Re: Net Gear, Wiring ideas

[Eddie]

I've been using an RP614 for over a year with my iMac G4 1Ghz and have 
had a few problems, but all were solved with firmware updates from 
either my DSl modem supplier or for the RP614 from NetGear. One issue I 
had before I switched to the Mac was on a PC. It refused to pull up 
www.palm.com. I upgraded the RP614 firmware after waiting a few weeks 
for the upgrade to become available and it went away. The next issue I 
had I would lose the ability to access the secured side of ebay and 
eventually loss of all web access. I could do everything fine when I 
connected a PC directly to the DSL modem. The problem was caused by an 
upgrade that my ISP performed (BellSouth) recently on their system. I 
upgraded the RP614 firmware to a new version that was supposed to 
address Bellsouth issues and it did not cure it. I next upgraded the 
firmware on my DSl modem and that did the trick.

I don't want to paint a bleak picture of the RP614, these issues were 
very far apart and were actually pretty quickly fixed by both the 
BellSouth and NetGear. I have had no other issues with the router. My 
feeling about NetGear is that they are very responsive to customer 
reported issues and produce a good product.

On Feb 10, 2004, at 9:54 PM, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote:

Anyone used a Netgear Model RP 614. I am finally going to get DSL as 
the price has come down and the speed has finally gone up.

I have an airport Graphite base station, regular airport cards to a 
couple of pismos running 10.3 and looking at a card bus for a G3 1400 
PowerBook OS 9.1 a laser writer 360 and a HP 2410 printer/fax and my 
trusty G3 6100  256 megs of ram that just keeps running and running. 
It would be nice to wire this all together. The 3 powerbooks should be 
wireless, but the 1400 may need a direct ethernet connection.

	Does Net Gear play nice with Macs? The local Telco wants $75.00 for 
the Net Gear RP 614 with 4 ports, ya I know a little high but figure I 
will get hit with at least 15 to 20 bucks shipping. Just want to know 
it will work and plug and play for the mac

	 I am in Alaska and they love to stick the shipping to us even though 
these things just flew through Anchorage a week or 2 ago.

	Any thoughts on Net Gear,  and any ideas on networking this all 
together.

	Also will I need a firewall, I have read the Netgear comes with some 
but is it enough? The telco does not provide a firewall, which sounds 
a little strange, but the lady on the phone was reading from a page 
and not up on her facts any better then I am
Thanks
Geoff

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