D-Link DI-624S Wireless Router w/ 2 USB Port, 802.11g, 108Mbps, 4 LAN Ports

(review upated 12/28/05)

I would lower my rating to two or one star, but Amazon doesn't allow this.

As other reviewers found, this product has a lot of promise, but it's got a long way to go before I give it a 5-star rating.

On the plus side, I was able to share FAT16, FAT32 and Linux ext2 partitions. This last will be critical for me, because I have files too large for FAT32 (they're video, of course), and NTFS is apparently still read-only (it's apparently RO on D-Link's other storage access products, too, like the DNS-120). I haven't yet tried to write and read a fairly large file (>2GB) to an ext2 partition, but may update this review if there's anything interesting to report (such as it doesn't work).

I've so far run into a couple of challenges. One that I managed to solve was figuring out how to map the share on a Windows box. The DI-624S shares the disks via SMB (which is what Windows networking uses, but Mac and Linux can...Read more

When I saw this product I was very excited! I have a PC and a Mac lapyop and wanted to share an external USB hard drive between them. A wireless storage adapter seemed like the perfect solution.

When I got it home and got it all setup with my internet connection it seemed to work decently as a wireless router. To my dismay though I found almost zero information about using the USB storage device feature in the quickstart guide or the manual. In addition the information that was there basically just told me how to use the routers interface to turn sharing on, nothing about how to get your computer to see or use the drive. I am fairly savy so my next step was to visit the D-Link support site. I poured over the FAQ and found zero information to help get things working. So finally I decided to call tech support. Still no luck on getting it to work and the process ended with me being told I needed to update the firmware only to have to e-mail support the next day to be...Read more

VERY VERY cool idea, but the USB implementation is the worst. It took me 2 hours with numerous D-Link reps, who were all very nice, but none of them understood how to get the network drive humming. (Of course the manual doesn't explain it either...) Finally I did get it working, the drive needs to be Fat 32 - which sucks for us Mac users wanting to name our files whatever we want... I tried to test it by transfering a 150mb file. It was going to take 2 minutes, which is VERY slow and what do you know it crashed the router on every try. This unit is going back right now unfortunately. Can't wait till they fix the issues and make it much quicker...