- Netgear DG834G (PC World)
- Posted by Dr Teeth on December 29th, 2004
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:46:11 -0000, "Gareth" <hotmail.com@dgareth.spm>
wrote:
Use P2P quite a bit here (cough, cough) and no problems whatsoever. I
use clients for all the networks/protocols, often several at the same
time.
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- Posted by Sunil Sood on December 29th, 2004
"Harry Bloomfield" <harry.m1bytNOSPAM@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
news:mn.d3727d4c34861712.8412@tiscali.co.uk
Well I picked one up at £44.99 the other day - if for no other reason than
to compare it to my existing Belkin 7630.
In addition, it may be useful in future as its firmware upgradable to
ADSL2/2+ which may prove useful next year, now that I have 3 LLU operators
at my exchange.
Regards
Sunil
- Posted by Sunil Sood on December 29th, 2004
"kraftee" <kraftee@spamoff& die.com> wrote in message
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I haven't been keeping up with adsl chipsets but their are only a handful of
designs i.e:
Broadcom
Connext
Texas Instruments etc
and all brands using the same chipset are likely to experience similar
issues..
I do note that Negear's firmware seems to be GPL though - so its always
possible a 3rd party may have a go at altering it - I think people alredy do
that with the Linksys ones...
Well they will still have to add/tweak the ADSL2/2+ support I imagine...
Regards
Sunil
- Posted by Alex Heney on December 29th, 2004
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:58:06 -0000, "kraftee" <kraftee@spamoff&
die.com> wrote:
<snip>
Yes, I've noticed it with my 3Com.
It actually got worse when I upgraded the firmware to 1.27 a month or
so ago, but when I upgraded to 1.28 a few days ago, I haven't had a
lock up since.
But that doesn't necessarily mean anything since even at its worst it
was usually several days between lock ups.
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- Posted by kraftee on December 29th, 2004
Alex Heney wrote:
You got my hopes raised there, but I'me just checked & am already running
that firmware. So it looks like I'll be leaving leaving the timer on the
power supply for now. Use it to reboot the router every 24 hours, seems to
work.....
- Posted by Filthy Rich on December 30th, 2004
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 13:44:26 -0000, "Ed Start" <lost@inspace.com>
wrote:
Just because you and a few others have had problems with yours,
doesn't count for the untold thousands who haven't....
Mine is in use about 12 hours a day over a VPN and also direct,
wireless with 3 PC's.
I'm on 1.5.0 and have always used the latest.
Yes, they are confident enough with it to want to sell as many as they
can....
Filthy Rich
Music House
- Posted by Gareth on December 30th, 2004
"kraftee" <kraftee@spamoff& die.com> wrote in message
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Interesting. I guess the grass isn't always greener.
Before the DG834 1.5 firmware release Netgear were advising people
experiencing the problem to use a beta driver that was supposed to partially
address this and some other problems. Iirc, and it's possible I don't, the
beta driver came after firmware version 1.04.01. The implication was that
version 1.5 would go a long way to solving the reboot problem.
Yes, Netgear isn't now as forthcoming about future DG834 firmware versions
as it previously was in providing the beta driver release.
Gareth.
- Posted by Martin² on December 30th, 2004
Draytek an Cisco sell to the 'office equipment' market, their kit is lot
more robust
and consequently expensive.
However I certainly don't regret paying Draytek's price, after wasting a
week with faulty Netgear,
I set the Draytek up in 10 min's back in May 2003, hasn't missed a bit
since.
Regards,
Martin
- Posted by Lurch on December 30th, 2004
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:26:37 -0000, "Martin²" <never@give.one> strung
together this:
Bit of what?
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- Posted by kraftee on December 30th, 2004
Martin² wrote:
Go on rub it in :-p
Bare in mind that the 3Com is supposedly office equipment as well though....
- Posted by Gareth on December 30th, 2004
"Martin²" <never@give.one> wrote in message
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I suppose you get what you pay for. Still, even by that standard May 2003
without a problem is very impressive.
How much did you pay?
Gareth.
- Posted by Peter M on December 30th, 2004
On 30 Dec 2004 in uk.telecom.broadband, "Gareth" wrote:
FWIW, the cheapo Ebuyer units (19.99 and 24.99) I bought in 2003, and the
DabsValue 4-port unit from 2002 work fine, but don't have wireless, and
while first Dabs I bought was around 90 quid in April 2002, the price
of others has been much lower... under 20 quid for a s/h unit I bought
a year ago... 'get what you pay for' is sometimes difficult to accept :-)
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- Posted by Martin² on December 31st, 2004
Gareth:
The Draytek 2600We was in short supply then (which made me buy the faulty
Netgear),
so the price was hefty £180 incl. delivery.
The current 2600G is still ~£152, but it does have all the bells, incl. USB
printer port.
Regards,
Martin
