NETGEAR routers are crap
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:41 pm
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.