Bloody Router And Laptops And Other Thing....GARGH - Saxperience

-Alex- · 7th June 2009, 22:38

Just spent the last 4 hours reinstalling windows to find out my internet connection was actually the routers fault, so now I'm using my neighbours because I needed my saxp fix...jeeez I'm annoyed that my router has broke.

chinkostu · 7th June 2009, 22:51

ok?

tried rebooting it? sure its not an ISP problem?

-Alex- · 7th June 2009, 22:53

Sorry had to vent haha
Numerous times, nah called them they said they weren't doing any maintinence today.

Noddy · 7th June 2009, 22:56

ISP? router make/model?

chinkostu · 7th June 2009, 22:56

Fair do's

did the router just pack in? had one that did that to me, although it was on 24/7 for about 2 years solid!

-Alex- · 7th June 2009, 22:58

ISP: British Telecom
Make: Netgear
Model: DG834G
Yeah just packed in, mine has been on 24/7 for the last two years too

chinkostu · 7th June 2009, 23:02

Dear me, i have that router now!

not even anything like the power supplies given up or anything? hard reset? flash it?

i dunno, i guess im obsessed with trying to fix anything before i give up the ghost!

Noddy · 7th June 2009, 23:05

does the router power on?

if it does can you access it at all (default IP usually is 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1)

-Alex- · 7th June 2009, 23:05

Haha so do I, chances are I will buy the exact same one again, they are good routers. Mine has just had some stick over the years lol.
Power is fine
Hard reset and flash are still on the egenda for tommorow. Then a trip to PC World on payday, neighbours wireless will do for time being haha

Edit: Yeah full power, and I can still access control panel, It says it has an 8mbp downstream. Yet dial up is faster

chinkostu · 7th June 2009, 23:07

haha fair do's!

yea, bought mine on a whim as i had a phone with WiFi, so bit the bullet and got a wirelesss one. everythings still on ethernet though, haha!

only problem i've ever had is the signal will just vanish now and again!

Toms112 · 7th June 2009, 23:10

If ya think about it routers take a beating if I was awake for two years i think id give up too lol. My neighbours are more then happy for me to use theres, after about a few months of using there faster broadband I thought it was best to tell them and they were weirdly cool about it, he just said 'I hardly use the bloody thing too much boob for my liking'. Not quite sure if he was calling it shit or he was relating to the amount of porn on the net ill never find out I hope

mik · 7th June 2009, 23:10

routers . laptops . nightmare~~ i'm lucky my mate has a computer shop.. he is like a magic man .. fix anything

-Alex- · 7th June 2009, 23:12

First problem I had is gaming through it (COD4 </3), suddenly it died so after numerous amounts of swearing I blamed BT and they upgraded my broadband for free, nice of them haha. Didn't solve it but I wasn't too bothered, so I just used it for internet and that has now died...typical haha.

chinkostu · 7th June 2009, 23:13

so you can still access the routers control panel?

can't hurt to flash it, or even see if you can borrow a router?

-Alex- · 7th June 2009, 23:14

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Originally Posted by Toms112

If ya think about it routers take a beating if I was awake for two years i think id give up too lol. My neighbours are more then happy for me to use theres, after about a few months of using there faster broadband I thought it was best to tell them and they were weirdly cool about it, he just said 'I hardly use the bloody thing too much boob for my liking'. Not quite sure if he was calling it shit or he was relating to the amount of porn on the net ill never find out I hope

Haha I don't even know which neighbours this is, so I will keep shtum

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Originally Posted by mik

routers . laptops . nightmare~~ i'm lucky my mate has a computer shop.. he is like a magic man .. fix anything

Haha I'm not bad with computers bit of a geek really, but wireless baffles me so much.

Noddy · 7th June 2009, 23:14

For cabled environments i've always used netgear switches and for wireless solutions its always been cisco/linkys for wireless and AP's. Tie the two together and i've never had any problems

chinkostu · 7th June 2009, 23:19

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Originally Posted by Noddy

For cabled environments i've always used netgear switches and for wireless solutions its always been cisco/linkys for wireless and AP's. Tie the two together and i've never had any problems

can't honestly go wrong with cisco for anything tbh!

i've got an asus switch (aquired as my old router had only one ethernet port and my hub was, in a word, shit) and a netgear router. the switch is pretty much redundant, just helps to weedle out who's using all the bandwidth!

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Originally Posted by -Alex-

Haha I'm not bad with computers bit of a geek really, but wireless baffles me so much.

i'm reasonably alright, wireless used to be awful, but recently advances in operating systems and simpler ways of setting the damn things up have helped!

-Alex- · 7th June 2009, 23:23

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Originally Posted by chinkostu

so you can still access the routers control panel?

can't hurt to flash it, or even see if you can borrow a router?

Well a hard reset did the trick, not great but working atleast, still not fast enough for msn

RichM · 7th June 2009, 23:24

I've got the same router as you, think theres something wrong with it aswell as its coming up as 8mbps and is slow as fuck, takes ages to load pages and sometimes even says I'm not connected. Tried everything aswell.

chinkostu · 7th June 2009, 23:25

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Originally Posted by RichM

I've got the same router as you, think theres something wrong with it aswell as its coming up as 8mbps and is slow as fuck, takes ages to load pages and sometimes even says I'm not connected. Tried everything aswell.

unplug the fucker from the wall and plug it back in after say, 30 seconds

solves every problem