Hi group,

A friend has a single desktop PC running on XP & connected to a Netgear
DG834G router via the Ethernet port.

He is looking at also buying a laptop which runs on Vista & connecting
wirelessly to the router.

Q. Will the router work with two different operating systems ?

Thanks.

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Joe Lee

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:29:17 +0100, "Joe Lee" <invalid@noaddress>
mused:

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Regards,
Stuart.

"Lurch" <myrealname@sjwelectrical.co.uk> wrote in message
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Yes, the router should not care what OS the PCs are.

However you may have a few issues with sharing folders/printers between XP
and Vista. On a simple peer-to-peer network, where the PCs are not members
of a domain with a server, you may need to allow Everyone full or read-only
access to the shared folders on the Vista PC in order that XP PCs can see
and access those resources. So far I've only had to look at XP-Vista sharing
for one customer - so far all my other customers with Vista have just had
the one PC so local networking hasn't been an issue.

Joe Lee wrote:
Will work no problem. Remind him to *not* put in the cd that came with the
router however. All he needs are the security key wep/wpa.

Gaz

Anthony R. Gold wrote:
That is certainly true for this router, however I have come across a router
that would *not* work under vista, for some reason the vista machine was
entirely unable to read the dhcp server and recieve the correct information
(manual IPs sorted it), this router had worked faultlessly with XP. It was
some kind of BT badged voyager router...

Gaz

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:47:57 +0100, "Gaz" <gazter@msn.com> mused:

of is the one with the manuals on it. I think you're getting confused
with ISP supplied equipment.
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Regards,
Stuart.

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:50:17 +0100, "Gaz" <gazter@msn.com> mused:

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Regards,
Stuart.

"Lurch" <myrealname@sjwelectrical.co.uk> wrote in message
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setting the router up.
it also has a manual on a CD.

Lurch wrote:
I never use setup cds, but recent netgears have come with cds, using setup
wizards.....

Gaz

"Ron" <ron@causeway3.com> wrote in news:46bf98ae$1_4@mk-nntp-
2.news.uk.tiscali.com:

Wrong. You don't use a driver with a router, it has network
interfaces.

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:32:53 +0100, "Ron" <ron@causeway3.com> mused:

Driver for what?

Didn't know they had that as well. Does that actually install anything
though or just run some shortcuts automatically straight from the CD?

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Regards,
Stuart.

"Gaz" <gazter@msn.com> wrote in message
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"security" and "wep" in the same sentence ? ;o)

"Gizmo." <spammers@suck.die> wrote in message
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Well WEP is more secure than no security at all. It will deter casual
hackers. I would imagine that most people would not know how to crack a WEP
key but would simply go elsewhere if they wanted a connection that they
could freeload on. Obviously there are determined hackers and with modern
technology and cracking programs, WEP will not stop them.

The problem is when you have existing equipment like range-extenders or some
older wireless adaptors which will not support WPA.

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:59:11 +0100, Lurch
<myrealname@sjwelectrical.co.uk> wrote:

I've a feeling it installs a utility that you can run to find the
router on your local network without you having knowledge of it's IP
address, taking you straight to the router login page. One like that
came with my DG834N.

I notice it goesn't work if the router has no connectivity to the
internet, so a bit of a bummer if you want to use it for diagnosing,
erm ... no connectivity.

Dunno how it actgually works.

DG

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:32:53 +0100, in uk.telecom.broadband , "Ron"
<ron@causeway3.com> wrote:

The router doesn't need a driver. The utility program MAY be useful,
but my experience is that they're either rubbish or just a web link to
the internal GUI...

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Mark McIntyre

"Mark McIntyre" <markmcintyre@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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Yes, given that the PC(s) connect only by Ethernet or wireless, no driver is
is needed on the PC in order to connect to that specific router. Of course
one may be needed for the LAN or wireless card, but that's not
router-specific.

The only time when a router CD might supply a driver that would need to be
installed is if the router had a USB port and this was used instead of the
LAN port. But that doesn't apply to the DG834x routers.

Thanks for the replies fellas - much appreciated !

Regards.
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Joe Lee