In anticipation of being able to receive broadband I have been looking
for a suitable router and the Netgear seems to fit the bill, however
reading the ADSLguide review of it, it seems that it does not support
SNR reporting. Is there another router in this class that would have
that feature.

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In message <41a8fe64$1@news.greennet.net>, David G
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latest V1.05.00 firmware.

Current figures from mine look like
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 1152 kbps 288 kbps
Line Attenuation 39 db 25 db
Noise Margin 18 db 30 db

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On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:26:21 +0000, David G <notreallyhere@sure>
wrote:

it does, its the .05 fimrware upgrade (which also stops it
disconnecting regularly). Seems to get more than its statistical share
of detractors / bad experiences.

Phil
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Phil Thompson wrote:
Doesn't stop mine from rebooting on a regular basis (& Netgear apparently
don't wont to know either)...

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:21:59 -0000, "kraftee" <kraftee@spamoff&
die.com> wrote:

I'll add that to the statistical bias against them :-)

Phil
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Add my 2p worth.

Worked really well from the word go. Updated the firmware to 1.05.00
version. It gives details of the line etc. Easy to configure etc.

Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 1152 kbps 288 kbps
Line Attenuation 20 db 8.5 db
Noise Margin 28 db 31 db

That is from my installation.
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"Phil Thompson" <phil.thompson@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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Was the upgrade easy to do, mine is on 1.01 and as you say worked first time
all the time out of the can so to say.

Peter.

Really easy, downloaded the firmware from the Netgear support site.

http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/DG834G.asp

Unzipped it in a temporary directory. Opened the web interface in Internet
Explorer, chose "Route Upgrade" then browsed to the downloaded file. It the
uploaded it to the router. After upload I rebooted (power off then on) the
router and it all worked again.

mk38

PS I used a wired connection to do the upgrade (not wireless).


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Cheers for that, I've not got round to using the wireless bit yet.

Peter.

Phil Thompson wrote:
Thanks All

Didn't realize that they had released another firmware upgrade, and that
it incorporated that feature. If my ISDN conversion is successful then
that is the one I will go for.

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"David G" <notreallyhere@sure> wrote in message
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It does have that feature and it works well... ADSLGuide are wrong, if
thats what they are saying.

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:09:53 -0000, "Tez" <30497407@mail2me.com>
wrote:

they say "One nice addition with the latest firmware in this router is
that the ADSL attenuation and noise margin figures are available on
the statistics page." ie out of the box it didn't have it. That was
the 834G review. The 834 is an older review so what it said would be
true at the time.

http://www.adslguide.org.uk/reviews/

Phil
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Phil Thompson wrote:
That is what I read since it was the non wireless I was interested in.

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On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:44:43 +0000, Phil Thompson
<phil.thompson@spamcop.net> wrote:

I don't agree. As I understand it (I don't, however, have any
official figures) this is the most popular consumer unit on the market
by some distance therefore you would expect to see a greater number of
complaints against than other units. People are far quicker to
complain than they are to praise.

And for the record - one very happy DG834G user here.

Phil Thompson <phil.thompson@spamcop.net> wrote:
: >Doesn't stop mine from rebooting on a regular basis (& Netgear apparently
: >don't wont to know either)...

: I'll add that to the statistical bias against them :-)

I will counter that! Mine never reboots - it just runs perfectly week after
week.

Whatever you do, don't contact their tech support for it! They are the worst
tech support / customer services I have ever experienced.


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Brian McIlwrath wrote:
All I'll say is I wish mind did, I'm pretty sure it's down to some type of
buffer over run, but which one & how to stop it.....Well that's another
matter...

kraftee <kraftee@spamoff& die.com> wrote:
: >>> Doesn't stop mine from rebooting on a regular basis (& Netgear
: >>> apparently don't wont to know either)...
: >
: >> I'll add that to the statistical bias against them :-)
: >
: > I will counter that! Mine never reboots - it just runs perfectly week
: > after week.

: All I'll say is I wish mind did, I'm pretty sure it's down to some type of
: buffer over run, but which one & how to stop it.....Well that's another
: matter...

Should have said mine is a DG834G with the latest 1.05 firmware. It is
normally powered up all the time (except when I am away for a few days). I
cannot recall if it has EVER hung!

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:04:36 +0000 (UTC), Brian McIlwrath
<bkm@bkmpc.bnsc.rl.ac.uk> wrote:

Mine has performed brilliantly. The wireless ran for about 2000hrs
until one day I had been streaming music off the server continuously
for several hours and it suddenly hung completely. After resetting it
I changed the encryption to WPA (having upgraded one of the client
machines which had previously been unable to use WPA). Once done the
wireless (and but immediately reconnected) after only about 48hrs and
I did wonder if my luck had run out. But since then it's back up to
over 500hrs so things are looking up.