Reviews for D-Link DES-3226L Ethernet Switch24 x 10/100Base-TX, 2 x 10/100/1000Base-T - MPN: DES3226L 
By anonymous - Jan 9, 2006
dlink sucksStrengths: Advertised features seem nice.. but do they work? Weakness: Bandwidth control *does not work* for ingress limiting Numerous firmware problems w/ this device. The bandwidth control function is messed up and Dlink simply would not acknowledge it. I bought this switch in early December '05, and pulled it out of the package on Dec 27th, only to find that the switch is unusable because I can't ratelimit ingress traffic. I tried to call Dlink's tech support at 10am EST, only to be told that they don't get in until 11am EST. When I called back at 11am EST, I was told that the "enterprise tech support" department is on vacation until January 3rd. This is idiotic. I immediately obtained an RMA on the 27th of Dec, but after calming down a bit, I decided to wait one whole week to speak to someone in tech support (although still in complete and utter disgust at the notion of a week-long vacation for the entire department - note, you won't *ever* hear about Cisco TAC doing this kind of stupidity). I called into tech support and spoke with someone for about 20 minutes, then the phone cord came out of the bottom of my phone. In spite of the fact that tech support had my phone number, the tech didn't call me back, and since I had no way to direct-dial the same tech, I had to call back again. This bothered me even more. Finally when I got ahold of someone, I was told that they don't have any record of firmware problems that would create the bandwidth control problem (most likely a lie), and they could send the issue out to the software group for testing, but it would take 2 weeks. This is extremely unacceptable. If you already have a machine setup with 'ping', it takes a whole 2 minutes to test this. Dlink will probably not be getting any more of my business because of this. 63% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top 
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DES-3226L
Strengths: None
Weakness: Has an operating system that does not work. Many bugs and the IP stack in the management is intermittant.
I have thoroughly tested this switch and believe me it is not anywhere near it's distant cousin the DES-3226. This is the "L" version and has a totally different operating system from the plain version and that is the problem. It does not support telnet but instead has a cumberson and buggy non-standard CLI that basically does not work properly. I reported the problems to D-Link and they admitted that they are taking it off the market rather than fix it. Stay away from this one.
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