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Netgear DGN 2000 Woes
09-05-2011 10:24 PM
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The problem Is this, The router works fine but If I lose sync with my exchange It re-syncs back up but when I go to my PC I cant access the net. Yellow exclamation mark on my connection bottom right, Windows 7, Yet I can gain access to the router via my browser and It says every thing's hooked up fine, All the light are on green, Says I am connected.Only a complete reboot gets me back on-line correctly again.Nothing wrong with the PC or my Ethernet as only this router does this, Is It something I can fix or am I just going to have to bin It?
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09-05-2011 10:38 PM
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NOT !
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09-05-2011 11:19 PM
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10-05-2011 8:23 AM
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What happens if you disable the network adaptor then re-enable it rather than restarting the computer?
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10-05-2011 3:25 PM
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10-05-2011 3:41 PM
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You may find that rebooting the PC will fix it - but probably not.
Rebooting the router will generally fix it.
When this happens, none of my Linux PC's are affected - ever.
Indeed, I might use a Linux PC to connect to the wireless modem/router to perform a controlled reboot of the router.
Sometimes, I just tell the affected person to use Linux.
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Netgear DGN 2000 Woes
10-05-2011 4:31 PM
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Didn't we fix this issue months ago by setting the XP machine to be a static TCP/IP address and to manually configure the DNS settings in the wireless network properties ?
My network behaves in exactly the same way !
An XP laptop used to have networking issues when the settings were taken from the router, which could only be fixed with a router reboot - as a laptop restart didn't work !.
That problem was resolved by manually setting the DNS values in XP.
As you say while it looked like a router problem, all the other machines (Linux - Ubuntu) just carried on working.
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10-05-2011 4:58 PM
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10-05-2011 5:18 PM
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Quote from: A ....Sometimes, I just tell the affected person to use Linux.
Only sometimes?!?
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10-05-2011 5:45 PM
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But if you are having the same problem that Fox and I had, then the problem is not with the router (as Linux still worked), it is not with the wireless connection (in our case), it looks most likely to be an oddity in Windows networking or security (for whatever reason) and could quite possibly affect all or any network connection method.
So try using both a static TCP/IP address AND manually set DNS values in the wired connection properties, and see whether it makes any improvement, it doesn't cost anything and it can't do any harm !
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10-05-2011 6:14 PM
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10-05-2011 6:20 PM
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Quote from: purleigh [quote=A Fox is Evil]Sometimes I cannot get wireless access to a router with a knackered old Windows XP laptop.
Didn't we fix this issue months ago by setting the XP machine to be a static TCP/IP address and to manually configure the DNS settings in the wireless network properties ?
My network behaves in exactly the same way !
An XP laptop used to have networking issues when the settings were taken from the router, which could only be fixed with a router reboot - as a laptop restart didn't work !.
That problem was resolved by manually setting the DNS values in XP.
As you say while it looked like a router problem, all the other machines (Linux - Ubuntu) just carried on working.
We/you did "fix" it.
It did appear to stay fixed - for a while.
But it's back to it's old ways and quite honestly I can't be bothered with it.
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Netgear DGN 2000 Woes
10-05-2011 6:48 PM
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even though all the other PCs in the house now run quicker and more reliably on Ubuntu than they ever did when they were running Windows !
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10-05-2011 11:23 PM
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Quote from: purleigh But if you are having the same problem that Fox and I had, then the problem is not with the router (as Linux still worked), it is not with the wireless connection (in our case)
I have the inverse problem with my Netgear DG834PN. Sometimes the wired connection, which is to my Windows 7 computer, will fail and cannot be re-established without restarting the router. But wireless connections to the router and the internet connection still work fine. In my case this must be a router problem (at least in part) which I ascribe to old age. I think the point is you just have to mess around a bit, try different permutations and see if anything works. If you cannot find anything you can do to the computer to overcome the problem then the cause of the problem is likely to be the router.
Re: Netgear DGN 2000 Woes
11-05-2011 1:09 AM
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