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Netgear DG834GT - Firmware
« on: October 08, 2008, 12:30:59 PM »

I have a GT , which is the best fw to use for it?
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Re: Netgear DG834GT - Firmware
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2008, 04:58:01 PM »

I've tried all 3 on my GT and theres not much difference on my own line when it comes to stability.  Some swear by UberGT and others prefer DGTeams'

Some of them have a few tweaks available via the web interface rather than having to fire up DMT or adjust it via the CLI.  After trying the different ones available, I actually went back to standard Netgear firware and was happy to do any tweaking if I wanted via DMTtool.

I have got a page that I've not  finished or uploaded - from when I tried the different versions here.  There wasnt any difference in the line stats on my own line.. but a summary of the pros and cons from when we tried them - bear in mind these were the rough notes made at the time.

Differences:

DGTeam:

PROS

Options to show stuff in Diagnostics:
  Determine TCP MTU size to a remote host.
  Do BERT test
  ADSL status information (adslctl --show)
  Firewall status
  Conntracks monitor (like netstat I think)
  Running processes (point?)

NO-IP dynamic DNS support

TCP options - change TCP parameters:
  Timestamps (on by default)
  TCP fast recycle of Time-Wait-2 state tcp connections (erm.. yeah, its off by default anyway!!)
  reconnecting time: 1200
  reconnecting probes: 3
  TCP conntrack timeout: 30sec  (conntrack = connection i think)
  UDP conntrack timeout: 30sec
  UDP streaming (VOIP) timeout: 600sec
  ICMP conntrack timeout: 10sec
  Max conntrack: 2048

change single username and password

Enable telnet and from external host

SPI Firewall page - which allowed finer control over the DOS protection system.


CONS

Changing advanced ADSL settings (SNR, connection mode) and applying DOESN'T do a resync
very annoying. No built in way to resync via web interface either. Only reboot. Which is a bit poo.



UberGT:

PROS


Changing ADSL settings DOES cause a resync. Cool

Wake On Lan tool

FreeDG optimizations checkbox. Think they're for VOIP - possibly some outgoing QOS?

CONS

None of the advanced diags from DGTeam

No way to change router username, only password

No external telnet option... BUT it tells you username = root!

No way to change the finer SPI firewall options.
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