mobbo
join:2005-04-13
Denton, TX | If only... If only the software/firmware that came on the 614 series wasn't a POS already. This stinks of their staff being LAZY! I've turned my WGR614 into a simple LAN switch because the wireless freezes randomly. There's a huge thread in Netgear's own support forums about it dating back several revisions ago to last year (maybe even 2006). I wanted to RMA mine, but they were going to charge ME for the shipping costs!
They also had a PCI desktop wireless card they sold in Best Buy stores complete with drivers that did NOT install if you had 3GB of RAM or more on Vista. Months went by with no patch, no fix, no upgrade, and not a peep from their support staff about it except "downgrade your system to 2GB".
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| said by mobbo:If only the software/firmware that came on the 614 series wasn't a POS already. This stinks of their staff being LAZY! I've turned my WGR614 into a simple LAN switch because the wireless freezes randomly. There's a huge thread in Netgear's own support forums about it dating back several revisions ago to last year (maybe even 2006). I wanted to RMA mine, but they were going to charge ME for the shipping costs! They also had a PCI desktop wireless card they sold in Best Buy stores complete with drivers that did NOT install if you had 3GB of RAM or more on Vista. Months went by with no patch, no fix, no upgrade, and not a peep from their support staff about it except "downgrade your system to 2GB". No thanks Netgear. If your router is a version 6 or higher, it will work work with all the third party firmware  |
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Hence the nine versions of this router. And yes, I do agree about the wireless part. What mine does is it quits working so I have to power cycle the router for the wireless radio to turn back on. I had the v5 but got rid of it and am using the v6 now. The damn thing doesn't have VPN, but yet they have it available in the later versions  .
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Thanks for your review. Two years ago when I needed a wireless router, I was down to 2 choices at the local Wal-mart: either this brand or Linksys. I'm glad I didn't goof and got something instead that works and has provided me with zero problems. |
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if it is hardware revisions, they may not be fixing so called 'problems' they may be redesigning to be easier to manufacture or to change hardware around to make it cheaper to make or upgrades in hardware functionality perhaps. look at the wrt54g. there is clearly a steady trend of decreasing ram and rom size as crap is taken out of an operating system that should have never been in there the first place (called linux). once they finally drop that POS for a real embedded operating system called VxWorks, RAM and ROM dropped even further. |
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Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | Yeah, right. Thats why most people with the Vxworks were scrambling for updated 3rd party firmware. It is also why they had to come out with the GL model. |
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 fuziwuziNot born yesterdayPremium
join:2005-07-01
Atlanta, GA | reply to qworster
said by qworster:If your router is a version 6 or higher, it will work work with all the third party firmware I have a WGR614v7 and was told that the third party firmware (like DD-WRT/Tomato) would NOT work, that the amount of flash memory was too small or something of the sort.
Do you have confirmation that all of the 614 models above v6 will work with the 3rd party software?
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Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | »wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Har···WGR614v7 |
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fuziwuziNot born yesterdayPremium
join:2005-07-01
Atlanta, GA | That information seems to confirm that the Netgear 614v7 does NOT support DD-WRT. |
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