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Once you’ve done that, you just need to plug your PC or laptop into D-Link’s router over Ethernet and run the setup CD. It doesn’t have a built-in modem, so you’ll need to plug your ADSL or cable router into the DIR-645’s ‘Internet’ port with an Ethernet cable.
The DIR-645 is easy to set up and configure. We tried the router again with a Dynamode WL-700N-MRT adaptor, which is £6 from With this adaptor we saw 56.1Mbit/s at 1m range, 54.8Mbit/s at 10m and 15Mbit/s at 25m ranges, which is a massive improvement if still not quite up with the Buffalo router's huge 25.8Mbit/s at 25m range. This is in stark contrast to the WZR-HP-G450H, which could transfer files even faster with its own dongle. However, when we tested the router with D-Link’s own DWA-160 USB adaptor (£33 inc VAT from our transfer speeds slowed right down – we only saw 13.1Mbit/s at 10m range and a crawling 2Mbit/s at 25m. Turning on the channel-bonding turbo mode just slowed things down, so we left the router in 20MHz mode. At 10m we saw 46.6Mbit/s compared to 44.3Mbit/s for the Buffalo and in our 25m test, where some routers can’t even hold a connection, the DIR-645 could transfer files at 18.5Mbit/s, compared to 18.4Mbit/s for Buffalo’s WZR-HP-G450H. At 1m range it transferred files at 50.4Mbit/s, compared to 48.8Mbit/s for the Buffalo router.
When tested with a Centrino 2 laptop, the DIR-645 emerged as the fastest router we’ve ever seen, just outstripping Buffalo’s GigaStation WZR-HP-G450H.