Netgear DG834 Router/Modem/Firewall

I'm after a decent router/modem/firewall (not wireless) for around £50-60.
Any recommendations? I'm currently swayed towards the netgear dg834 which
is £62 at amazon.

"bob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm after a decent router/modem/firewall (not wireless) for around £50-60.
> Any recommendations? I'm currently swayed towards the netgear dg834 which
> is £62 at amazon.
>
>

I have had the DG834 (NON WiFi version) for a couple of months now, and it
has been on 24/7 and had no problems at all (updated it to latest v1.4
firmware).

I have heard people have had problems though, predominantly the WiFi
version, check out other threads in this NG.

Personally would be happy to recommend.

Dave

http://www.it-reality.co.uk/Reviews/...4Review_01.htm

Gets a good write up and also mentions niggles

"bob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm after a decent router/modem/firewall (not wireless) for around £50-60.
> Any recommendations? I'm currently swayed towards the netgear dg834 which
> is £62 at amazon.
>
>

Very fair review.

Thing has performed flawlessly here. Except with Pipex went down.

MK





On Sun, 9 May 2004 16:59:46 +0100, "Mr_K" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>http://www.it-reality.co.uk/Reviews/...4Review_01.htm
>
>Gets a good write up and also mentions niggles
>
>"bob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> I'm after a decent router/modem/firewall (not wireless) for around £50-60.
>> Any recommendations? I'm currently swayed towards the netgear dg834 which
>> is £62 at amazon.
>>
>>
>

"Dave Gibson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "bob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:c7lgtv$gq$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I'm after a decent router/modem/firewall (not wireless) for around
£50-60.
> > Any recommendations? I'm currently swayed towards the netgear dg834
which
> > is £62 at amazon.
> >
> >
>
> I have had the DG834 (NON WiFi version) for a couple of months now, and it
> has been on 24/7 and had no problems at all (updated it to latest v1.4
> firmware).
>
> I have heard people have had problems though, predominantly the WiFi
> version, check out other threads in this NG.
>
> Personally would be happy to recommend.
>
> Dave
>
>

No problem here - mine runs 24/7 wired/wireless and is very stable

cheers

Mark

"bob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm after a decent router/modem/firewall (not wireless) for around £50-60.
> Any recommendations? I'm currently swayed towards the netgear dg834 which
> is £62 at amazon.
>

I've had mine a month.

It froze up 4 times yesterday alone. It's not just the wireless that freezes
but the wired lan as well. (it seems to freeze when I don't have a wireless
client)

Also the initial version out of the box wouldn't handle VPN so I needed to
upgrade the firmware immediately.

It just isn't a finished product, I wouldn't recomend that anyone buy it.

"Frank X" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "bob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:c7lgtv$gq$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I'm after a decent router/modem/firewall (not wireless) for around
£50-60.
> > Any recommendations? I'm currently swayed towards the netgear dg834
which
> > is £62 at amazon.
> >
>
> I've had mine a month.
>
> It froze up 4 times yesterday alone. It's not just the wireless that
freezes
> but the wired lan as well. (it seems to freeze when I don't have a
wireless
> client)
>
> Also the initial version out of the box wouldn't handle VPN so I needed to
> upgrade the firmware immediately.
>
> It just isn't a finished product, I wouldn't recomend that anyone buy it.
>
Ive been running a DG834G for three months almost. It has never locked up
or crashed once since it was installed. A fine piece of kit, that is
working very well at my location. Go and get one....

Tommy

"Tommy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > It just isn't a finished product, I wouldn't recomend that anyone buy
it.
> >
> Ive been running a DG834G for three months almost. It has never locked up
> or crashed once since it was installed. A fine piece of kit, that is
> working very well at my location. Go and get one....
>

What version of the firmware are you using?

I have found 1.04.01 freezes up and 1.03.00 wouldn't allow vpn pass-through
connections (confirmed by netgear).

If the problem is faulty hardware and not just crap firmware, I'll get a
replacement, but I'm not convinced because I've seen a few people having the
same freezing problems.

Frank X wrote:
> "bob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:c7lgtv$gq$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I'm after a decent router/modem/firewall (not wireless) for around
>> £50-60. Any recommendations? I'm currently swayed towards the
>> netgear dg834 which is £62 at amazon.
>>
>
> I've had mine a month.
>
> It froze up 4 times yesterday alone. It's not just the wireless that
> freezes but the wired lan as well. (it seems to freeze when I don't
> have a wireless client)
>
> Also the initial version out of the box wouldn't handle VPN so I
> needed to upgrade the firmware immediately.
>
> It just isn't a finished product, I wouldn't recomend that anyone buy
> it.

I've had mine since December. It occasionally throws a tantrum but has
basically been pretty solid. I've upgraded to 1.03.00 to 1.04.00 and now
1.04.01. When I upgraded to 1.04.01 I did see the wireless side drop when
clients wereen't connected. This problem has completely vanished since I
disabled SSID broadcast. I have read on forums elsewhere that this has fixed
the problem for other(s) too. I run up to three wireless clients and a wired
Xbox. It has stayed up fine through lengthy P2P sessions and big FTP
transfers.

At the time of writing I have 248 hours of uptime since the last reboot
(when I was fiddling around changing port forwarding rules for P2P).

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"Tiny Tim" <_(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Frank X wrote:
> > "bob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:c7lgtv$gq$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> I'm after a decent router/modem/firewall (not wireless) for around
> >> £50-60. Any recommendations? I'm currently swayed towards the
> >> netgear dg834 which is £62 at amazon.
> >>
> >
> > I've had mine a month.
> >
> > It froze up 4 times yesterday alone. It's not just the wireless that
> > freezes but the wired lan as well. (it seems to freeze when I don't
> > have a wireless client)
> >
> > Also the initial version out of the box wouldn't handle VPN so I
> > needed to upgrade the firmware immediately.
> >
> > It just isn't a finished product, I wouldn't recomend that anyone buy
> > it.
>
> I've had mine since December. It occasionally throws a tantrum but has
> basically been pretty solid. I've upgraded to 1.03.00 to 1.04.00 and now
> 1.04.01. When I upgraded to 1.04.01 I did see the wireless side drop when
> clients wereen't connected. This problem has completely vanished since I
> disabled SSID broadcast. I have read on forums elsewhere that this has
fixed
> the problem for other(s) too. I run up to three wireless clients and a
wired
> Xbox. It has stayed up fine through lengthy P2P sessions and big FTP
> transfers.
>

I disabled SSID an it appeared to improve for a while, but recently it has
gone back to freezing up.

> At the time of writing I have 248 hours of uptime since the last reboot
> (when I was fiddling around changing port forwarding rules for P2P).
>

Yep I use the features of the device like port forwarding, perhaps that is
my mistake. Perhaps if I do a full reset and reload the firmware it will be
OK, perhaps not.

Anyway it's a lot more work than I would expect. I'm especially sceptical of
the quality of the firmware given my initial problems with VPN.