- Netgear DG834 Router/Modem/Firewall
- Posted by bob on May 9th, 2004
I'm after a decent router/modem/firewall (not wireless) for around £50-60.
Any recommendations? I'm currently swayed towards the netgear dg834 which
is £62 at amazon.
- Posted by Dave Gibson on May 9th, 2004
"bob" <bob@bob.bob.com> wrote in message
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I have had the DG834 (NON WiFi version) for a couple of months now, and it
has been on 24/7 and had no problems at all (updated it to latest v1.4
firmware).
I have heard people have had problems though, predominantly the WiFi
version, check out other threads in this NG.
Personally would be happy to recommend.
Dave
- Posted by Mr_K on May 9th, 2004
http://www.it-reality.co.uk/Reviews/...4Review_01.htm
Gets a good write up and also mentions niggles 
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- Posted by kenward@ukgateway.net on May 9th, 2004
Very fair review.
Thing has performed flawlessly here. Except with Pipex went down.
MK
On Sun, 9 May 2004 16:59:46 +0100, "Mr_K" <abuse@donkey.net> wrote:
- Posted by MM on May 9th, 2004
"Dave Gibson" <sp@m.less> wrote in message
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No problem here - mine runs 24/7 wired/wireless and is very stable
cheers
Mark
- Posted by Frank X on May 9th, 2004
"bob" <bob@bob.bob.com> wrote in message
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I've had mine a month.
It froze up 4 times yesterday alone. It's not just the wireless that freezes
but the wired lan as well. (it seems to freeze when I don't have a wireless
client)
Also the initial version out of the box wouldn't handle VPN so I needed to
upgrade the firmware immediately.
It just isn't a finished product, I wouldn't recomend that anyone buy it.
- Posted by Tommy on May 9th, 2004
"Frank X" <Frank_spam52@yahoo.ie> wrote in message
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or crashed once since it was installed. A fine piece of kit, that is
working very well at my location. Go and get one....
Tommy
- Posted by Frank X on May 10th, 2004
"Tommy" <tom094@nospam.net> wrote in message
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What version of the firmware are you using?
I have found 1.04.01 freezes up and 1.03.00 wouldn't allow vpn pass-through
connections (confirmed by netgear).
If the problem is faulty hardware and not just crap firmware, I'll get a
replacement, but I'm not convinced because I've seen a few people having the
same freezing problems.
- Posted by Tiny Tim on May 10th, 2004
Frank X wrote:
I've had mine since December. It occasionally throws a tantrum but has
basically been pretty solid. I've upgraded to 1.03.00 to 1.04.00 and now
1.04.01. When I upgraded to 1.04.01 I did see the wireless side drop when
clients wereen't connected. This problem has completely vanished since I
disabled SSID broadcast. I have read on forums elsewhere that this has fixed
the problem for other(s) too. I run up to three wireless clients and a wired
Xbox. It has stayed up fine through lengthy P2P sessions and big FTP
transfers.
At the time of writing I have 248 hours of uptime since the last reboot
(when I was fiddling around changing port forwarding rules for P2P).
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- Posted by Frank X on May 10th, 2004
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I disabled SSID an it appeared to improve for a while, but recently it has
gone back to freezing up.
Yep I use the features of the device like port forwarding, perhaps that is
my mistake. Perhaps if I do a full reset and reload the firmware it will be
OK, perhaps not.
Anyway it's a lot more work than I would expect. I'm especially sceptical of
the quality of the firmware given my initial problems with VPN.
- Posted by Clive Page on May 10th, 2004
In message <2g7u4pF51kndU1@uni-berlin.de>, Frank X
<Frank_spam52@yahoo.ie> writes
I also suspect it's bad firmware: my DG834G was crashing about every
hour or so using 1.03.00, but now using 1.03.01 typically only crashes
every few hours. That's still annoying though. I don't think I would
recommend it, but have seen similar reports from users of some other
leading brands. I don't know what brand really is reliable.
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- Posted by Martin² on May 11th, 2004
Draytek Vigor 2600 range is well known for it's reliability.
I bought one after getting very frustrated with crap Netgear kit and
software - which I returned.
Installed it in 10 min's in the attic last May and haven't even seen it
since.
Firmware updates ? I have better things to do !
Regards,
Martin
- Posted by Chris on May 11th, 2004
In article <7FFnc.1488$wI4.176021@wards.force9.net>,
_tim_dodd@hotmail.com says...
http://www.solwise.co.uk/modems.htm
They have a good range and when you ring up for support you get a real
person in Hull who knows EVERYTHING and walks you through any problems
you may have. Invaluable!
Pip pip
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