Netgear-Poor quality

Anyone else find that the Netgear wireless router go bad every 6 months?
Not to mention their customer service stinks and must be in a foreign
country.

Netgear products are generally rebadged D-Link products.
rebadged for marketing purposes - different target markets.

"RH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<rcKdne-dgJtD6pXcRVn-(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Anyone else find that the Netgear wireless router go bad every 6 months?
> Not to mention their customer service stinks and must be in a foreign
> country.

I have to disagree on both counts.

1) I have been very satisfied with product quality and reliability.

2)In order for their customer service to stink they would have to have
customer service.


RH wrote:
> Anyone else find that the Netgear wireless router go bad every 6 months?
> Not to mention their customer service stinks and must be in a foreign
> country.
>
>

"RH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:rcKdne-dgJtD6pXcRVn-
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> Anyone else find that the Netgear wireless router go bad every 6 months?
> Not to mention their customer service stinks and must be in a foreign
> country.


All consumer grade equipment is crappy. You pay for what you get...

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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:06:43 -0600, "RH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Anyone else find that the Netgear wireless router go bad every 6 months?
>Not to mention their customer service stinks and must be in a foreign
>country.

Make, model, version, and condition (referbished, closeout, used)?
What were the symptoms? What works and what doesn't? Did you do
anything to the firmware? What did you do to troubleshoot the
problem? Did you try the router with another computah?

I've had routers go comatose on me only to find out that someone had
hacked into the router from the internet, and sprayed garbage into the
flash code. I've also had the settings go insane from static hits.
I've heard of, but not experienced, routers with flash cleared by
lightning hits.

I do mostly DLink, but digging through the inventory history, I see 12
assorted Netgear wireless routers (mostly MR814v2) installed since Jan
2003. No returns, no failures (other than trashed settings), and no
problems.

Wanna supply some specifics? Or should we classify your vague
denunciation as mere company hatred?

Oh yeah, tech support. I wouldn't know. I never call their tech
support unless I'm bored and need some entertainment value.

Incidentally, I've fixed quite a few XP boxes that magical don't
connect to the internet after spyware removal with:
http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html
If your router appears to "not respond" or you "cannot connect" to the
router, you might wanna try this fix.

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I, too, have to disagree. My experiences with Netgear have been
mostly positive. If you have a specific issue(s) with your router,
please tell us what it/they are. Maybe those of us who frequent this
newgroup can assist you.


On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:06:43 -0600, "RH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Anyone else find that the Netgear wireless router go bad every 6 months?
>Not to mention their customer service stinks and must be in a foreign
>country.
>

I have the WGR614 and I certainly have issues with it. I flashed the Bios on
it immediately after buying it about a month or so ago. I do not use it for
wireless yet, only wired. I turned off wireless completely. When I open a
browser or my Outlook 2002, it takes a solid 90 seconds for either to open.
If I reboot the router, they will come up immediately once or twice then we
are back to the 90 second routine. I read where someone said to shutoff the
SPI Firewall. I did that and ran for three days as a test, but had the same
exact issues as above. I turned it back on, no difference. This has happened
since the day I bought the router and I believe it is junk. I have reset
modem several times. Any other suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

Danny Fyffe


"Doug Jamal" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
> I, too, have to disagree. My experiences with Netgear have been
> mostly positive. If you have a specific issue(s) with your router,
> please tell us what it/they are. Maybe those of us who frequent this
> newgroup can assist you.
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:06:43 -0600, "RH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >Anyone else find that the Netgear wireless router go bad every 6 months?
> >Not to mention their customer service stinks and must be in a foreign
> >country.
> >
>

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:06:43 -0600, "RH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
:

>Anyone else find that the Netgear wireless router go bad every 6 months?
>Not to mention their customer service stinks and must be in a foreign
>country.
>
My experience is the reverse.
I got an ADSL modem and wireless router.
When I tried to connect the modem, it lost the config page half way
through and it wouldn't come back. I rang tech sp, the tech got me to
do some tests (much the same as I had already done), pronounced the
modem faulty, told me a new one was on it's way, and said not to
return the faulty one until the replacement had arrived and was
working.

Replacement modem arrived by courier the next day, and worked.

Network has now been up and running only a few weeks, but no probs
with 3 laptops and one desktop, and good range throughout the house
(triple brick walls) and all around the garden.
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Regards,
Peter Wilkins

Hi,

i have read about a wireless Service in the windows XP services for
easy WLAN networking.

Try to find it and disactivate it - then maybe it runs.

Try to search for it in the Microsoft Knwoledge Base.

Stefan Heinz

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:26:54 +1000, Peter Wilkins
<wilkinsp_nospam@delete_ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:06:43 -0600, "RH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>:
>
>>Anyone else find that the Netgear wireless router go bad every 6 months?
>>Not to mention their customer service stinks and must be in a foreign
>>country.
>
>My experience is the reverse.
>I got an ADSL modem and wireless router.
>When I tried to connect the modem, it lost the config page half way
>through and it wouldn't come back. I rang tech sp, the tech got me to
>do some tests (much the same as I had already done), pronounced the
>modem faulty, told me a new one was on it's way, and said not to
>return the faulty one until the replacement had arrived and was
>working.
>
>Replacement modem arrived by courier the next day, and worked.
>
>Network has now been up and running only a few weeks, but no probs
>with 3 laptops and one desktop, and good range throughout the house
>(triple brick walls) and all around the garden.

Likewise - except that my router was not faulty and worked straight
up. Review after review after review that I have read before and
since buying the unit marks it out as the best or very close to the
best unit in its class my personal experience of it would appear to
back that up. Relative to my neighbour's US Robotics equipment it is
fast, far more reliable and has vastly superior range.