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 sheldon@sheldon.notadomain wrote:

>And the
>outages either last a couple minutes, max, or if prolonged, they
>immediately vanish when I unplug my router, wait a couple minutes,
>then plug it back in.

Hum, I just thought that was how you played COD4. Ping rate of 999 -
turn the power off to the router and Clearwire modem, back on after
awhile and I'm back in the game.

I couldn't tell you, purchase one and if it acts the same take it
back.
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sheldon@sheldon.notadomain wrote:

> Over the past few weeks, I've had a lot of unexplained outages for my
> home internet connection.  It's not been my ISP (at least Time Warner
> always claims there's no outage in my area when I call).  And the
> outages either last a couple minutes, max, or if prolonged, they
> immediately vanish when I unplug my router, wait a couple minutes,
> then plug it back in.
> 
> The router is a Netgear MR814, more than five years old.  I have a

Wait ... I have a MR814V3 here sitting somewhere in the dark, which did the
same, first about once a day, then every other hour before I swapped it.
Now, since I don't actually need wireless, I reanimated the older V2 model
where wireless already has died - but at least that one does not (or rarely
at least) drop out.

Why you're lucky that netgear router even lasted 5 days! Netgear = Shit

sheldon@sheldon.notadomain wrote:

> Over the past few weeks, I've had a lot of unexplained outages for my
> home internet connection.  It's not been my ISP (at least Time Warner
> always claims there's no outage in my area when I call).  And the
> outages either last a couple minutes, max, or if prolonged, they
> immediately vanish when I unplug my router, wait a couple minutes,
> then plug it back in.
>
> The router is a Netgear MR814, more than five years old.  I have a
> pretty decent and recent XP machine hardwired into it from the modem,
> and it supports, through a wireless connection, three other computers
> in our house.  The firmware for the router is the most current
> version, although that is several years old.
>
> I know nothing lasts forever, but it really looks like my internet
> outages are traceable to the router (I've had Time Warner out to check
> the modem and it's fine).  What confuses me is that I'd think that if
> the router were to go bad, it would just die and not work, ever,
> period.  What I have is 98%+ uptime, always fixable by recycling the
> router.  Can routers die like this?
>
> If I need to replace the router, what's a good recommendation?  I
> don't need anything fancy.  I have my eyes on a Netgear WGR614,
> although that too is a pretty old model.

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