Looking for DG834GT review

Anyone know where theres a good one?

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> Anyone know where theres a good one?
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I'd recommend checking out the DG834G reviews - it's essentially a less
stable version of the DG834G with slightly faster wireless. I gather a
new firmware available soon should address some of the stability
problems that have plagued many people's GT's.

Cheers,
Alex

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> I'd recommend checking out the DG834G reviews - it's essentially a less
> stable version of the DG834G with slightly faster wireless. I gather a
> new firmware available soon should address some of the stability
> problems that have plagued many people's GT's.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex

From my experience of the GT a firmware upgrade to deal with the stability
is long overdue.

Nigel

"Nigel D" <annonymous@newsgroups> wrote in message
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>> I'd recommend checking out the DG834G reviews - it's essentially a less
>> stable version of the DG834G with slightly faster wireless. I gather a
>> new firmware available soon should address some of the stability
>> problems that have plagued many people's GT's.
>
> From my experience of the GT a firmware upgrade to deal with the stability
> is long overdue.

As a matter of interest, what are the symptoms of the stability problems
that you've had with it? I ask because I've had a DG834GT for about 6 months
and I've not had any problems with mine. I've neer had to switch it off or
reboot it. Occasionally the connection has dropped and taken a while to get
reconnected, but that's always between 0500 and 0700, and at no other time,
which makes me think that it coudl be my ISP or BT doing some sort of
maintenance work. Apart from those glitches, I've never had a problem with
any PC accessing the internet (Web browsing, POP/SMTP) nor has there ever
been a wireless networking problem that hasn't been cured by rebooting my
laptop or unplugging and replugging the USB wireless adaptor WG111T.

I've got V1.01.28 firmware. The only problem I know with this firmware is
that it has cocked up the date on the "Date:" field in emails of the log
files: it seems to be a month ahead of real time: although the timestamps
within the log files refer to the correct date (ie currently in September),
the Date field (which shows up in Outlook Express as the Sent time) is
October :-(

" >
> > From my experience of the GT a firmware upgrade to deal with the
> > stability
> > is long overdue.
>
> As a matter of interest, what are the symptoms of the stability problems
> that you've had with it? I ask because I've had a DG834GT for about 6
> months
> and I've not had any problems with mine. I've neer had to switch it off or
> reboot it. Occasionally the connection has dropped and taken a while to
> get
> reconnected, but that's always between 0500 and 0700, and at no other
> time,
> which makes me think that it coudl be my ISP or BT doing some sort of
> maintenance work. Apart from those glitches, I've never had a problem with
> any PC accessing the internet (Web browsing, POP/SMTP) nor has there ever
> been a wireless networking problem that hasn't been cured by rebooting my
> laptop or unplugging and replugging the USB wireless adaptor WG111T.
>
> I've got V1.01.28 firmware. The only problem I know with this firmware is
> that it has cocked up the date on the "Date:" field in emails of the log
> files: it seems to be a month ahead of real time: although the timestamps
> within the log files refer to the correct date (ie currently in
> September),
> the Date field (which shows up in Outlook Express as the Sent time) is
> October :-(
>

The first problem is with the idle timeout, which you will see if you are
'always on'. After an idle timeout the router often does not reconnect
properly, and gives erratic internet access. I suspect that it does not
reset the firewall connection status information. See
http://www.thedyers.org.uk/NetgearTest1.pdf

The next problem is that with my laptop a few feet from the router, which is
placed as per the instructions the status program tells me I am getting
108Mbits, as I would expect.

When I try a large file transfer, if I set the router to 108Mbit only, I get
a very poor data rate (e.g. 2Mbit/sec). If I set the router to 'Auto
108Mbps', the status program tells me that the data rate has dropped to
54Mbit/sec, and I acheive an actual transfer rate of up to 20Mbit/sec, which
is probably about right.

This appears to suggest that I never see a real 108Mbits transfer rate.

In the 'always on' mode over 2 months I have twice found that internet
performance became very slow or stopped and the router has to be reset, when
connection restores immediately.

Nigel D.
http://www.thedyers.org.uk/mail