On Feb 9, 2008 8:42 PM, phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> The problem is somewhere in the router. Everything works fine when I go
> directly from the cable modem to the computer, so I think I'm just going
> to get a new router.
>
> My current router is a NETGEAR RP614 v3. It has to be 4 or 5 years old.
> I have always needed to go in and do portforwarding for things like
> bittorrent and sometimes POP and SMTP. (I never have to do that with the
> WinXP computer.)
I find that hard to believe, since the router doesn't know what kind
of operating system you are running. Resetting the DHCP connection is
an equally trivial operation on both Windows and Linux. But the exact
thing you have to do is different.
> Now things seem to have gotten worse. When I try to
> get in to the router it will refuse the connection 99% of the time.
When you say "I try to get in to the router" just exactly what are you
doing? And what are the symptoms of "it refuses the connection"?
> I downloaded the latest update from NETGEAR and it did not help at all.
> Sounds like time for a new router.
RP614v4 is the current model. I hope that you downloaded the firmware
for the RP614v3 that you have and not for any other model.
> So now the question becomes, does anyone have a recommendation for a
> router that works well with linux? This current router is wired--not
> wireless. My house is wired and I'm fine with a wired router, but I am
> not totally opposed to looking at wireless.
I don't think there have been any major changes in wired routers for
the past few years. All the new-model stuff seems to be adding higher
and higher speed wireless.
> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 16:41 -0800, Neil Schneider wrote:
> > phil wrote:
> > > Is there a way to re-set-up the internet connection? When you install a
> > > new distro part of the installation process involves "setting up" the
> > > connection through DHCP. I'm having problems only on my linux computer
> > > so the router and cable modem seem to work. I don't want to do a
> > > re-install unless I have to. I'm running Debian 4.0r2 etch.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > To get better help, please give us more information.
> >
> > What is your problem?
> >
> > What are the symptoms of your problem?
> >
> > What have you read about your problem?
> >
> > What have you done to try to solve your problem?
> >
> > After you answer those questions, we might be able to give you a more
> > informative response.
> >
carl
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