Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, dave.
I too upgraded my Netgear DG834PN firmware to v1.03.36 a few weeks ago and
have had intermittent problems wirelessly connecting to it from an Intel
Mac
with OS 10.4.x, which I put down to updating the Mac OS rather than the
router, as other computers (old iMac G3, new Macbook, old PC WinXP) had no
connection problems.
Then my daughter re****ted not connecting to MSN Messenger from her Macbook
and I eventually found dave's post as a potential solution. I can confirm
that down-grading the router firmware to v1.03.35 cured both my daughter's
Messenger connection and my Intel Mac's wireless connection to the router
itself, which is now reliable.
Whoever is responsible at Netgear for the changes from v35 to v36 should
be
shot, or at least fired.
"dave" wrote:
> All,
>
> For those of you with a Netgear DG834PN, I've had this issue. I have
> checked with G5PPC+10.5.1&2, G5Intel+10.5.1&2, & G4 PPC+10.4.10). All
have
> the issue yet my XP machine experiences no issues.
>
> It occured after I upgraded the firmware. Even though the admin
interface
> says the ****ts are open on the firewall, for some reason the MAC is
blocked
> yet XP traffic p***** through.
>
> I have now reverted to an older firmware (V1.03.25) and all is back and
> working properly. The downgrade experience was fine and I haven't had
to
> reconfigure any settings although I did backup the config files
beforehand
> just in case.
>
> I went back to 1.03.25 because all versions subsequent to that claim to
have
> 'special settings' for IM, I had previously gone straight from the
version it
> came with to 1.30.36. Can't be sure the ones in between don't work but
can
> confirm that this version 1.03.25 does. All versions are downloadable
from
> the Netgear sup****t site.
>
> Hope this saves someone somewhere some time.
>
> Chrs,
> dave
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