Netgear Router Problem

valor

My Netgear Router has been acting up lately.

It is a 54MPS Wireless Router.

I connect to it via ethernet cable but other computers in the house [laptops] connect to it wirelessly.

My wired connection often does not work when I turn my computer on for the first time in the mornings and I have to retsrat the router or repair the connection to get it to work.

It also often stops working after hours of steady connection

THe wireless connection from my computer flat out does not work alot of the time - it picks up the network but refuses to connect for some reason

Anybody got any ideas?

Zynks

It sounds like something to do with IP settings. Are they all in the same range (for instance, 192.168.1.xxx)?

If you have the DHCP server setup on the router, make sure the PCs are looking for an IP address.

When you say "it picks up the network but refuses to connect for some reason", do you mean it does not associate or you don't have internet access (if in doubt, try to open the router's admin GUI with your web browser).

valor

I imagine it must be soemthing to do with IP settings. I have Irish Broadband so I had to input their IP settings into the router and im not too sure what im doing. Why would it be dropping for my laptop but not for the laptops?


Why do you mean make sure they are looking for an IP address? In TCP/IP protocol settings?

Foxwood

valor wrote:

My wired connection often does not work when I turn my computer on for the first time in the mornings and I have to retsrat the router or repair the connection to get it to work.

Can you reach the admin interface on the router before you reboot it? In other words, is the problem on the "inside" of the router, or on the "outside". If you can talk to the router, then the problem is that your IBB co9nnection has dropped, and rebooting your router is causing it to reconnect, but there's nothing actually wrong with the router. If you can't get any response from the router, then your router is broken, and you need to fix/replace it.

THe wireless connection from my computer flat out does not work alot of the time - it picks up the network but refuses to connect for some reason

Interference, buggy drivers, encryption settings (though that tends to be either/or, not hit and miss). Read the FAQ.

valor

WWIW Azurues givens me an error - Lost connection to service 'WANIPCONNCTION' ON UpNP device 192.168.1.1

Never got that error on NTL or Eircom

rogue-entity

By any chance does your router just reboot itself (the tick light comes on)? Because this happens me at random intervals and I have a NetGear WPN824 router. Sadly I have found no solution to my problem and believe it to be a firmware issue, sadly Netgear released a second version of my router and stopped producing firmware for my (first version) one ¬_¬.

valor

Its the router that stops responding as far as I can make out.
When the net stops working, when i Try to login to 192.168.1.1 [router] it doesnt respond.

Probably should just buy a new router?

Foxwood

valor wrote:

Its the router that stops responding as far as I can make out.
When the net stops working, when i Try to login to 192.168.1.1 [router] it doesnt respond.

Probably should just buy a new router?

It sounds like a router problem all right. (could be a power supply or heat problem). Check the Netgear website to see if there is a firmware update that might help. Given that it's sometimes dead in the morning, I presume that it doesn't come back of it's own accord if you leave it alone for a while? Are there lights on it indicating whether it's connected, and do they change when you disconnect an ethernet cable, without rebooting the router?