On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:43:37PM +0100, bjsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
What I was trying to say is that if a number of people have a Netgear DG834 and the same firmware, say 1.01, I don't see why some of them should have problems with it and not others which is what appears to happen.
I would put it down to them having different ISPs (who could be using different settings) being on different exchanges (which have different ADSL kit) having different wireless cards which don't seem to be so much of a standard as people think. Different patterns of usage, etc. etc. and all this boils down to some people will trigger bugs that others won't see.
Lots of problems with the DG834G seemed to be combinations of having ESSID turned on or off, using different types of encryption on the wireless etc. (some people were reporting problems that 1 wireless card would consistantly kill the router but another card the same would work fine, another was people found that running Windows XP as a wireless network client would lock the router up but the same machine running Windows 2000 or Linux would be fine) but there are so many ways to configure the router that it is easy for 2 people with exactly indentical equipment to have problems just from changing 1 option a bit like all software and hardware combos really.
Adam