We featured the D-Link DIR-685 back at CES in January, a 802.11n router with integrated digital photo frame and a whole lot more. A rather strange combination admittedly (does anyone have their router out on show?), but one that certainly differentiates the 685 from its competitors.
The router is now shipping
- 3.2” Colour LCD
- 802.11n Wireless
- Network Attached Storage
- USB Device Sharing
- Internet Content Player
- Digital Photo Frame powered by FrameChannel
- FTP Server
- Power saving technology
- Gigabit networking
To use the NAS features of the router, slip in a 2.5” SATA hard drive, and you’ll benefit from a Bittorrent downloader, FTP server and other goodies.
It’s a hotch-potch of features, no doubt, but ticks a lot of convergence boxes – question is, will it be a jack of all trades and master of none? If you’re up for checking it out, let us know how you get on!
7. October 2009 at 5:46 pm
Don't forget you have to turn off dyanamic DNS to keep it's internet connection. Otherwise, you're power cycling the router very 3 days
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