Netgear wireless router PC World offer (merged)

john-306

ucjtckc wrote:

It just so happens that I'm returning mine to BT whom I bought it from last year. I've only just started using the wireless side of it so it's taken me this long to find out that the wireless side this thing is very poor indeed. In general it's very unlikely you'll get 108MB transfer mode and it has a habit of dropping connections.

Have a look at Netgear's own support forum - there are 36 pages of people complaining about dropped connections....

http://forum1.netgear.com/support/viewtopic.php?t=2361

Yep saw that at the weekend, obviously something wrong somwhere, although that "joe" poster took up half of the first page posts...lol
maybe there were only about 10 posters in the whole 36 pages!!!

Best of luck taking it back mate, when you said you'd bought it last year do you mean Dec or much earlier in the year?

ucjtckc

john-306 wrote:

Yep saw that at the weekend, obviously something wrong somwhere, although that "joe" poster took up half of the first page posts...lol
maybe there were only about 10 posters in the whole 36 pages!!!

Best of luck taking it back mate, when you said you'd bought it last year do you mean Dec or much earlier in the year?

March 05.... Don't think BT will give me a refund as I've had it so long so they'll probably exchange it for another model....

RDA

I used to have one of these and had to return it to Netgear for replacement 3 times. It regularly lost the connnection and would not recover even if configured to do so.

Several colleagues have experienced the same problem and returned them for the same reason and would frankly not touch Netgear kit again. I appreciate that others have experienced no problems, but they may have a reliable ADSL service which doesn't suffer from dropouts.

I eventually opted for a Zyxel Prestige 661HW which has proved fautless and offers several more features than the Netgear DG834GT.

AndyC111

After reading this site for the last 6 months (and what a site it is!) I decided it was about time I offered something back.

On the PC world web site they currently have listed a NETGEAR DG834GUK 54MBPS WIRELESS ADSL MODEM FIREWALL ROUTER for £59.98 (product code 904351), select this and reserve for store collection.

When you go to collect it they actually give you a NETGEAR - 54MBPS WIRELESS ADSL ROUTER & 54MBPS USB ADAPTOR (product code 257700) which retails at £89.97....so a saving of £30.

I know this because I purchased one this morning for the Northampton branch and the guy told me that the web site is trying to sell a product that doesn't exist, so they are having to sell this package instead at the same price.

executiverocker

yeah i think that happened to me a few weeks back, i reserved the 834GT and when i collected they said i can get it with the adapter for the same price, im not complaining like:P lol