This router allows you to connect two modems to your network at the
same time, like DSL and cable.
Increases your bandwidth for downloads and uploads,
especially on torrents.
Adds redundancy to your network to help ensure that
you don't ever get kicked into offline mode again. Maybe you need to
make sure you are always online or at least have an internet connection
that works.
Well, this modem can help achieve those goals. However, it
may take some tricks to get your internet connection working the way
you want.
Problems when you set up the router for
the first time...
Can not access secure
websites.
Examples of sites I could not access:
PayPal
eBay
Some Google websites, like their Adsense and Adwords
sites
my bank websites
Basically, any site that had "HTTPS://" in the URL would
appear to be offline (the connection would time out) if I had both my
DSL and cable modems on and attached to the DI-LB604 router. The only
way I knew around this issue up until recently was to turn off one of
the modems. It didn't matter which modem I chose to turn off, but they
could not both work at the same time on secure websites.
How
to set up the router to access secure websites
Log into your router. That usually means going to:
http://192.168.0.1/
Go to "Set Protocol & Port Bindings". The
screenshots below show the steps.
Enable a port range of 443 ~ 443 to use just one of your WAN's. I chose
to use WAN1, which is now my DSL modem. So, whenever I access secure
websites, the DI-LB604 router will channel all that internet activity
through my DSL modem and ignore the cable modem connection.
Can not send SMTP email
I could not send SMTP email through my DSL modem.
Could not send email through Vista's Mail or Windows Mail program
I now understand that my DSL provider (AT&T Yahoo!) does not allow us to send SMTP email unless you use AT&T's server. AT&T blocks port 25.
AT&T requires that we use AT&T's SMTP servers to
send email and while our emails go throught their servers, our emails
are filtered. One of their SMTP server's has this address:
smtp.att.yahoo.com
What if I want to send email through my own SMTP servers? Like:
smtp.elperfecto.com
Well,
AT&T won't allow that. However, my cable modem does allow
this. My cable provider is Cablelynx and they
allow SMTP connections on port 25 with the server of my choice.
I'm lucky that at least one of my ISP's allows private SMTP
connections.
If you want to use SMTP to send email and your ISP does not let you, you could consider changing your ISP.
Log into your router. That usually means going to:
http://192.168.0.1/
Enable SMTP Binding. Screenshot below shows the steps.
As you can see above, I chose to use WAN1 only for my SMTP
Binding
Port. WAN1 was my cable connection at the time I wrote this,
which allows SMTP
traffic.
End of
article.
COMMENTS
Franco
Gil - Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 2:10 PM
how to setup DI-LB 604 to use two wan im trying to configure but i cant
access anything please help please
Earl -
Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 10:02 PM
Without having any details of your setup, it's hard to know what the
issue is with your router. You can't access anything?
Does
that mean you can't access the internet with either WAN? Or,
you
can't access the router settings? I'm sorry you're having
trouble. The more information you provide, the more likely
you
will receive help.
amin
momin - Sunday, April 27, 2008
at 04:44 AM
DILB604 not proper working on banking or other secure site
amin
momin - Sunday, April 27, 2008
at 05:03 AM
after as per your setting secure site is working proper but Internet is
very slow because of load balancing is not working after this setting.
Earl
- Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 9:58 PM
I'm not sure why your internet would be very slow with these
settings. Maybe you have a different hardware version?
I
just flipped my router upside-down and see a label stating: hardware version
A1.
With these settings, you force one connection to handle all secure
websites, those sites with "https" in the URL. So, you will
not be load balancing secure sites any more. However, other
traffic still gets load balanced. Normal sites (with "http"
in the URL) and other internet activity, including torrents, still work
in load balancing mode, at least here on my LAN it does. The
setup still load balances normal, unsecured traffic.
Even without load balancing, secure sites are not slow for me.
They are slower than normal sites, but I think that's because
the data is encrypted. Or, perhaps their servers are slower
because of
many users connected at the same time. I can imagine that
many secure sites have many people logged in at any one moment.
But even so, I wouldn't classify the secure sites to be "slow" on my
cable connection with no load balancing. It's just normal.
Francisco - Wednesday,
April 30, 2008 at 1:05 PM
Hi Earl, thanks for the help! But I´m curious: what is your firmware´s
version?
