D-Link Gigabit VPN Router | Perfect for Remote and Hybrid Work | 4 Port Gigabit Dual WAN Failover | Enterprise-Grade Encryption | TAA/NDAA-Compliant | 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.

We had a dependable 10/100 router, The best speed I could ever get through it was 45 Mbps. Which was pretty good, and good enough for me. Finally upgraded the modem (Arris, w/wifi, Comcast supplied), and connection was the same, but I knew I should do better with the faster cable modem. The 10/100 router was the bottleneck in the network. Changed to this 8 port router, 10/100/1000 (Gigabit) type) and internet speed went to over 170 Mbps. (on all connected machines) Updated firmware, even though the website was a little tricky, picking the right file. Works just fine, right out of the box, but there are lots of configurable features available, if one chooses to use them. Wired routers (without WiFi) are getting very hard to fine. We did not need, or want any WiFi built into our wired router. It would have been a redundant feature for us.

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.

Home grade router decided to stop working after 5 years, so I finally decided to buy business quality router. Best purchase I have ever made. Ordered, delivered 2 days later. Was shocked when I could not power on, but turned out it was power supply - DOA. Had another one and router came up. After configuration all is working great and stable. Send message to D-link and new power supply is on the way. Perfect customer support.

Have been using this for a couple of years now. When traveling, I use the VPN service to have full access to my home network. I have updated firmware a few times and the newest version 2.02 has a completely new look and easier to navigate. Probably over powered for my home network, but I wanted a router that had great throughput as my ISP speed gets faster and faster. I had 50 mbps internet speed when I bought this and now the provider has increased speed to 120 mpbs (at same cost). It is more complex than typical "home network" type routers, but I would expect that in a router of this level. Has been rock solid and no need for frequent reboots. I wanted to keep wireless function separate from router so that I can upgrade wireless infrastructure from 802.11 n to 802.11 ac and I always want 2.4 and 5 ghz bands.I have not used the dual wan function, but I know that if one WAN port fails, I can just move the WAN connection to the other port and make a minor configuration change. My only gripes are that the admin web management interface is sluggish and sometimes have to wait a few seconds for a screen to appear or refresh, but maybe that is by design so that the web management is a lower system priority than the routing function. The other gripe is that the SSL VPN is either difficult or not intuitive to get working, I want to try it but have not been successful yet (although I have not really spent much time on it yet.) I have done a lot of comparisons with similar devices from over manufacturers in the same price range before buying and I still do the comparison a couple times a year and I would still buy this router again.

This is one router that can really protect your network from the outside hackers... I highly recommend this unit. Will help keep the Bad Actors out of your computer!