Help Please.....netgear Dg834gt

mercman_3

Help me please somebody before i go insane

I have a Netgaer DG834GT router that has suddenly decided that it will disconnect itself at varying points!!!

If i didnt know better i swear that i was using an old dial-up connection?

Can anybody help me get it going correctly please


Cheers

Pete

intel

mercman wrote:

If i didnt know better i swear that i was using an old dial-up connection?
Pete

Check the connections then....

Tools, Internet Options, Connections Tab, and remove
any non in-use ISP connections.

Mancboy1_2

Have you tried the support site?

http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/DG834GT.asp

mercman_3

not checked anywhere as yet

was hoping to get an idiots guide from the good people on here

Always get confused when looking at support sites!!!

Cheers

Pete

p.s ALL connections seem ok.....got nothing showing in the connections tab

intel

mercman wrote:

was hoping to get an idiots guide from the good people on here

Thats bits easy enough... :rotfl:

sco0ter

Depending on what ISP you have these routers are really bad. If you Are AOL then you definately need to change the default MTU. I would recommend checking your max MTU with the router as I Had to change mine and Im on UKonline. Also another problem is your linespeed.As these are ADSL2 compliant then if you are on any 22MB service but you cant achieve full speed you may have to ask your ISP to cap your speed to the max speed the router reports. I had to have mine capped at 18mb to stop the disconnections.

Hope this was some help.

wolfman

Check which firmware you have. The 0.30 beta which can be found on some websites is much better than the 0.28 or 0.25.

Also, try disabling anything you don't need, such as as any logging etc...

Changing the MTU as mentioned is a good idea. I found 1430 to be great, but it may vary for you.

Also make sure you are running it upright, it can be quite a problematic router. You just need to find the right settings.

ohreally

Post your router stats, there may be a problem there.

mercman_3

sco0ter wrote:

Depending on what ISP you have these routers are really bad. If you Are AOL then you definately need to change the default MTU. I would recommend checking your max MTU with the router as I Had to change mine and Im on UKonline. Also another problem is your linespeed.As these are ADSL2 compliant then if you are on any 22MB service but you cant achieve full speed you may have to ask your ISP to cap your speed to the max speed the router reports. I had to have mine capped at 18mb to stop the disconnections.

Hope this was some help.

WHAT the hell is an MTU????

ISP is Eclipse Internet

how do you post the router settings??

Told you i needed an IDIOTS guide!!!

Cheers

Pete

wolfman

Ah Eclipse, nice. That's who I was recently with.

If you log into the router, look down the left hand column for all the sections.

Go to "Wan Setup" in "Advanced" and lower the MTU to around 1430.

Also have you upgraded to the 1.30 beta firmware? That'll make the biggest difference if you're still on the 1.28 firmware.

Go to "Router Status" in "Maintainence" and look for Firmware Version to see if you have the latest.

The 1.30 firmware isn't officially released yet. I got sent it by Netgear Support so it does work, and I've not had a problem. Check on the Netgear Forums and you'll see it's generally the firmware of choice. You can get it from here:

http://www.cifi.com/computing/files.html

mercman_3

Many Thanks for all the replies....

I think i have managed to upgrade the firmware and have changed the MTU to 1420

Is there anything else that i should be making sure is right to do with settings?

i am running XP home SP2....is there issues with firewalls and the like?


Cheers

Pete