Earl
- Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 9:25 PM
According to my router's admin page:
Firmware Version: v.1.01 .03 Built Date:
Nov 14 2006
amin
momin - Thursday, May 1, 2008
at 08:32 AM
after upgrading my firmware its working fine, now i have Firmware
Version: v.1.01 .03 Built Date: Nov 14 2006
John - Tuesday,
June 24, 2008 at 09:16 AM
Hi Mate :
I am having the same router as you in my cyber cafe. Do you
know how to separate WAN1 and WAN2 to do different task?for example,
setting WAN1 for online gaming while WAN2 for HTTP web
browsing(youtube,VOIP etc).
Thanks for helping!
Regards,
John
Earl
- Friday, June 27, 2008 at 9:25 PM
Since I have not had your issue, I don't know the exact solution.
However, this might help a little...
The settings above will force WAN2 to be the only WAN to use HTTP.
For your gaming, you will probably need to know what port range is used
for the games. Then you can add an item to your Virtual
Server List (shown above) and force it to use WAN 1.
Good luck.
gabriel - Friday,
July 24, 2009 at 11:05 AM
This router has a new 2009 firmware, https works fine , and has more
options, you don't need to do any of the above steps depicted on this
page, it is found at dlink's russia site FTP, I recommend every owner
to upgrade to this latest version before dlink decided to discontinue
support for this great product
Earl
- Friday, July 24, 2009 at 11:20 AM
That sure is interesting, gabriel. I would like a new
firmware but I'm wary of downloading from a Russian site. Out
of curiosity, I looked for the FTP site you mentioned and found this
folder:
You're saying you installed the firmware from there and it worked?
I wonder if it's in English. What country are you
located in? Why doesn't the USA site offer this firmware and
how in the world did you find this? Thanks for sharing your
tip.
gabriel - Friday,
July 24, 2009 at 8:09 PM
hi again , I am venezuelan (located in venezuela :-P), the firmware is
in english, and the router is working very well, I love it very much,
and I have had this experience with dlink many times before, they make
a product and they give support for it in other places but not at USA
site or Australia or Latin America, so I have tried browsing their
sites and found it there, it works very well, and I dont have the https
problem, it's balancing the load very well and I can send some
screenshots to you but I dont know how, copy pasting from the router
page it shows this
Firmware Version: v.1.02 Built Date: Mar 5 2009
This is probably the latest firmware we will ever have for this product.
you're welcome!
Earl
- Friday, July 31, 2009 at 9:20 PM
A Yahoo
page has a post with someone confirming that the Russia link
worked for them:
"D-link web support was crappy and latest firmware available on USA web site was
no improvement. Found out that D-link had developed new version 1.02 firmware
but would not post this new firmware on their USA web site for download. After
many hours of searching for the mysterious 1.02 firmware, I finally found it
available via FTP server based in Russia. Why D-link had hidden this firmware
makes no sense to me since this firmware fixed all the problems I was having
with the buggy versions 1.00 and 1.01 firmwares. This router with the 1.02
firmware kicks ass."
Gabriel emailed me some screenshots of his firmware downloaded from
Russia. Here is one of them...
It shows that the Russia firmware is 1.02 with a build date of
Mar-5-2009. Thanks, Gabriel, for sharing that.
I have not yet upgraded my firmware as I am not currently having any
problems with my router. I am currently using "v.1.01 .03
Built Date: Nov 14 2006". Youtube is working fine
with it, too. If I run into problems with my router, I will
try upgrading
the firmware.
tony - Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 10:33 AM
I upgraded mine last night and the router seems to work initially until I set a
new password, then it's gone. I had to reset it and reload back the old version
from 2006. Oh in my case, I did a backup of my existing configuration and did a
reload on the 1.02 firmware, that may have been the problem.
Earl
- Saturday, August 8, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Hmm, that doesn't sound good. I wonder what would have
happened if after you upgraded your firmware if you did not reload your
backed up settings and instead manually typed them in.
Dennis - Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 22:09
hi, how do you update the firmware on this router? i had a problem
wherein my ISPs did not connect to the router. I tried the ISP
connections directly to the PC and another router that i own (linksys)
and the ISP connection are fine. When i connect them to the Dlink
router and check the status page, it indicates that the WAN are
disconnected.
