- DG834G questions
- Posted by Sunil Sood on January 16th, 2005
I've been playing with a Netgear DG834G recently (as opposed to my normal
Belkin 7630) and have the following minor quibbles/questions and am
wondering if its just me,. or have other users of the DG834G experienced the
same issues.
Using the latest v1.05 firmware..
a) Under "Attached Devices" it displays "Unknown" against Device Name for my
(wired) PC which is running WinXP2 with Windows Firewall - instead of the
computer name
b) Sometimes when visiting a web site for the 1st time, I get a "page not
found", though it appears when I refresh the page - though this could be
down to my ISP's DNS servers (so I am now trying manually specifying some
other DNS servers to see if it continues to happen.)
Also re: time settings - its a shame that one must manually choose "Adjust
for Daylight Savings Time" at the beginning of BST and then uncheck it at
the end of the Daylight Savings period for the times to be correct - rather
than the router being able to do this itself intelligently (once the option
has been selected)
Regards
Sunil
- Posted by Gareth on January 16th, 2005
"Sunil Sood" <news@soods.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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I don't think the PC name it is automatically passed unless the name has
been configured via some sort of LAN config which I'm unable to recall.
I had problems with my own ISP in this regard - I manually specified servers
and this seems to have fixed the problem.
It does do it automatically - eventually. It takes a number of weeks
following daylight savings time changes for the router to adjust despite
receiving prompt time server information! I don't know why this is but it
does adjust the settings after a number of weeks. Using different time
servers doesn't seem to help. It could be a firmware problem.
Gareth.
- Posted by M on January 17th, 2005
"Gareth" <hotmail.com@dgareth.spm> wrote in message
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Does anyone know if the 834G is now "end of life" and it's unlikely there
will be any further firmware updates?
- Posted by Gareth on January 17th, 2005
"M" <martyns20@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Well, there hasn't been an upgrade for a while despite the unfixed problems
(including time update, p2p disconnections and the tendency to reboot when
facing a line noise problem - firmware bug probably causing a buffer
overflow in reported line noise).
I don't have time to look at the history of previous models and when their
updates stopped but a poster here a few weeks or so ago described his
previous experience of being left in the lurch by Netgear in terms of bugged
firmware.
Gareth.
- Posted by Troy Tempest on January 17th, 2005
"Sunil Sood" <news@soods.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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You have to name the devices in LAN IP Setup down in the address reservation
bit.
I'm assuming that you're on Bulldog the same as myself Sunil, as this has
happened to me but only in the last few weeks.
Can't say I've noticed this niggle, afaik it's always kept the right time.
Neil
- Posted by David on January 17th, 2005
"M" <martyns20@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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interestingly if you look at Netgear's source code page
(http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101238.asp) you'll see that there
is a version 1.10.08 listed, although it's not offered as an option on the
main DG834G support page yet. So whether this is beta code still awaiting
general release I'm not sure but it looks like someone is doing further
work.
David
- Posted by M on January 17th, 2005
"David" <mail@home.net> wrote in message
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http://www.longview.eclipse.co.uk/netgear
Seems ok from comments in Netgear Forums.
- Posted by Filthy Rich on January 17th, 2005
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:51:17 -0000, "Troy Tempest"
<TroyTempest@marineville.com> wrote:
This has also started happening to me in the last few weeks but I
don't think it is the DG834G. I'm on Pipex and assumed it was them or
the fact that it seemed to start not long after I upgraded to 2Mb
service.
Filthy Rich
Music House
- Posted by Brian McIlwrath on January 17th, 2005
Gareth <hotmail.com@dgareth.spm> wrote:
: Well, there hasn't been an upgrade for a while despite the unfixed problems
: (including time update, p2p disconnections and the tendency to reboot when
: facing a line noise problem - firmware bug probably causing a buffer
: overflow in reported line noise).
Well I have seen NONE of the above problems! Mine just works week after week
with no problems!
- Posted by Sunil Sood on January 18th, 2005
"M" <martyns20@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I imagine that firmware updates will continue for a while at least - Netgear
promise that this model will support ADSL2/2+ and I imagine that will need
require additional firmware updates.
Regards
Sunil
- Posted by Sunil Sood on January 18th, 2005
"Troy Tempest" <TroyTempest@marineville.com> wrote in message
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Ah - I see.. this is different from the Belkin 7630 which seems to pick
these names up automatically..
Yes, I am. on Bulldog - This problem started for me just before the New
Year - about the same time as I started trying the Netgear... - have now
manually specified some DNS servers to see what happens.
Regards
Sunil
- Posted by Brian McIlwrath on January 18th, 2005
Sunil Sood <news@soods.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
: >
: > You have to name the devices in LAN IP Setup down in the address
: > reservation bit.
: Ah - I see.. this is different from the Belkin 7630 which seems to pick
: these names up automatically..
The first post is plain wrong! The DG834G picks up the device names from
Windows networking WITHOUT any other settings.
If, however, you run something like Linux it cannot do this.
- Posted by Sunil Sood on January 18th, 2005
"Brian McIlwrath" <bkm@bkmpc.bnsc.rl.ac.uk> wrote in message
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I am using WinXP with SP2 (+ Windows firewall..)
Regards
Sunil
- Posted by Philip K on January 30th, 2005
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:36:04 -0000, "M" <martyns20@hotmail.com> wrote:
There is a version 1.10.10 there which I installed on my DG834G last
night. No problems that I have noticed since installing it.
I did notice that the DG834G reports 2 different firmware revisions on
its "Router Status" page - the "firmware version" (which for me is now
1.10.10) and the "ADSL firmware version" (which for me is now 3.01.02.00
- much higher than it had been previously).
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Philip
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