Hi,

For those who were disappointed trying to order one of these units via
their web site, they are also selling them in their stores at the same
price £44.99 today and tomorrow (27th). This is contrary to what
talking to their staff on the enquiry number seemed to indicate. When
I rang I was told if the web site indicated sold out, then they would
only be available in store at the usual price.

They had a pile of about 200 when I arrived there shortly after they
opened this morning at the Leeds PC World.

Combined 54Mb wireless access point, 4 port router, ADSL modem and
decent firewall in one box for £44.99... Can't be bad :-)

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Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.org

Harry Bloomfield wrote:
It is when they spontaneously reboot/reset themselves every 36 hours or
so....

"kraftee" <kraftee@spamoff& die.com> wrote in message

"It is when they spontaneously reboot/reset themselves every 36 hours or "

And when you try to log into admin interface to find it won't respond and
you have to reset it........ Still not as bad as their PCI wireless card.
The loop goes like this, boot up, XP starts, tries to launch the netgear
app, blue screen of death... repeat til fade......

Ed Start wrote:
I've actually got to say that I've never had that one & I'm very glad about
it as well...

"kraftee" <kraftee@spamoff& die.com> wrote in message
"I've actually got to say that I've never had that one & I'm very glad about
it as well... "

The comment - re blue screen of death refers to:>
Netgear WG311 54mbps 802.11g Wireless PCI Card

Read what "Emotional" people say about that...
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...50127&offset=0

Ed Start formulated the question :
Which would seem to be an entirely different product to the DG834G.

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Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.org

"Harry Bloomfield" <harry.m1bytNOSPAM@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message

Well Done - thats why I pointed it out :-)
Give yourself a gold star!

Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Still doesn't detract from the fact that a largish number of owners are
having problems with their DG834G's & Netgear doesn't appear to want to do
anything about it.

So far I'm on my third ticket as all do is close them down after asking me
the same question......what do I mean by reboot/soft boot, which mine is
doing at intermitent intervals. After answering their email it all goes
very quiet until I raise another ticket, it's been going on since
September....

"kraftee" <kraftee@spamoff& die.com> wrote in message
news:41cf1c6d$0$36639$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...

Nah...mighty fine bit of kit...once you upgrade the firmware!
Snip at the PC World price for sure....

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 20:00:53 GMT, Harry Bloomfield
<harry.m1bytNOSPAM@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

I have the DG834 and have not had any problems with it using the
latest firmware (the 'G' uses the same).

I think I heard somewhere the rebooting problem can be cured by giving
each PC a fixed IP addy.

It's been a fine bit of kit here.

73's de G4DWV ex-4X1LT

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"Dr Teeth" <no_email_here_please@tardis.com> wrote in message
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Nope, running my DG834G as a DHCP server for almost a year now, no problems
with rebooting.

Yes, best router I have had so far (out of 3).

Kraftee:
'Glad' to see that they keep up to the standard that I experienced 18
months ago.
But do phone up their helpline, don't miss on the chat with Ahmed in
Bangalore...,
just don't ask him anything remotely technical, he is just reading the very
same manual which didn't help you in the first place.
Regards,
Martin

"Martin²" <never@give.one> wrote in message
"But do phone up their helpline, don't miss on the chat with Ahmed in
Bangalore..."

For customer service I have to give Solwise 10/10. I fried a router on a
firmware upgrade. I emailed technical, they asked me to send it in and thet
repaired it free of charge. Was back inside 48 hours. The netgear went on
ebay and some other unlucky twat has got it now. That was suffering the lock
up & reboot problem with the latest firmware. I guess those of us who think
it's junk have not been unlucky enough to own something worse before.

On 27/12/2004 Dr Teeth wrote:


Walt lurks in this group, you need to correct that.

(73 is the correct term, meaning best wishes, 73's doesn't make sense)

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On 27 Dec 2004 10:12:38 GMT, "Jeff Gaines"
<whitedragon101@hotmail.com> wrote:

It does as you understood it <g>. '73' in CW '73s' in audio AFAIAC.

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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 00:40:02 -0000, "Clueless2" <no.spam> wrote:


Yes,

I find the people who have problems with them either don't use the
latest firmware or are just plain incompetents.

No problem with mine and now over a year old.

As for the prat who said they reboot every 36 hours but yet he has
never had one himself, I bet you've formed your own opinions.....


Filthy Rich
Music House

"Filthy Rich" <rchrddotspncr@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message

Don't be an ass man. Just because you've had no problems with yours, does
not count for the untold dozens who have. Perhaps you are only using yours
for basic use and others are actually using more of it than you.

Mine would lock up, with the latest firmware, randomly and always within 36
hours. That was running vanilla, out of the box. Maybe if it had old
firmware like yours, it would have been different. To make matters worse,
the support is utter crap.

Glad you are getting on with yours mind you. Seems odd that PC world are
having to nearly give them away now.... That speaks volumes.

Filthy Rich wrote:
Funny that it's sitting on top of my PC as I type.......

Yes it's got the latest update, yes Netgear keep closing the tech support
tickets without resolving the issue.

As for incompetence, well that's not for you to judge from your position....

So please get your facts right before flinging as a lot will come back in
your face..

Little hint...it's being caused (probably) by the number of users attempting
to connect to my server, well it's either that or a buffer over flow which
of course could be being caused by the number of people trying to
connect....

No I'm not using it at the moment as I'm finding that a 3Com 3CRE754G-A is
more stable, although slightly more complicated to set up correctly....

"Filthy Rich" <rchrddotspncr@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:g0g2t09tejjegjgsntb0qq8hb70upugv3j@4ax.com...
What an absolute prat *you* are.

The DG834 (even with the latest - and possibly the last - firmware version)
does have intermittent problems with reboot especially when using P2P
software or other software that permits a relatively large number of users
to connect.

One hope is that Netgear will solve the problem with a new firmware update
but there's no sign of it yet.

Gareth.

Gareth wrote:
Been doing a little bit of digging & found that 3Com & D-Link also do & that
3 Com freely admit it (Linksys display the same symptons, only more so)....

Just got to do a little more digging & see if Draytek or even Cisco have
the same problems (well to see if they're up front about it)...


Doubt it Gareth as I've said all the fairly major players in that part of
the market have similar problems....