D-Link Firmware Upgrade – Unbelievable
Yesterday I found out that there was a new firmware upgrade for my D-Link Router (DIR-655), something until now I had been happy with. When I got home from work I decided to upgrade, before it started the router warned me to backup the settings as the update may revert to default settings. That is fair enough, so I go ahead and backup the settings right away and then update.
Now I have plenty of experience with Netgear and Linksys routers and have never had a router update completely revert settings to factory defaults (including password). Sometimes there are sections that revert but generally things like passwords and IP reservations remain unchanged. This was unfortunately not the case, in fact the password was removed!
Fortunately I backed up the settings right? I mean D-Link told me that doing so would allow me to restore my settings if the upgrade wiped them out. Well sure enough it was unable to restore settings backed up by previous firmware. I find it very hard to believe that D-Link resets all settings and gives you no way of backing them up and restoring them. The real fun came up while I was trying to work from home this morning. Since I had setup a bunch of IP reservations I started having some serious trouble with conflicts and basically had to rebuild the network quickly this morning.
Long story short it was the worst firmware upgrade I have ever experienced with a router and it seriously turned me off to future D-Link products.