I bought a DIR 615 from Fry's Electronics about a week ago because the old Belkin wireless router had been crashing several times a day.
The D-Link has not crashed once, and it also has a more detailed interface with more options and features. It does have, or at least it reveals, a problem. An older Mac Book (1,1) dropped from wireless constantly before I discovered a fix: The wireless connection won't drop when data is being transferred. So, it's necessary to maintain constant communication to keep the wireless connection up. All it takes is opening up the terminal and pinging the router.
So far, it's a good, solid router which brings out a problem which I think is really a flaw in the mac, not the router. Out of 7 connections* to the router, the mac's wireless is the only one that has trouble, and the mac seemed to cause the most trouble with the old Belkin.
It would've been nice to buy one with a USB port to attach my printer or an external hard drive to, but the 615 cost about $50, so I'm satisfied, and will be unless it starts crashing like the old one did.
*List of connected devices:
Macbook 1,1: Airport, Macbook 1,1: wired ethernet adapter,
Desktop PC's wired ethernet connection,
Sony Vaio laptop PC's wired and wireless connections,
iPhone 3G through wifi obviously,
iPhone 3GS
Any neighbors who have covertly bypassed my WPA encryption, spoofed my MAC address, hidden themselves from my list of connected devices, and yet not changed the admin password or messed with my stuff.
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10 months later and it still works. The macbook does lose signal sometimes, but I'm convinced that it's the mac's fault. I haven't had a router that the mac didn't have problems with.
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