Yep, paid over £90 for mine at the time!!!

Half price in the PCWorld Sale (now on but ends 27 Dec !)

www.pcworld.co.uk

Just checked and they were "temporarily out of stock" on the website - maybe
stores have them at this price too?

Andy

"Andy Pandy" <andrew@NOSPAMPLEASEthefunhouse.plus.com> wrote in message
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"Yep, paid over £90 for mine at the time!!!"

"Half price in the PCWorld Sale (now on but ends 27 Dec !)"

PC Worlds idea of half price is that ->

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=52754

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 20:11:12 -0000, "Ed Start" <lost@inspace.com>
wrote:

wrong ! the thing you posted doesn't have a G on the end of its model
number, its the wired-only version whereas the thread is about the
802.11g version

Phil
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Come on down !

Ebuyer have the DG834G for £68.54, so for once PC World is cheaper.

Russell

Russell wrote:
PC World is often cheaper as it clears the boxes for the next lot of
(supposedly) killer gadgets...

"kraftee" <kraftee@spamoff& die.com> wrote in message
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I presume the DG834GT in this case... which seems to be the same as the
DG834G but with 108Mbps wireless networking supported rather than just 54G

Regards
Sunil

<snip>
I managed to get the DG834G from ebuyer for £60 a while ago, and It's
utterly awful. Has a mind of it's own.

The link I posted was the non-wireless version (oopppss).

In any respect Ebuyers price is better than PC Worlds normal price, but
granted, not half price. That said, If I knew then what I know now, I'd not
give a tenner for one.

In ebuyers favour are the reviews from real users (take a look at the
wireless PCI card from netgear - the great return of the blue screen of
death to XP) this information is worth a packet when buying - or would you
prefer to trust the moron in PC World "Yes it's great, sold bucket loads of
these...." If only I had read them before buying.....

"Ed Start" <lost@inspace.com> wrote in message
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Yep, cockup with your reasoning. I was posting about the DG834G - anyway, no
harm done ...

I have a DG834G and I have had problems, granted, but then I had a Linksys
WAG54G and I had different types of problems with that wireless router.
Personally I reckon its the wireless "bits" - I still feel they are pretty
flaky and the technology has yet to mature.

One thing I've found with my DG834G though is be VERY careful when
performing the firmware updates - this is when I believe I lot of the
problems that people experience start to happen. I ended up doing the latest
(1.05.00) firmware update using the "recovery" utility from Netgear and I
have to say, its been perfect ever since. Definitely one to keep in mind.

Andy

"Andy Pandy" <andrew@NOSPAMPLEASEthefunhouse.plus.com> wrote in message
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There are stability issues with 1.05 (for example router reboots can still
be apparent in P2P use when connecting to a large number of peers).

There are reports that Netgear tends to ditch firmware upgrade support for
"old" models pretty quickly after or even before the new model is released.
If true then this is one serious consideration. The after sales
support/fault repair isn't good either.

The KCorp LifeStyle Wireless Gateway Router Gold Series as reviewed on the
PCPro website (A List) sounds very good - only £79 too.

Gareth.

Andy Pandy:
NO it's not the technology, its Netgear !
Back in spring 03 I bought Netgear router and it just didn't work and after
wasting a week I managed to return it.

I then bought Draytek Vigor 2600We (wireless), installed it in May 2003 in
the attic and I haven't even seen it until this November
when I had to upgrade the firmware (5 mins) in order to make VoIP work. I
get excellent signal in another building 70m away.
Grant you Draytek is lot more then £45, but how much is a weeks worth of
wasted time ?
Regards,
Martin

"Martin²" <never@give.one> wrote in news:41ce0dc2$0$32254
$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net:

18 months or more ago you had *one* bad customer experience with a
Netgear product and you still feel the need to continue
blackguarding them, despite (I assume) you never having been near a
NetGear product since.

Over the past two and a half years (i.e. including pre-dating your
problem) I've installed more than twenty Netgear products including
at least 5 broadband routers. All have worked first time and I've
never had a failure reported since.

In case you think I'm a particular fan of Netgear, I have also
installed similar numbers of Linksys, D-Link, Belkin and 'own-
branded' networking products with the same success rate.

I am not challenging your perception of the particular problem you
experienced, or your competence or whatever. But if your experience
was typical of many of their customers Netgear would be in serious
business decline by now, whereas the opposite is the case in
reality.

Isn't it time you put your emotions about your bad experience
behind you and moved on?

On 26 Dec 2004 02:33:34 GMT, Euan Kerr <aaargh@invalid.jp> strung
together this:

<snip sane reasoning>

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SJW
Please reply to group or use 'usenet' in email subject

"Isn't it time you put your emotions about your bad experience behind you
and moved on?"

So if both the items i went for, that is the router and the wireless card,
are rubbish - does that mean Ive been unlucky, or should I forgive them and
burn more money on their products in a few years?

On that reasoning, I guess when maxtor make a 500g hdd, it will be safe to
buy it despite evrything else they sell being a pile of 'caca'

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 12:40:43 -0000, "Ed Start" <lost@inspace.com>
strung together this:

you've quoted. Obviously been on the cooking sherry.
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SJW
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"Ed Start" <lost@inspace.com> wrote in
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1) None of Netgear's products work, despite that being their
mainstream product space.
2) Ditto for Maxtor's disk products.

I suggest you apply some common sense.

Every manufacturer and service provider has its minority faction of
dissatisfied customers who resort to irrational and vociferous
campaigning against them.

Maybe they had a bad deal; but to translate that into XYZ Corp
products are all crap is a big leap.

And ultimately their strident wailing is inaccurate, ineffective
and plain BORING.

Euan:
I have also been reading this and alt.internet.wireless NG's for that length
of time and seen dozens and dozens of posts from people struggling with
Netgear stuff. Yes, Netgear sells lots of 'gear' because its cheap and quick
to the market, but is under developed and their firmware has to be
re-written at least half a dozen times, (often introducing new bugs),
before it works properly.
I just feel it's fair to warn people what to expect, no more, no less.
If they happy to buy with that knowledge, that's fine by me.
Regards,
Martin

"Martin²" <never@give.one> wrote in
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resolving problems, it wouldn't be surprising to find a lot of
discussion about Netgear problems, as they have a significant
market presence. I'd expect to see discussions about problems with
all of the other manufacturers as well, probably in proportion to
their market share.

So it looks like your position is based on your perceptions of one
personal experience 18 months ago, that obviously had a huge
emotional impact, which you continue to feed based on secondhand
information gleaned from newsgroups.

Meanwhile Netgear continue to ship hundreds of thousands of
products to satisfied customers all over the world. Which means
that our little discussion is pretty well irrelevant in the scheme
of things.