Kim - Monday, December 7, 2009 at 14:08
Examples are fine here.But i have 2 livebox.with different speed.2bm and
256kbps.I dont know how to configure them.I configure load share WAN 1 85% and
WAN 2 15& but when i download,the router seems to use the 15%! and some
times it use both and the connection drained again.
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How
to connect a cable modem to the DI-LB604?
edited by Earl on
Jun-18-2008
Recently my old cable modem stopped connecting to the internet.
The modem lasted about 8 years so I am sad to see it go.
I called my cable company and they sent a technician to my
home to check out my internet trouble. The technician said my
signal strength was fine. He went out to his truck and
brought back a new, rental modem and connected it to my cable.
His modem worked and connected to the internet. So,
we concluded that my old modem must have died.
I had this new cable modem connected to my DI-LB604 D-Link
router for several days with no problems. I didn't have to
make any adjustments to the router to get the router to acknowledge the
new modem. It just worked. But then, a few days
ago, it stopped working. The dual-WAN router sees my DSL
modem, but it does not see the cable modem. What happened?
The cable modem is a Motorola SB5101.
Here is the modem connected to the router.
The router shows an active LED for the DSL router on WAN 2, but the
cable connection on WAN 1 is dead... the LED's for WAN 1 are off.
So, how am I going to fix this? How can I get the router to
see that WAN 1 is connected to my cable modem?
Step 1: trouble-shoot the cable connection.
Is
the cable modem working?
I unplugged the cable modem from the router and connected it directly
to a computer's ethernet port. The computer was able to
connect to the internet through the cable modem. That shows
that the cable modem is working fine and the cable connection is online.
So, why doesn't the router see the cable modem when the cable modem is
plugged into the WAN 1 port? It worked for several days but
then just stopped, maybe after the router was rebooted or powered off
and on.
Step 2: What happens if I plug the cable modem into
WAN
2?
For
many months, my cable modem was connected to WAN 1. But now
WAN 1
is dead. So, I plugged the cable modem into WAN 2.
The
LED's turned on! That means that the router sees the cable
modem
on WAN 2 but it didn't see it on WAN 1. Remember, I made no
changes to the router when this problem occurred. When I
plugged
my DSL modem to WAN 1, all LED's lit up. The DSL modem could
transfer data with the internet. But, the cable modem still
did
not tranfer data with the internet, so this issue is not yet fixed.
Step 3: Turn off cable modem and router for five
minutes. Let them fully reboot.
Result: no change.
Step 4: Investigate MAC ID settings
I
changed the MAC ID for my cable connection and it came online!
This seems pretty dumb that changing the MAC ID would fix
this.
Step 5: Enable both WAN connections
I
guess if WAN 2 is set as a backup, then when WAN 1 comes online, the
router disconnects from the "backup" WAN 2. That makes sense.
When I changed the MAC address of the cable modem, the
router rebooted itself. When the router rebooted, it
connected to
the cable modem faster than it connected to the DSL modem.
So,
for a short time the DSL modem was disconnected, so the backup line,
WAN 2... the cable modem, came online. Once WAN 1...the DSL
modem... connected, the router disconnected from the backup WAN 2.
Conclusion
If
you want your router to actively use both WAN 1 and WAN 2, then make
sure you enable them... don't make either of them a "backup".
But,
why was the router working fine with two internet connections for
several days and then suddenly
stopped working? I didn't make any change to the router
settings
to
cause it to go offline originally. It's possible the router
got
rebooted during a power failure, but I don't know for sure.
My
guess is that it has to do with getting a new cable modem several days
before the router failure. Maybe putting a new cable modem
into
the router requires a MAC Address change. If the router did
get
rebooted, then maybe the router realized that the cable modem
changed and it didn't like using the same MAC Address for the new
modem.
It's
strange, but the MAC Address on the bottom of the modem does not match
the value I entered into the router settings. When I tried to
use
the MAC Address on the sticker on the bottom of the modem, the router
didn't like that, either. If changing one of the modems, it
may
be necessary to change the MAC Address to a new value, one that is
similar to the router's MAC address, with just the last digit being
different.
