Dlink DIR-655 Do you have one of these lurking in your network?

[Wendell Nichols]

I've been struggling with a wireless issue for some time.  I even 
switched from Suse 11 to Fedora 10 trying to shake it (which was unfair 
but I had other reasons too).  The symptom is that the wireless 
connectivity would hang periodically for 30 sec to 3 or 4 minutes.  Long 
enough to disrupt remote desktop sessions and sometimes even kill the 
vpn.  It was usually a short lived event so it didn't usually disrupt 
network browsing (indistinguishable from a slow website) and ftp clients 
and torrent clients all survived the interruptions.   Oddly enough,  
during the hang I could ping my linux router (which the dlink is behine) 
but not the isp's router. 
Anyway, to make a long story shorter I eventually checked the Dlink 
DIR-655 page to see if there were any issues related to my wireless 
router.  Sure enough there is a firmware update for, what is rather 
vaguely described as, "- Fixed WAN speed issue:" 
See:
http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=530&sec=0

I applied the update and have been very happy with the results. 
I still have network issues but now they are of the "identifiable" sort.
If you have one of these GET THE UPDATE.  The router is worthless 
without it!
thnx  wcn