated explicitly.

Took me another 2 hours to figure out how to get on the internet. I was never able to get it to automatically find the DNS servers. I had to manually set the DNS server, from back when I had a static IP through the business account. A normal user would have never been able to do this.

I don’t know how they sell these things. I’m returning it tomorrow just on principle.

One reply on “DLink routers have terrible software”

Normal users have automatic IP addresses. If you bothered to change the IP, you would have usually known that you have to change the subnet mask too for the third octet to be 1. And normaly you also have to know the DNS address, because your ISP gives you one in some booklet.

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