(E-Mail Removed) (Pizzle) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed). com>...
> Hi, I have an MR814 Wireless router and a Speedstream PCI card. I
> purchased this about a week ago. Out the box I was able to get it
> running fine. I experienced some drops, but overall it worked great.
> Two days later I couldn't connect from my remote computer to the web.
> I was still getting a signal from the router though. I did all the
> trouble shooting and nothing worked. I finaly reset the router to the
> default settings and it work fine for another day or two. Then I
> installed a network so I can share a printer. I used the Windows
> Network client. That worked fine for one day. Now I can't connect
> again from the remote computer. I tried resetting the router. No
> luck. I called tech support at Netgear. The tech support guys had me
> on the phone for 4 hours doing more troubleshooting. They were no
> help at all. I can ping the router, and the web IP address for
> yahoo.com and google.
That means you've got access to the net. When you type http://<IP address>,
say that of yahoo.com in the browser address window don't you get to the
site?
> But by browser still can't connect. I am
> unable to ping a site when I type in "ping yahoo.com".
There's certainly a pb with your DNS settings. Try to manually set the IP
addresses of your ISP's DNS servers.
I don't remember how this is done in XP but I think you've got to right
click on the Local Network icon then on properties
> They said it
> was something wrong with my OS. I reinstalled WIN XP. I can get a
> signal from the router but still can't surf.
>
> Is this Router a lemon or what? Has anyone experienced this? Any
> suggestions?
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