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[tonyappuk]

I recently bought a Sky locked DG834GT and have managed to install the standard Netgear firmware on it making it generally useable. Two hiccups I thought worth reporting.

As in the case of the Speedtouch router that I had to play with earlier the recommended technique of holding the reset button in until the two LEDs flash green to yellow alternately may not be enough time. Initially this didn't work for me and I extended the time to about 30secs after the LEDs start flashing. I also did a 30 sec hold in whilst the power was off too as recommended by someone else on this forum. Not sure of the benefit of this last but those actions seemed to make the router accessible by the Netgear software.

The other hiccup has been mentioned elsewhere on another forum I think that some NIC drivers confuse the Netgear software. On my main PC which has a motherboard with built in Ethernet it wouldn't progress to finding the MAC address. I used my old laptop with a pcmcia Ethernet adaptor and bobs yer uncle!

Tony

[jeffbb]

Hi

Well I have ordered a DG834G v4 (splashing out ) I will be setting up on my new PC . This machine is beginning to give me problems with shutting down and starting up.That's another story.So if you want you can close this post .
Thanks for everyone's contributions  .
I have just seen that there is new firmware available for DG834G xx. (more fun and games !!)
Regards Jeff

[roseway]

>> I have just seen that there is new firmware available for DG834G xx. (more fun and games !!)

The DGTeam firmware has gained a good reputation on the DG834GT. I use it myself, and I've just upgraded it to the latest version which looks to be very good. I can't speak for the DG834G version, but if I were using that router I would certainly give it a go.

[jeffbb]

Hi
Will do as soon as I get my router (might need some help )

[kitz]

>> On my main PC which has a motherboard with built in Ethernet it wouldn't progress to finding the MAC address.

Just out of curiosity, was that a Vista PC?

[tonyappuk]

No, Kitz, it was on XP Pro on a Winfast motherboard supplied by Novatech, type 6150M2MA with AMD 4600+ CPU and has a Phoenix bios.
Tony

[kitz]

Thanks - was just checking since a lot of people have problems upgrading from a Vista PC.

[jeffbb]

Hi
 I have received my DG834G v4 . I am in process of setting it up . Reading the set up procedure (from digidave ) step 10  "input details of your broadband account " .Looks as if there is some ip addresses required . Is there any way I can get that without having to go through the torture of Tiscali help line ??. .Aat the moment I am using st330 and I don't think this info is available as it is a dialup connection .
DestinationAddress= PVC:0/38

regards Jeff

[roseway]

All you should normally have to enter is your Tiscali username and password. The only IP addresses which I can think of are the DNS addresses, and you would normally leave these set to automatic, so you don't have to enter them manually. The other basic settings are usually detected automatically by the router.

[jeffbb]

Hi

Thanks for your reply its just that on the instruction page it seems to require some IP addresses? please see attached

regards Jeff

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[HPsauce]

Use automatic for IP and DNS unless you are on a fixed IP and your ISP has given you the numbers.

[jeffbb]

Ok thanks for that