D-Link Air Premier N Dual Band PoE Access Point, Selectable Dual Band Draft 802.11n

10 Review to this product

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  Allan Stein
  December 30th, 2010 on 1:21 am

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  I have a very large house, and I am able to get an excellent signal throughout. In fact, I was able to eliminate several additional access points I needed in remote areas of the house. They are no longer necessary. It would be nice if it were able to transmit in both frequencies at the same time. As designed, you have to pick between 2.4 ghz, which is compatible with Wireless G, and 5ghz, which has better performance in N. Much better range than the D-Link 1522, which I also own. However, it lacks the additional ethernet ports. As with most access points, setup is a pain if your router uses a different address domain. The Dlink interface for entering MAC addresses if you use mac filtering is also pretty clunky. It would be nice if you could block copy all mac addresses from other access points instead of entering each mac address separately. But overall a great product.
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  davige
  December 30th, 2010 on 4:57 pm

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  I’m an IT professional who swore by Netgear ProSafe products. However, when they replaced the WG102 with the WG103 I found myself swearing at it. The Netgear WG103 is the most buggy POS access point that I have ever worked with. So, I decided to try the DLink DAP-2553. It’s GREAT. Setup was quick and easy. The wireless N Dual-band is a plus. Range and speed are amazing. I have no complaints. I am now using DLink business class products for all new installations. Goodbye Netgear.
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  B. Levine
  December 30th, 2010 on 11:01 pm

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  I had a wired network and added WiFi later.
  
  With 3 floors in the house and Wifi router in basement near
  
  the cable box, WiFi didn’t reach well upstairs.

  So I hung this product off a wired hub in our top floor
  
  and now devices can connect from either of the 2 WiFi stations.

  For anyone who started out wired and has none at all, same setup
  
  works, but you need to install near a wired hub/switch/router.

  Of course you can also use as a wireless extender, to have
  
  2 wifi stations communicate and plug in wired devices to this unit,
  
  hence this product widens your wired network, wouldn’t extend range
  
  for your Wifi devices that way. Didn’t test for that, many other reviewers
  
  seem to cover that configuration. My config is the original idea of what
  
  an Access Point was designed to do, and this product does it well.

  Highly recommend, now have Dlink 4500 router and this Access point,
  
  and both work pretty well. I have never found any brand to be perfect
  
  but Dlink seems better than most “out of the box”.
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  Richard Strle
  December 31st, 2010 on 12:10 am

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  I’ve got 3 buildings and I wanted to split on internet connection between the three. I used a low end 4 port router to connect to a D-link PoE switch, connected two of these access points and I was in business. Easy setup, great range. I’d recommend this product to a friend.
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  GMW
  December 31st, 2010 on 5:18 pm

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  I have a 4,000 Square foot home, and was having numerous issues with 2.4GHZ wireless. Since I ran Cat6e in my house to all my current phone outlets, I really needed an 5GHZ AP that could receive power via Ethernet (POE)and that was not too costly. I looked at Cisco, but for $800, it is just too much. I picked up two of these DLink’s for $300. I must say, for the features and performance, this is a Great product. I am now utilizing 802.11N in my house over 5GHZ band, and it works flawlessly. I have one AP in my basement and the other is in my master bedroom. By having both devices, I can be anywhere in my house and on my front porch and always have a strong signal.

  The easy to use web interface only took me at most 15 minutes to setup both devices. Easy manageability with built in QoS and WPA2 Security.

  I would recommend this product to anyone who needs just the feature of multiple or single AP’s without the use of having a router also.
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  Rudimar L. Rayos
  December 31st, 2010 on 7:31 pm

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  I was getting network drops from XXXXX brand wireless router because it couldn’t handle the load. I decided to run a wired(D-Link Gamefuel) router and an “external” wireless access point. since then my network has been running trouble free. This D-Link wireless access point is well worth the money. Though it says Dual Band you can only run 2.4ghz N if you want to run A/B/G. 5ghz N mode can only be ran on that freq if that is chosen. The static ip setup was kinda hassling, and if your going to the IP of the Wireless naturally, has to be in the same IP range as the router(network). It’s got all kinds of features and even has a DHCP function, though I leave it all up to the router. Zero drops, plenty range even in 2.4ghz mode. I wouldn’t get anything else for this price.
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  Kevin from IL
  January 3rd, 2011 on 4:29 pm

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  I have a DIR-655 running a 2.4GHZ 802.11N network in my home, as all wireless networks you share the bandwidth with all other clients attached to that AP or router in my case. I wanted to seperate my home AV and my PS3 (it’s good to be the admin) from the same network that my kids use for streaming their music etc…

  Works like a champ, great signal and very reliable so far. I did not choose the DAP 1522 because I couldn’t find any data on the atennas, and with 5GHZ a little boost in DB from the antennas is a good thing. I do however use DAP 1522 as the wireless client at my entertainment center. It is a great product too, but that is another review…
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  Carl Twain
  January 3rd, 2011 on 8:40 pm

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  It took me all of 60 seconds to set it up, and it fixed the problem that I was having with my previous access point not opening all ports to my iPhone.
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  D. Schwartz
  January 4th, 2011 on 1:29 am

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  This product is the real deal. I experienced over 120 mbps throughput over 5ghz when in the same room (with laptop less than 10 feet away, with all the wireless nic’s power settings turned off (Intel 5300 nic)).

  This product offers class leading speed, reliability and POE! All for $99! Everything about this w.a.p. is fantastic except for it’s QOS setting. When enabled, I experienced huge throughput losses. So, keep the QOS setting turned off on the w.a.p. Also, it’s not simultaneous dual band. So if you want both a 2.4ghz and a 5ghz w.a.p. then this is not the unit for you.

  If you only care about 5ghz, then look no further as D-link has hit a home run with this product.
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  D. Santiago
  January 4th, 2011 on 6:46 pm

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  I had a difficult time figuring out how to get into the settings page on this AP. This is my first non-router AP so I do not know if this is standard for all APs. I had to hard wire my PC to the AP, and change my computers IP to static at 192.168.0.1 I do not understand how or why this works, but that is the only way I can access the setting page. To open the settings, the IP for my device was 192.168.0.50 I am sure you could have installed the CD and it may be easier that way, but I refuse to install software like that on my PC.

  Aside from setting it up, I notice it performs substantially better than my Linksys WRT160N Wireless N ROUTER. I replaced this wireless router with a wired router in a closet on my network rack, and added this AP to a drop in my living room, which is closer to where I usually use the wireless with my notebook.

  With the Linksys, whenever I would try to transfer files from my DNS-323 NAS the wireless not only would it be slow, it would crash every time. Now with this D-Link AP it is only slightly faster, but is yet to crash moving multiple gigabyte sized files over the network.

  This is important since my main PC that uses wireless is a 11.6″ notebook without a CD drive, so what I do is create file images of all of my software CDs and store them on the NAS. I then transfer them over my network and mount them on a virtual drive as needed. Because of this my network gets plenty of traffic, and a stable WiFi network is necessary for when I do not feel like plugging into Cat6.