DG834G - Rebooting any ideas

I have recently upgraded to a 1mbps from a 512kbps service

The Line attenuation is 55dB Occationally the router is fully rebooting, all
the lights extinguish and the router restarts.

Although I did not notice it, it may have been doing it with the 512kbps
service. Netgear has replaced the router with a V2 DG834G unit, having
connected it all up today this new router had already rebooted once.

Its not a major hassle, I have reflashed the firmware, and dropped it back
to the 1.04.01 firmware.

The router is not loosing sync thats what makes me think there is a
different problem. It does this when there are no computers switched on, on
the network so it cannot be a multiple connection through the router such as
a virus causing it to fall over. (my norton av is upto date on all machines)

There are also two network printers connected to the router with cables.

Any Ideas welcomed

Shunt....

The Shuntfield wrote:
> I have recently upgraded to a 1mbps from a 512kbps service
>
> The Line attenuation is 55dB Occationally the router is fully
> rebooting, all the lights extinguish and the router restarts.
>
> Although I did not notice it, it may have been doing it with the
> 512kbps service. Netgear has replaced the router with a V2 DG834G
> unit, having connected it all up today this new router had already
> rebooted once.
> Its not a major hassle, I have reflashed the firmware, and dropped
> it back to the 1.04.01 firmware.
>
> The router is not loosing sync thats what makes me think there is a
> different problem. It does this when there are no computers
> switched on, on the network so it cannot be a multiple connection
> through the router such as a virus causing it to fall over. (my
> norton av is upto date on all machines)
> There are also two network printers connected to the router with
> cables.
> Any Ideas welcomed
>
> Shunt....

All I can offer is that you are not alone, my V2 suffers from intermittent
rebooting also. I have reported this to Netgear & other than a short email
saying that they don't understand what I meant by rebooting absolutley
nothing.

Suggest you report it to Netgear as well, hopefully they will get around to
doing something about it eventually but I must say that I'm not impressed
with their after sales/support (& this is after 10 years of using other
assorted Netgear products with no problems at all)

"Kráftéé" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> The Shuntfield wrote:
>> I have recently upgraded to a 1mbps from a 512kbps service
>>
>> The Line attenuation is 55dB Occationally the router is fully
>> rebooting, all the lights extinguish and the router restarts.
>>
>> Although I did not notice it, it may have been doing it with the
>> 512kbps service. Netgear has replaced the router with a V2 DG834G
>> unit, having connected it all up today this new router had already
>> rebooted once.
>> Its not a major hassle, I have reflashed the firmware, and dropped
>> it back to the 1.04.01 firmware.
>>
>> The router is not loosing sync thats what makes me think there is a
>> different problem. It does this when there are no computers
>> switched on, on the network so it cannot be a multiple connection
>> through the router such as a virus causing it to fall over. (my
>> norton av is upto date on all machines)
>> There are also two network printers connected to the router with
>> cables.
>> Any Ideas welcomed
>>
>> Shunt....
>
> All I can offer is that you are not alone, my V2 suffers from intermittent
> rebooting also. I have reported this to Netgear & other than a short
> email saying that they don't understand what I meant by rebooting
> absolutley nothing.
>
> Suggest you report it to Netgear as well, hopefully they will get around
> to doing something about it eventually but I must say that I'm not
> impressed with their after sales/support (& this is after 10 years of
> using other assorted Netgear products with no problems at all)
>

Have you tried upgrading to the v1.05.00 firmware, then performing a factory
reset? I found the v1.05.00 firmware much more stable on BT than 1.04.01 -
the adsl driver is different between these versions. My Dg834G stays up for
days/weeks...well unless the line goes down or I reboot it myself

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:32:08 +0100, "The Shuntfield"
<nospam@spammers_are_scum.com> wrote:

>I have recently upgraded to a 1mbps from a 512kbps service
>
>The Line attenuation is 55dB Occationally the router is fully rebooting, all
>the lights extinguish and the router restarts.
>
>Although I did not notice it, it may have been doing it with the 512kbps
>service. Netgear has replaced the router with a V2 DG834G unit, having
>connected it all up today this new router had already rebooted once.
>
>Its not a major hassle, I have reflashed the firmware, and dropped it back
>to the 1.04.01 firmware.
>
>The router is not loosing sync thats what makes me think there is a
>different problem. It does this when there are no computers switched on, on
>the network so it cannot be a multiple connection through the router such as
>a virus causing it to fall over. (my norton av is upto date on all machines)
>
>There are also two network printers connected to the router with cables.
>
>Any Ideas welcomed

Firmware v1.05 actually uses a slighly older version of the ADSL
microcode because there were problems with v1.0401 - also my router
has never been more stable since the upgrade. Two months without
fault now, although I did reset it after 36 days by unplugging and
moving the unit. It did not require the reset and has run 30 days
since then also without requiring a recent.

