NETGEAR routers are crap

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Ollie Saunders
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Post by Ollie Saunders »

An hour later this router changes them back to 192.x.x.x addresses.
Well I don't know what you set on the machines but if you give them static IPs they shouldn't be able to do that. Are these 98 or ME machines by any chance?
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The Phoenix wrote:From a 4-port switch that handled my first ethernet (not 10base-T!) gaming session
I still have a netgear 4-port (wow) dual speed hub that outlived two other switches :) I still use it.
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astions wrote: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
DHCP or static addressing?
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AKA Panama Jack wrote:You might want to check the netgear site for new firmware.
The firmware release notes at http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/WGT624v3.asp contain things like
Bug Fixes

1. Changing LAN IP from default settings to 10.0.0.1/255.0.0.0 used to cause router malfunction.
Definitely worth a try.
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The Phoenix wrote:DHCP or static addressing?
DHCP is disabled. The router is set to reserve IP's based on MAC addresses, and all the computers are set to static IP's as well. I have already installed the latest firmware version. I'll give it another go this weekend maybe. Maybe I'll take screen shots of everything to show exactly what this thing is doing.
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After you install the latest firmware make sure you use a pin to press the modem reset switch in the back. This will clear out ALL presets and return the modem to factory defaults. The previous owner may have had some weird stuff entered. You should always do a hardware reset after installing new firmware.
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Post by Benjamin »

I did. And then I power cycled it. Because it told me to.
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By day I'm a network engineer (by night a crazy rebel). I know first hand that netgears screw up the network and make my job difficult. Constant failures, but apparent and not. I've seen them just decide to stop routing packets out but route back in, all kinds of weird stuff. the little 4 port switches too. Very inconsistent, and their 'tech support' is a joke. The linksys models are fairly better, at home I have a Wireless G Linksys and i enjoy it. One thing I hope to see out of Linksys is that they are taken under Cisco's wing of support. Cisco's TAC is anything but good, but its significantly better than what the small network vendors offer.

A friend of mine has a Belkin wireless G router and it hasn't failed yet, she's had it at least two years. A client my company has has a number of managed switches in their network and a couple of them are Netgear GS716T. Whatever the netgears are trying to do, they can't be managed over the network in normal condition. The firewalls would cut them off as security threats, whenever someone would try to access it over the web. I had to modify the firewall rules to ignore any access to and from those things. However that thing was designed is beyond me. I've never seen ANY benign web traffic trigger the firewall rules like that.
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I think I would order the SOHO networking equipment best to worst:
Linksys, Belkin, Hawking, others [geeksquad, Dynex], netgear and DLINK.


Back to the linksys rant, Cisco through Linksys has recently put out a highly managed SOHO switch, I think this one, http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/defaul ... DC=1014328 - though I'm not sure. Whatever it is i really like it, it's stable and fancy and even does QoS for a VoIP network.
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I went and bought a Linksys. That should solve the problem. The price on the shelf said it was $89.00 but they only charged me $69. So that's a good thing too.
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Everah wrote:<off-topic>
@nykoelle: Is that Soda Papinsky in your av?
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It is! : goes and grabs his NES : Be back in a few days everyone! :-D
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Everah wrote:<off-topic>
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haha yes. Big fan. I'm bringin it back :D
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