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Excellent, works well. Gets a little hot but nothing to worry about.
RE: MAC Address filtering. Not checked mine, but MAC filtering is minimal security at best. MAC Spoofing is very easy to do, and so is capturing packets to find the address. Just use WPA2, MAC filtering is not worth the hastle TBH
Love it. I have no experience with networks, and this is my first venture into broadband, but had absolutely no problems installing this modem. As soon as you open the box, it says "Insert CD first!", so I did. The on-screen instruction are very clear and easy to follow, and it auto-configured my modem without a problem. Wireless transmission strength is ok, travelling through two rooms and upstairs in my semi easily enough, but then again I do have a Edimax free-aerial WiFi card in my desktop, not one of these silly little USB stick things. The result is a "poor" signal strength, but the transmission rate on "poor" is still three times my broadband connection speed, so there's no slow-down of internet at all :-) Box includes 2 micro-filters, an ethernet patch cable, and two DSL cables. Unit looks neat, although it would be nice to have a vertical mount stand to reduce its footprint a bit. Only had it one day, but I'd already recommend it :-)
Had this modem/router foisted on me after my DSL-G624T died on me after 2 weeks. It took about 7 weeks from first reporting the issue with D-Link to get a replacement. Their email based support is woefully slow and formats the emails badly.
Generally happy with it apart from trying to set up MAC address filtering which is barely mentioned in the manual and not at all in the web based config utility.
I would probably not buy another D-Link product based on this experience.
I have just had it confirmed from D-Link technical support that with the current firmware at least (3.06), this product does not support MAC address filtering, despite what all the specs say. I would have thought that this is one of the most basic requirements for the security of a wireless network so hopefully it will be addressed with a firmware upgrade sooner rather than later.
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