The router is using both of the internet
connections, both DSL and cable. The router has been
running well for several months with these settings.
End of
article.
COMMENTS
Davy
/ Nerus - Thursday, January 1,
2009 at 2:51
Hi, my name is Davy, I'm from Brazil, I have a cyber cafe here, and I
have two adsl internet links 2MB and 4MB, I'm using the DI-LB604 it are
with the last firmware, and I'm facing problems with youtube, sometimes
de video is played sometimes I receive the message saing that video are
unavailable, could you help me, thanks in advance.
Earl -
Saturday, January 3 at 11:20 AM
I used to have the same problem. It was annoying.
When
trying to play a Youtube video, it had a 50/50 chance of playing.
Half the time, I would see a black video box with the error: We're
sorry, this video is no longer available.
I'm
guessing that YouTube wants us to connect with a single IP address.
Why? To better track our video watching history?
I
don't know.
My
solution to the problem was either:
1. Keep refreshing the web page until it did load up.
The video would load up, eventually, if I kept pressing
refresh enough times, but this was annoying.
2.
Turn one of my modems off. It didn't matter which
modem I
chose to turn off. This forced YouTube to work on just one IP
address and then the problem went away. When I was done with
YouTube, I would turn the second modem back on.
JJ -
Sunday, June 14, 2009 9:34 PM
HI IM facing similar problem but this time on friensder.com. This does
mean that friensdter too wants to connect us with a single IP?
How can I configure friendster.com to connect either one of the two WAN
ports dedicatedly?
Thanks
August - Wednesday,
June 24, 2009
Hi,
I'm facing an DI-LB604 issue.
I've 2 internet conection:
1º) ADSL 2Mbits no autentication needed
2º) ADSL 1Mbits with PPOE autentication
Both are configurated as enable with load balance 50%/50%.
When both conection are in a good Health everything goes OK and those
20 PC's on the LAN has a very good internet navegation.
But when one of ADSL has a problem on the provider or the ADSL trafic
or ...., the DI-LB604 stay lost and I cant have internet over the 20
PCs on the LAN.
If I turned OFF tha ADSL modem that is making the problem and take out
the cable RJ45 from the LB604 and / or reset the LB604 the conection
for navegation came back.
So, the LB604 in not detecting and changing from WAN1 to WAN2 or WAN2
to WAN1 or making the correct check in the Health of both ADSL
conection.
Now I'm working only with the ADSL 2mbits plugeded RJ45 in WAN1 all the
time..., when the WAN1 / ADSL 2Mibts fail I unplug RJ45 from WAN1 and
plug the other ADSL 1Mbits RJ45 into the WAN2...
So, I'm balancing my onw ADSL's conections...
Could some one help me to configure DI-LB604 as the best for 2 ADSLs ?
Regards,
August
gil - Wednesday,
June 24, 2009
hi,
im facing a problem now on my dlink di-lb604 Firmware
Version:v.1.02b0g_TW Built Date: Mar 4 2008. it works fine before but
for now ,the clients could no longer browse the internet but we got
good reply when we ping the website. since before i have setup Multi
DMZ to particular IP Address. and only the owner of that IP Address can
access the internet.i had tried to remove sa DMZ entry of the IP
ADdress ,i got same issues with others. pls help..tnx
How to get wireless
internet with a dual-WAN router
Edited by Earl Feb-28-2010
I've been using this dual-WAN router for a couple years and have been
waiting for a solution to let me use wifi AND the dual-WAN at the same
time. Well, I finally found a fix!
TRENDnet TEW-637AP
Wireless
802.11N Upgrader
I plugged this TRENDnet wireless upgrader into one of the LAN ports of
my D-Link DI-LB604 Dual-WAN router and it's working like a champ!
The
installation was easy... one of the easiest computer upgrades I've ever
made. I've been using it for 9 month now as of this update.
Very happy with this device. It has enabled us to get
online, wirelessly, with a:
Dell
notebook
Nokia N810 internet tablet
Wii
Nintendo DSi
Our devices connected wirelessly within
minutes of opening the TRENDnet
TEW-637AP wireless upgrader box.
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