MM <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

: Have you tried upgrading to the v1.05.00 firmware, then performing a factory
: reset? I found the v1.05.00 firmware much more stable on BT than 1.04.01 -
: the adsl driver is different between these versions. My Dg834G stays up for
: days/weeks...well unless the line goes down or I reboot it myself

Mine is also in the days/weeks camp!

MM wrote:
> "Kráftéé" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:4153c53d$0$17934$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> The Shuntfield wrote:
>>> I have recently upgraded to a 1mbps from a 512kbps service
>>>
>>> The Line attenuation is 55dB Occationally the router is fully
>>> rebooting, all the lights extinguish and the router restarts.
>>>
>>> Although I did not notice it, it may have been doing it with the
>>> 512kbps service. Netgear has replaced the router with a V2 DG834G
>>> unit, having connected it all up today this new router had already
>>> rebooted once.
>>> Its not a major hassle, I have reflashed the firmware, and dropped
>>> it back to the 1.04.01 firmware.
>>>
>>> The router is not loosing sync thats what makes me think there is
>>> a different problem. It does this when there are no computers
>>> switched on, on the network so it cannot be a multiple connection
>>> through the router such as a virus causing it to fall over. (my
>>> norton av is upto date on all machines)
>>> There are also two network printers connected to the router with
>>> cables.
>>> Any Ideas welcomed
>>>
>>> Shunt....
>>
>> All I can offer is that you are not alone, my V2 suffers from
>> intermittent rebooting also. I have reported this to Netgear &
>> other than a short email saying that they don't understand what I
>> meant by rebooting absolutley nothing.
>>
>> Suggest you report it to Netgear as well, hopefully they will get
>> around to doing something about it eventually but I must say that
>> I'm not impressed with their after sales/support (& this is after
>> 10 years of using other assorted Netgear products with no problems
>> at all)
>
> Have you tried upgrading to the v1.05.00 firmware, then performing
> a factory reset? I found the v1.05.00 firmware much more stable on
> BT than 1.04.01 - the adsl driver is different between these
> versions. My Dg834G stays up for days/weeks...well unless the line
> goes down or I reboot it myself

Have already done so, but what the hell I'll do it again, it helps pass the
time......

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:04:20 +0000 (UTC), Brian McIlwrath
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>MM <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>: Have you tried upgrading to the v1.05.00 firmware, then performing a factory
>: reset? I found the v1.05.00 firmware much more stable on BT than 1.04.01 -
>: the adsl driver is different between these versions. My Dg834G stays up for
>: days/weeks...well unless the line goes down or I reboot it myself
>
>Mine is also in the days/weeks camp!


I'm heading for months....


Filthy Rich
Music House

The saga continues

I phone Netgear support (agree its pretty dire) and they have replaced the
router with a Version 2 router which does the same thing.

However thinking it might have been a firmware problem I downgraded the
firmware to 1.04.01 - Today the router locked up. When I came home from work
I fired my laptop up - No signal checked the router no Wireless Light on.
All others seemed OK. So I tried to connect to the router via a cabled PC.

No joy there. Eventually had to power cycle the router.

Although it hasn't as far as I can tell restarted on its own accord (Log
gets wiped on a restart)

Still on-going.....

Shunt.....


"MM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "Kráftéé" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> The Shuntfield wrote:
>>> I have recently upgraded to a 1mbps from a 512kbps service
>>>
>>> The Line attenuation is 55dB Occationally the router is fully
>>> rebooting, all the lights extinguish and the router restarts.
>>>
>>> Although I did not notice it, it may have been doing it with the
>>> 512kbps service. Netgear has replaced the router with a V2 DG834G
>>> unit, having connected it all up today this new router had already
>>> rebooted once.
>>> Its not a major hassle, I have reflashed the firmware, and dropped
>>> it back to the 1.04.01 firmware.
>>>
>>> The router is not loosing sync thats what makes me think there is a
>>> different problem. It does this when there are no computers
>>> switched on, on the network so it cannot be a multiple connection
>>> through the router such as a virus causing it to fall over. (my
>>> norton av is upto date on all machines)
>>> There are also two network printers connected to the router with
>>> cables.
>>> Any Ideas welcomed
>>>
>>> Shunt....
>>
>> All I can offer is that you are not alone, my V2 suffers from
>> intermittent rebooting also. I have reported this to Netgear & other
>> than a short email saying that they don't understand what I meant by
>> rebooting absolutley nothing.
>>
>> Suggest you report it to Netgear as well, hopefully they will get around
>> to doing something about it eventually but I must say that I'm not
>> impressed with their after sales/support (& this is after 10 years of
>> using other assorted Netgear products with no problems at all)
>>
>
> Have you tried upgrading to the v1.05.00 firmware, then performing a
> factory reset? I found the v1.05.00 firmware much more stable on BT than
> 1.04.01 - the adsl driver is different between these versions. My Dg834G
> stays up for days/weeks...well unless the line goes down or I reboot it
> myself
>