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Last post Author Topic: Help! Any NetGear experts out there?  (Read 23352 times)

steeladept

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Re: Help! Any NetGear experts out there?
« Reply #25 on: June 04, 2008, 12:25 AM »
Yeah, I have seen that before.  That was what prompted the "borrowed" section of my suggestion.

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Re: Help! Any NetGear experts out there?
« Reply #26 on: July 01, 2008, 10:59 PM »
Netgear have released a firmware update that has among others fixed: "Connectivity issues with ISPs using DHCP (e.g. Comcast)". these Comcast users must be thanked for *pushing* Netgear to release the fix. the update seems to have solved my problem - no disruption after two days of usage. :Thmbsup:

so if anyone who has this problem and stumbled onto this thread, you know what to do. 8)

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http://kbserver.netg...se_notes/d103320.asp


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Re: Help! Any NetGear experts out there?
« Reply #27 on: July 02, 2008, 05:59 AM »
Interesting, but DHCP errors are all-or-none, and your hiccup was protocol specific. I can't help but wonder if this is a Comcast cover story since they got smacked by the FCC for Bandwidth-Throttling which choke-ed out certain protocols a while back.

But hay, long as you got it fixed ... who cares. :)

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Re: Help! Any NetGear experts out there?
« Reply #28 on: July 02, 2008, 06:06 AM »
But hay, long as you got it fixed ... who cares.

yeah, me too. just glad to be able to join in the chat rooms without any problems.. btw, who did FCC go after - Comcast or Netgear?

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Re: Help! Any NetGear experts out there?
« Reply #29 on: July 02, 2008, 11:46 PM »
(Cable) broadband companies in general, but Comcast specifically was Traffic-Shaping people offline based on ports & protocols that they felt were (*Snicker*) "Optional"...