NETGEAR routers are crap
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NETGEAR routers are crap
I recently purchased one with wireless and it's a joke.
This thing will randomly change your IP in the middle of a file transfer from another computer on a LAN (Even with static IP's set on both the PC and in the router with DHCP turned off), which isn't good when you have strict firewall access. It will randomly change all of your 192.168.1.xxx ip's to 10.0.0.xxx which isn't good when you have all of your LAN pc's setup for static IP's. It will randomly stop accepting connections from wireless devices when you have controlled access turned on, which forces you to power cycle it.
Ugh. Why don't companies make decent products any more. I tried calling customer service and ended up talking to some guy who said, "Oh we can't run our diagnostics because you didn't register it yet". What? I'm thinking dude, what diagnostics do you have to run? I set everything a certain way and your firmware randomly changes the settings... It's a bug! Apparently these netgear guys on the other end don't have the slightest clue how routers work, they only know how to use a windows based application that doesn't know how to diagnose the problem unless you run the wizard on the router to install it, which I can't do because of the way my network is set up.
Anyway, that's my first and last netgear purchase. This is just a fair warning if your ever at the store picking out a wireless router. Buy another brand.
This thing will randomly change your IP in the middle of a file transfer from another computer on a LAN (Even with static IP's set on both the PC and in the router with DHCP turned off), which isn't good when you have strict firewall access. It will randomly change all of your 192.168.1.xxx ip's to 10.0.0.xxx which isn't good when you have all of your LAN pc's setup for static IP's. It will randomly stop accepting connections from wireless devices when you have controlled access turned on, which forces you to power cycle it.
Ugh. Why don't companies make decent products any more. I tried calling customer service and ended up talking to some guy who said, "Oh we can't run our diagnostics because you didn't register it yet". What? I'm thinking dude, what diagnostics do you have to run? I set everything a certain way and your firmware randomly changes the settings... It's a bug! Apparently these netgear guys on the other end don't have the slightest clue how routers work, they only know how to use a windows based application that doesn't know how to diagnose the problem unless you run the wizard on the router to install it, which I can't do because of the way my network is set up.
Anyway, that's my first and last netgear purchase. This is just a fair warning if your ever at the store picking out a wireless router. Buy another brand.
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I had a friend that had a Netgear problem once. I personally am sold on Linksys. Their products have rarely had issues for me, and they have lasted a long time for me.
I do, and a few hours later it changes them back. I'll throw up the model number later. I'm going to sell this on e-bay with the title, "WORST ROUTER EVER NO RESERVE!"iknownothing wrote:I believe NETGEAR's standard IP adress is 10.0.0.1, perhaps changing it to 192.168.1.0 may fix it?
I can't believe these people are in business.
My friend recently has expressed anger towards netgear routers with me. 
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From a 4-port switch that handled my first ethernet (not 10base-T!) gaming session all the way up to running multi-million dollar sites, Netgear has been with me all along.
The only negative experience I've had with them was a single network card (gigE) didn't work with World Of Warcraft. Of course, neither did five other brands, so its hardly their fault. (Intel was the only one I could get working finally).
Different people have different experiences even with the same equipment. Mechanical parts aren't universally the same quality.. one power surge, one bad manufacturing error, and my paradise is your hell.
Personally, I love Netgear equipment. Sorry to hear about your difficulties with it.
The only negative experience I've had with them was a single network card (gigE) didn't work with World Of Warcraft. Of course, neither did five other brands, so its hardly their fault. (Intel was the only one I could get working finally).
Different people have different experiences even with the same equipment. Mechanical parts aren't universally the same quality.. one power surge, one bad manufacturing error, and my paradise is your hell.
Personally, I love Netgear equipment. Sorry to hear about your difficulties with it.
You know, this damn thing changed all my 192.x.x.x addresses to 10.x.x.x addresses 3 times. So I said, fine, that's what you want to use....
I changed all the IP's on my computers to 10.x.x.x IP's. An hour later this router changes them back to 192.x.x.x addresses.
It's seriously weird, and way not cool because I have a lot of things to do and don't have time to reconfigure my entire network and firewall rules 4 times a day,
Anyway, this is model WGT624v3
I changed all the IP's on my computers to 10.x.x.x IP's. An hour later this router changes them back to 192.x.x.x addresses.
It's seriously weird, and way not cool because I have a lot of things to do and don't have time to reconfigure my entire network and firewall rules 4 times a day,
Anyway, this is model WGT624v3