I usually have at least one employee a month telling me they can't get
their new wireless router to work and if I have any advice.  First
question is if it's a Netgear.  So far I'm batting 1000.  Tell them to
take it back and get a linksys/cisco branded one.

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From: Cameron [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Wireless Routers


Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to
factory specs?


On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich <
[email protected]> wrote:


        This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site
(side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing
wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to
get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with
it for over  2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys
wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant
success. 

        Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the
wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not
even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to
go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys.

        Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a
new wireless router. J

         

          

         

         

        
         

        

        


 

 


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