DLink is dead to me.
First we deployed some of the 2310 series on the recommendation of an IT consultant that many of our customers used. Those models had a 100% field failure rate and worse, many died a long lingering death where they made the Internet seem extremely slow, and you can guess who got blamed for that. Then they had the DIR-601/615 which had a defective “QoS Engine feature” that had to be disabled or theupstream would be extremely slow, and a security bug which left UPnP exposed on the WAN side which they refused to fix in any but the final hardware version. DLink has a long history of security bugs and got such a bad reputation that you rarely see their products for sale anymore. A quick Google search for DLink security vulnerability comes up with this: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/10/19/serious-d-link-router-security-flaws-may-never-be-patched/ Over the years I have seen many similar articles. All home router manufacturers have a poor record for security vulnerabilities, but DLink just doesn’t seem to care. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Daniel White Sent: Saturday, August 3, 2019 9:09 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>; TJ Trout <t...@voltbb.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Testing used customer wifi routers Why are they returned from the field? If it's a disconnect... then default and redeploy and should be okay. Your installer should verify functionality before they leave. Granted this is apples and oranges... but back in my WISP days using D-Link 802.11G routers it wasn't an issue. If you replaced a router onsite for whatever reason... immediately put it in the garbage bin. Jacking around too much with a testing regimen is going to probably cost as much as the truck roll long term :-) I would question though why do you have consumer grade routers being returned from the field? Make them a part of the install the customer keeps, or better yet move on to a managed Wi-Fi system and get some extra revenue. My 2 cents <https://atheral.co/wp-content/uploads/Atheral-Logo-Vertical-Grad-150px-x-86px.png> Daniel White Co-Founder - Business Development & Operations phone: +1 (702) 470-2766 direct: +1 (702) 470-2770 TJ Trout wrote on 8/2/19 21:50: Does anyone have a testing regiment for Wi-Fi routers that have been returned from the field that are still serviceable? I have a huge pile and I'm scared to deploy them as the cost of an additional truck roll outweighs biting the bullet and giving each new subscriber a brand new router but the cheap ass in me can't throw these away so I was thinking that if I could somehow automate a testing setup and run them for a week or two I would feel more comfortable putting them back in the field... I'm talking about Netgear Linksys D-Link etc Or am I crazy
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