DG814 Problem

I have recently purchased a DG814 and have been getting the ADSL line
dropping out on a regular basis in the last week or so. Previously the modem
would not respond to ADSL conneciton and I had to reboot it. This was about
once a week which was bad enough but just in the last few days the
ADSL/Internet light has been off when I am working on the PC and I have
tried to do various things to sort this from info given to me by my ISP (not
netgear cos their tech dept is crap - even worse when no one there can speak
proper english).

So anyways what is happening now is the internet light is switching off and
i have to shut the DG814 down for about 30 seconds to 1 hour. When I get
back online it can only sometimes be for a matter of minutes or up to about
5-6 hours. I have upgrade the firmware to v4.8 to see if this cures it but
no joy.

Does anyone know if there is a fix for this or is it a fault in the unit.

I did read somewhere that if you piggyback a second microfilter this might
cure it but I didnt want to spend more money doing this if it doesnt resolve
the issue

"Stuart Riddell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have recently purchased a DG814 and have been getting the ADSL line
> dropping out on a regular basis in the last week or so. Previously the
modem
> would not respond to ADSL conneciton and I had to reboot it. This was
about
> once a week which was bad enough but just in the last few days the
> ADSL/Internet light has been off when I am working on the PC and I have
> tried to do various things to sort this from info given to me by my ISP
(not
> netgear cos their tech dept is crap - even worse when no one there can
speak
> proper english).
>
> So anyways what is happening now is the internet light is switching off
and
> i have to shut the DG814 down for about 30 seconds to 1 hour. When I get
> back online it can only sometimes be for a matter of minutes or up to
about
> 5-6 hours. I have upgrade the firmware to v4.8 to see if this cures it but
> no joy.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a fix for this or is it a fault in the unit.
>
> I did read somewhere that if you piggyback a second microfilter this might
> cure it but I didnt want to spend more money doing this if it doesnt
resolve
> the issue
>
Try the beta version 4.9 RC1. It has aparrently fixed this for quite a rew
people.

Theres a link to it on the ADSL guide DSL hardware discussion forum.

Ive been using it for 2 weeks now without incident (not counting BT on
Sunday morning!)

Cheers

Phil