Wireless Dual Band N 300+ Mbps Wi-Fi Gigabit Range Extender and Access Point (DAP-1522)

I purchased two of these units, because I can't stand buying proprietary accessories which I believe should be included, One for myself, another for a friend. Mine is used to hook up a samsung BDP 1600 (which samsung requires a wireless dongle for 80.00) for netflix, pandora, youtube and blockbuster access, an XBOX 360 (wireless N dongle 100.00), and soon to be a WII. Buying this bridge and not buying the ridiculous wireless dongles for these units was WELL worth it for me a savings of over 120.00. My friends is used to hook up his LG blu ray HTIB with netflix, etc capabilities. I installed both of them, using different routers with each one. These bridges are great!Installation #1:As with other reviewers, the installation can become quite tricky if you aren't really familiar with networking terms. I am extremely proficient with computers, but lack networking knowledge. The DLINK's customer service is top notch! When I set up my bridge it was very simple. I have a dlink 655 router and a desktop computer hardwired(which means there's an ethernet cord constantly attached to the router) into the router. I plugged one end of the bridge into the router and accessed the web configuration page(just type dlinkap into your address bar of your browser). Simple. The web configuration has a wizard that guides you through the entire process...I pressed the arrow button on the bridge, and pressed the arrow button on my router and done! Unplug the unit take it where you need it, plug it in, and BAM...connected...WITHOUT WIRES! My router is close to 60-70 feet away, through doors and walls. My N wireless card in my laptop reads around 3-4 bars in the room I have my bridge in, when I connect my laptop to the bridge webpages load even faster. Absolutely no hick ups within netflix on my blu ray player. Downloading content is fast.Installation #2:After feeling like I could conquer the world with the easy setup I had encountered at home, I proudly walked into my friends house to connect his unit. I figured a good 10-15 minutes like it took me would be all the time I needed to spend. Boy was I wrong. He did not have a PC hardwired to the router, so I used his laptop (if this is you, make sure you have an extra ethernet cable if not, buy one). I connected the laptop to the router (which is a linksys G router) and connected the bridge to the router with the supplied ethernet cable, and then attempted to connect to the web config page using dlinkap in the address bar. No luck. It kept on telling me that there was a connection problem with my internet. I tried hardwiring the bridge to the laptop and accessing the webpage like that, no luck. Finally after using every curse word known to man, I called customer service. HUGE SIGH OF RELIEF! They guided me step by step on how to set up a static IP so I can access the webpage (which the manual lacks), also, the bridge stayed hardwired to the laptop NOT the router while I was setting up the bridge. After a 20 minute conversation with customer service, my friend was up and running. His bridge is 20 feet away from his router, in the same room. He just doesn't like wires...I don't blame him.We both are running quality internet wirelessly without the hassle of buying every propriety accessory for all of our home theater needs. In the future, the internet will not only be on the devices I mentioned, but will also be in your tv. Samsung is currently in development to release a TV that has an operating system identical to the operating system you use on your computer. I'm sure it will have an option to buy some expensive accessory so you can have wi fi internet, but if you buy this bridge there will be no need. With 4 ports for ethernet connectivity, you really can not go wrong. Keep in mind, if you need more ports just buy a 10.00 10/100 switch, or unplug one of your devices. Hope this review helps!!****UPDATE 1/26/2014****It's almost been 4 years since my initial review and mine and my friends unit still works great. He purchased an internet ready TV with WIFI abilities, but went back to plugging it into the bridge for a better connection. I still have my blu ray, xbox, ps3 and iMac attached to it and I have had no issues with connections at all. I've since upgraded my router from the DLINK to an Apple Airport Extreme and had a few issues with connecting to it at first, but since I recently graduated with a Networking degree, I was able to skip the customer service call this time :). The Airport uses a different IP address at first connect, so it's important to either change the Airport IP settings, or access the DLINK and change the IP settings to match the Airport settings to get it to work. If you would like further help getting this bridge to work for you, comment below and I'll try and help you out.Final review - since this product is still holding up strong after 4 years, I HIGHLY recommend it for any type of access/bridging needs.

I bought this to connect my xbox 360, blu-ray player, Tivo, and HD-TV, all of which reside in my living room, to my Trendnet wireless-N router which sits in my bed room. It took me almost SIX HOURS to successfully get this thing on my wireless network. Here's where I went wrong: I followed the directions. The directions state that all you need to do is hit the WPS button on the unit and the WPS enabled wireless router - they should automatically sync - sounds easy right? This absolutely was not the case.Instead, this is how I was finally able to get the box online... First, I connected the Dlink bridge/AP to my laptop via an ethernet cable. I then typed in the default IP (192.168.0.50) into the browser addressbox and hit enter. If nothing happens you probably need to change your IP to 192.168.0.XX (where xx is any two numbers) or else your computer will not be able to see the router.To change your IP address (on vista) you need to go to bring up the windows menu (bottom left of screen) and click "Network", right click on the "Network" icon in the list of folders and choose "Properties". This will bring up the network and sharing center. You then need to hit "Manage network connections" on the right, this will bring up a window showing you your wireless and ethernet ports. Right click on "Local area connection" which is the ethernet port, and choose "properties", this will bring up the ethernet settings. Select "Internet Protocol Version 4" and hit the Properties button. This is where you can set your IP address. Change your IP Address to something like 192.168.0.55 - the last two numbers can be anything (but not 50 because that is the default IP of the D-Link Bridge) and set the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 . Now go back to internet explorer (make sure the d-link bridge is plugged into your computer via the ethernet jack) and type in 192.168.0.50. This should now bring up the D link control panel.Once you have successfully pulled up the control panel you can log in, the default is user: admin pw: (leave this blank). Now follow the wizard to link the WPS enabled router and the bridge. For me this required that I go into my router settings (refer to your router manual to see how to do this) and hit a virtual button that allowed me to do the "Push button setup". Both the WPS button on the bridge and router will blink and then turn solid when they have successfully synced. Note, in order to do this I needed to open up a wireless connection on my laptop so that I could control the router and bridge at the same time.OK, once you get the two boxes to link up the battle is almost over. Now you need to UNPLUG your computer from the bridge and RESET THE ROUTER. I cannot stress this enough. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE INTERNET FROM THE BRIDGE USING THE COMPUTER THAT IS WIRELESS ENABLED OR HAD EVER BEEN PLUGGED INTO THE ROUTER because the router has already assigned that computer/Tivo/Xbox360 an IP address, and the bridge will try but fail to assign a second IP address, so you MUST MUST MUST unplug both the router and the bridge, this will reset all of the IP addresses on the Router. Now plug the bridge in and plug anything you want into the bridge to test the connection. If you are testing the bridge with a computer that is wireless enabled or connected to the router you need to disconnect that computer from the router and/or turn off the wireless BEFORE YOU RESET THE ROUTER or else you will be assigned an IP address by the router and you will be unable to connect to the internet through the bridge. That's basically it. If you reset the router then turned on the bridge then connected your computer to the bridge the bridge will assign your computer/xbox360 etc. a new IP address and you will be able to connect to the internet.Cons: The setup is a NIGHTMARE.Pros: Once setup is complete the D-link is awesome. I checked the ping and it basically has zero effect on latency, connecting strait to the cable modem gives me a ping of 12ms to [...] and connecting to the bridge (which has to go through the bridge THEN router THEN to the modem) only adds 2ms to the latency - which is Awesome. Period. Plus the connection is FAST and (so far) reliable.