Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41771 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: D-Link
• Model: DKT-810
• Released on: 2007-09-16
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 1.34 pounds

Manufacturer's Description

Wireless N ADSL2+ Modem Router Starter Kit
The D-Link DKT-810 kit is the ideal solution for first-time home users wishing to benefit from high-speed networking. It consists of one wireless N ADSL2+ modem router and one USB 2.0 mini adapter.

High performance wired and wireless networking
Based on the 802.11n draft standard, the DKT-810 kit offers a maximum wireless signal rate of 270Mbps, enabling bandwidth-hungry applications such as high-definition video streaming to run seamlessly. D-Link's Wireless N technology also means superior whole home coverage and a robust signal throughout whilst eliminating dead spots.
The router can be used on any ADSL, ADSL2 or ADSL2+ type of Internet connection, as it has a modem built-in.

Robust network protection
The router's built-in Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall makes it more difficult for hackers to penetrate your network. Robust parental controls are included, which allow blocking or, permit specific web sites completely or at certain times of the day. This security feature has been made exceptionally easy to configure on the router.
On the wireless side, MAC filtering and powerful encryption can be configured for secure data transfers and to refuse access to intruders trying tapping into your broadband connection.

Flexibility and ease of use
With USB, the adapter can be used on either a laptop or a desktop PC. The D-Link Click'n Connect (DCC 2) wizard allows anyone without prior technical knowledge to install both router and adapter and connect to the Internet within minutes, just by running the product CD.

Exceptional 11-year warranty terms
All the products in our Wireless N range come with an 11-year warranty, reflecting the potential life of these products. By offering 11 year warranty, we want to share our enthusiasm for this technical breakthrough with our customers.

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Customer Reviews

D-LINK DKT 810
I bought this router after a lot of hassle with a NETGEAR DG 834N . Took less than as hour to set up router, usb adaptor, and security.
It has run absolutely fautless and i would recommend to anyone, my pc is about 20 metres from the router and i get full signal at 270 Mbps constant.
My kids stream video all the time and it is a mile better than Netgear dg834n which the sound used to break up frequently.
The only thing i would say is when i bought it in late october 07 i paid £106.87 and i now see its £155.
£155 is a lot of money for a router and adaptor but it does work and if you think its worth that amount of cash thats up to you, i would probably look at Belkin n1 or simalar product.
All in all an excellent product although now expensive.

D-Link DKT 810
I bought this router on the strength of the 1 review that existed and I was not disappointed. It was easy to set up and runs really quickly. I bought 2 D-Link DWA-140 wireless mini adapters at the same time and they were even easier to set up and also work really well even though they are some distance away from the router. The router is not the cheapest by any manner of means but it works very well and I thought it was worth the premium on the price to be able to get it up and running without problems and for the improved speed it gives.

Works fine in our large bungalow through a few plasterboard egg-box walls
We had a D-Link 604T wireless 'g' router, but it seemed to have failed so I bought this draft-n DSL-2740B model as a replacement. It's easier to set up than the DSL-604T, has an ADSL/ASDL2+ modem included, plus four 10/100Base-TX switch ports and a wireless access point, and the D-Link setup wizard worked well. The lack of 1000Mbps network ports wasn't an issue for me as I will probably only ever connect one wired PC this way (although a full draft-n wireless network can run faster at a nominal 300Mbps, creating a wired bottle-neck). Typically it still took over a day to get all four home PCs running on the network (three wireless/one wired). This was more the PCs fault and the fact I was new to WPA-2 wireless security, being a WEP man previously. My PCs Windows XP wireless utilities defaulted to Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), that's for WPA, and not Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) that's needed for WPA-2 - so nothing worked until AES was tick-boxed. I could only get reliable wireless network connections by sticking to (draft) '802.11n only' mode, even with `g' PC adapters, and manually setting the broadcast channel number [rather than letting the router 'auto-scan' for the 'best' channel]. I set my HP K550 dtn office printer up via the wired network ports on the router so that I can print independently of any PC being switched on - and this works fine, although I had to re-install the HP printer software on each PC to find the printer on the wireless/wired network - it was shared local USB on a PC previously. I find that if the router is switched off disconnecting the printer, and a PC fires up, the printer settings on the PC are lost and the printer goes offline and sulks, so I have to leave the router on 24h a day. Shame as the router has a rear off/off switch and I was intending to power it down overnight - but it causes too many printer problems if a PC or two powers up before the router.

