What wireless router ?

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kevsan wrote: »

Turning off the router does not cause the settings to be lost, they're stored in EEPROM in the router. However, note that if you turn off the router and leave machine on, you may have IP conflicts when you turn the router back on. I also run two wireless routers (both netgear) - due to dead zones around the house, and have never had any problems.

I don't use Wireless Routers anymore, but it's been common in my experience and on other boards that a power failure can either force it to lose the settings or require a reset to factory default in order to be functional again. Quality may have improved over the years though.

neiljc_2

I m glad that in my absence I have been labelled as foolish, perhaps as always its best to know all the exact circumstances.

I have tried on a number of occasions to get the netgear to work, it was a present fron the father in law as he was getting a replacement from his new ISP and I didnt have the original documentation to query problems with netgear.

as for more money than sense Im not paying other halfs work is!

It is difficult you know with a full time job and two small children to do everything that needs done,sometimes you just have to do what would be quickest especially if someone else is paying, more than that other halfs IT dept which is massive will ensure it works for her.

the problem with the netgear is that it it recognised the ISP connection type as PPPoA instead of PPPoE which it is.

it worked the first time and then stopped working and whenever I tried re installing it it defaulted to PPPoA.

2Loose

I think your other half's IT dept should have the final say on which device you use as they will have to support it, as you say. I know my department will only support stuff they know about and can vouch for, even though we all want the newest and greatest toys, we will only give non-IT staff things we know and trust (ie. not cutting edge). I am guessing they will operate in the same way.

espresso

neiljc wrote: »

I m glad that in my absence I have been labelled as foolish, perhaps as always its best to know all the exact circumstances.

Well if as they say, the cap fits! Perhaps you should have given more information in your original post.

I have tried on a number of occasions to get the netgear to work, it was a present fron the father in law as he was getting a replacement from his new ISP and I didnt have the original documentation to query problems with netgear.

So you didn't think to download the documentation from the Netgear support website then?

as for more money than sense Im not paying other halfs work is!

Yes that's obvious based on your incorrect assumption "I assume that we want an wireless N router as they appear to be top of the range at the moment?"

It is difficult you know with a full time job and two small children to do everything that needs done,sometimes you just have to do what would be quickest especially if someone else is paying, more than that other halfs IT dept which is massive will ensure it works for her.

So let them sort it out then as you obviously can't.

the problem with the netgear is that it it recognised the ISP connection type as PPPoA instead of PPPoE which it is.

The Netgear doesn't recognise the connection type, the user configures the router to suit the ISP's requirements.

it worked the first time and then stopped working and whenever I tried re installing it it defaulted to PPPoA.

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kevsan

anewhope wrote: »

I don't use Wireless Routers anymore, but it's been common in my experience and on other boards that a power failure can either force it to lose the settings or require a reset to factory default in order to be functional again. Quality may have improved over the years though.

Then you must have had a faulty one. that's different to what you imply in your previous post that all routers do this by default.

RJR22_2

Leopard wrote: »

If all of these apply to you, the device to ask for is a "Wireless N Gigabit Ethernet modem router" emphasising that it indeed be wireless N and that the Ethernet ports on it (for connecting Ethernet cables to it) are Gigabit Ethernet - not 10/100 Ethernet.

The Netgear version of this is the WNR854T. And it's a very good, award-winning piece of kit.

Be careful they don't try to fob you/her off with the similar-looking, non-Gigabit, DG834N model - wired connections between computers in your household will otherwise be limited to 100 Mb/sec speed instead of 1,000 Mb/sec Gigabit.

Just checked the Netgear website before buying, does the WNR854T definitely have a built in modem?

Leopard

No, it doesn't. Well not so far as I can see.

There seems to be a paragraph missing from what I wrote originally.

I used a word-processing application and the original text was:


"If all of these apply to you, the device to ask for is a "Wireless N Gigabit Ethernet modem router" emphasising that it indeed be wireless N and that the Ethernet ports on it (for connecting Ethernet cables to it) are Gigabit Ethernet - not 10/100 Ethernet.

And if your wife's employer is prepared to pay for it, I'd ask for a Draytek Vigor 2820. But I'm not sure what you're using as a modem now. If you're prepared to go on using that, just a Gigabit wireless N router would suffice.

The Netgear version of this is the WNR854T. And it's a very good, award-winning piece of kit.

Be careful they don't try to fob you/her off with the similar-looking, non-Gigabit, DG834N model - wired connections between computers in your household will otherwise be limited to 100 Mb/sec speed instead of 1,000 Mb/sec Gigabit."


For some reason that bit's not in it now. Whether it got lost in my pasting from the WP to the Reply window on the MSE page or whether it got deleted accidentally when I subsequently edited the thing for a typo, or whether it got edited out in some other way, I don't know but it's probably my fault somehow.

Anyway, apologies for any confusion. Here's a link to the Draytek and here's one to a review of it. Note that only one of its four LAN ports is Gigabit: but the OP only has one PC. He could add a Gigabit switch at a later date if he acquired more PCs.