Comments on: D-Link DSM-320RD - Review

By: Noah

Noah — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:28:45 +0000

I just have to say I got my DSM-320RD in the mail yesterday, and from the time opening the box to the time I was streaming house was about 12 minutes, INCLUDING doing the Firmware update! I am using the LAN to my Router, then WiFi to my PC.. Works VERY well…. Not as nice as a Mac Mini with Front Row, but not too bad…

I will admit the software interface on the box itself BLOWS, and the remote is kinda cheap… But its not bad overall… I tried TVersity last night, but i dunno… it just didnt seem right…. But it was probably just me… gonna try it again tonight when I get home…

Anybody know of an aftermarket Interface that isnt as cheesy as the OEM DLink Software?

By: torstea

torstea — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:12:33 +0000

Hi. Like many others I saw this product as a way to link my PC and my TV/stereo. I have had much trouble with the wireless settings, but today I connected with cable and thoght that would solve every problem. Well, it did not! We have all our photos and music on a d.link dns-232 network disk with built in mediaplayer. I hoped that the cable would give faster access to our photos, but with resolution 3072*2304 (1mb) it works sooooo slow. Anyone else with this problem? Is it the 320RD that has to little memory/prosessor? T.Norway

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:15:09 +0000

My original review was posted almost 3 years ago, I wonder if the 320RD is actually much better now that it’s had 3 years to get bugs and kinks ironed out of it.

By: Piero

Piero — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:40:59 +0000

Hi all
I got my first DSM-320RD six months ago. Now, I’ve three boxes at home.
Yes, the remote is bad. Also, the FF/REW issue is very annoying. But… using them for photos (jpeg 640×480), music (MP3) and videos (DivX/Xvid@~800Kbps, MP3@128Kb) they really do the job. Again: my mum (living downstairs) uses one of them on wlan (to be honest, she’s using an external 6dBi antenna…), and it works correctly, even when enjoying different movies on each player. My upnp-av server is uShare, running on a slug (Linksys NSLU/2, which also support bittorrent downloading… :D) and my wifi router is a D-Link DSL604T. The wlan encryption is WEP.

IMHO, the DSM-320RD is not so bad…. if you take care of what you’re asking for

By: conrad

conrad — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:49:42 +0000

Thanks for the review. Very helpful. I was considering the DSM-320RD but will steer clear until something better comes along.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:43:49 +0000

in response to rich:

if you put the volume above half on the player itself it disorts but it you keep it below half then it works fine. so I don’t touch the volume on the player anymore and it sounds great now. its similar to turning up the volume on your MP3 player then playing it though the aux port on your car stereo. it sounds horrible turn it down a bit and it sounds good agian. hope this helps
Heres the rebate but you have 30days from purchase to use it.

http://ak.buy.com/buy_assets/retail/pdfs/08Q1/0301-0331dw-rg_50dlink.pdf

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:13:03 +0000

I have the 320rd and I had problems when converting dvd’s to Mpeg but if I use AVI it works without issue. I use magic dvd ripper and it makes them into a file and my 320rd plays them fine over wirelessG with WPA(lastest firmware added WPA). I play music fine. I tried the software it came with and it worked but I wanted to stream stuff so I tried wmconnect and it sucked. so I looked online and everyone used Tversity so I tried that and it worked great. the stupid windows firewall did not let it though so I had to fix that but other then that all is good. yeah it has so querks but for 80bucks its awesome. remote sucks and the dvd seems to freeze it if you turn it on and press dvd but after holding the powerbutton it works great. also Does anyone leave it on all the time? it works better if I do that but I am worried it will wear out. any ideas there?

well later

Mark

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:56:33 +0000

Mine seems to have a bad audio section. It distorts everything so I need to look into it.

Also does anyone have a copy of the january rebate form? It seems to have disappeared from buy.com….

The media server also couldn’t stream video on wireless b until I updated it to the latest version and now it works much better. It might or might not work for wirelss g but if it is that bad on b it should be updated.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:56:03 +0000

I’ve had my DSM-320 for a year now. I use it wired with TVersity. I do get some stuttered playback at times but overall I am very happy with it. A good media PC would probably work better but there is a lot more that can go wrong with a PC than one of these. Would love some updated firmware to deal with a few minor issues but it does what I need it to and is reliable.

By: TerryB

TerryB — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:51:04 +0000

I have a 320 and a 320RD hooked up wireless to a dedicated TVersity Media server (old pc). The both streamers work very well for me. One on the main floor and the other in the basement for the kids. Yes the remote is wonky, the Reverse just does not work, the security (WEP Only) is very weak. But for the $$$ I cannot complain. I can stream everything I have thrown at it so far. One in a while a video file will cause the audio to disappear and I have to turn the unit off and on to clear it.