With regard to network wireless range I actually get lower wireless signal power settings reported by Windows on all network PCs compared to the old single antenna DSL-604T. I assume that's it's a more reliable connection though (I'm an optimist). This router works far better with it's rear towards the centre of the room/house and the wireless network PCs, no doubt as that's where the antennae are (and all the unsightly cables) - shame the three antennae aren't on the front really. Reversed, with the triple antennae against the study wall my sons wireless `g' PC drops immediately from 54 Mbps down to a painfully slow 22 Mbps or less. I had previously upgraded all my PCs PCI cards to include a 2.1 metre Hawking Antenna SMA extension cable and large 5db DWL 50AT SMA antennas. The hi-gain antenna sits well above each PC, a few feet from the ceiling in most cases. I have replaced the three antennas on the 2740B with these large 50AT antennas as well - these cost a tenner each but can be swapped onto any new router when upgrading (provided they have standard SMA threaded connectors). I seem to have to use RS electrical contact cleaner and tighten the antenna SMA fittings every few months to maintain full strength signals. All the wireless `g' antennas were located at the optimum sites with the aid of a Kensington WiFi Finder Plus wireless signal strength detector. My study PC is wired to the router - faster, more reliable and secure. Our Centrino laptop connects easily at 54mbps just about anywhere. On our PCs we really need these beefy 50AT antenna/extension cable upgrades to get wireless `g' working reliably at speed, as the supplied tiddly antenna hanging out of the rear of the PC card or a small USB wireless adapter never seems to stay connected for long. I have this D-Link router on top of a bookcase in the study, away from everything and near the centre of the house - height, and location, location, location, being crucial. I don't stream video and am a patient sort for network file transfer, so the 54Mbps was fine for me - and it's well faster than our 8Mbps internet connection, even at the actual 22Mbps wireless connection speeds we probably get in real life. That said it seems daft not to increase speeds to 300 Mbps draft-n with new D-Link draft-n adapter cards as the router can handle it. This router also works perfectly with our new Wii console located two rooms away, although the Wii has a limited character set for the wireless security passwords.

So I didn't needed to install any compatible D-Link 802.11n (draft) wireless adaptors in the home network PCs, as they all connect happily in normal, admittedly far slower, wireless G mode [using a Belkin and three integrated motherboard wireless ASUS/Centrino wireless G chips]. So, so far this router and ADSL modem has been a good buy for me, and I really like the 11 year guarantee - but I have invested an extra £50 or so in beefed up antennas and their extension cables in order to get a useable wireless network. However I am yet to be convinced this [draft] 802.11n router is providing a more reliable wireless network than my old standard 'g' D-Link 604T single antenna router for 54 Mbps connection (which was adaquate anyway most of the time).

We have just bought the matching D-Link DKT-810 draft-n USB2 wireless adapter for the PC with the worst connection [supplied with this value pack], and this appears to have improved the network connection reliability and speed (a quoted 270 Mbps with a 54% signal rather than 32 to 54 Mbps using the old Belkin wireless 'g' PCI card) - despite the lack of any decent high gain antenna. However replacing this USB2 network adapter with the D-Link PCI 3-antenna DWA-547 PCI draft-n card has improved the signal and network speed even more [70%+ signal, constant 300 Mbps] - with the high gain antenna+extention lead in the middle position and the two smaller antenna top/bottom at a 45o angle. With my sons PC this DKT-810 USB2 adapter is constantly unreliable (as was his old USB2 wireless g adapter). So we are getting a DWA-547 draft-n PCI card for him as well. Thus buying a matching set of D-Link draft-n PCI/USB2 network adapters may be worthwhile, if expensive, for faster and reliable connections, and if possible I'd avoid the USB2 DKT-810 and go for the D-link PCI version for difficult PC locations (at distance, the USB2 adapter signal is always reported 'low' to the PCI cards 'very good' by Windows - although it takes a lot of antenna fiddling to get things working with either).

Back to the ADSL router: This D-Link Range-Booster DSL-2740B Router/Modem was quite highly rated by PCPro, and it does have decent website blocking parental control options [although also look at the Linksys WAG325N that might be better over distance, PCPro didn't think much of the matching DKT-810 USB2 adapter either though]. If you want either one, check around for the best deal. It's probably worth buying this D-link 2740B router in a value package with the matching DKT-810 draft-n USB wireless adapter as you can get going so easily on any PC [but you might be better of with a DWA-547 internal PCI card in some locations].