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reply to mtrimmer

Re: WGR614 does not renew DHCP lease and loses WAN

I am a moron and posted this in the wrong wgr614 post, duh. Geez the wgr 614's are really taking a dive. anyway here is my post:

Also having this problem. I have a wgr614 v3 and was using it with earthlink dsl. It would drop the connection almost everyday so I would unplug it and the plug it back in. Then one day nothing worked so I just took the netgear off the line and hooked the computer (mac g5) back to the dsl modem box and of course everything works again.

This was my husbands computer and I was using it to be wireless on my laptop. He was not happy with these daily drops so I have now ordered dsl extreme for my phone line and hoping my netgear will work better, but am not hopeful.

very frustrating.

Try to put this router away from DSL modem, which may help to get rid of this issue.

I had issues of droped WAN connection from time to time and slow internet connection when switching to netgear WGR614 v5. I called Netgear customer support and ping point the issue of my RCA cable modem which is known to generate too much interference and unfortunately, netgear is not immune to that (my old LinkSys router seems to works fine for two years.) I just pulled NetGear WGR614, two feet away from the Cable modem, everything works perfectly.

It did frustrate me, anyhow, it is worth to call their customer support, try different support people though if did not find good answer.

Overall, I am satisfied with Netgear router and it does has much better configuration UI than what LinkSys offered.