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I own a Netgear WG624 v2 wireless router and a WG311T wireless adapter. These two pieces of hardware are shit! They seem to decide one day that they will start having problems and locking up your computer requiring multiple reboots. Netgear will not accept any blame for this even though countless people have problems with this router/ wireless adapter.
I just installed a hotfix that I had to dig for on their website. Talk about garbage tech support.
Another thing that sucks ass is that if you have more than one computer on the network and both computers use software that look at the same ports to run, you cannot assign these ports to both computers even when they are using separate IP's.

I plan on picking up a Linksys setup here shortly and smashing the Netgear and sending them back to them reverse charges.

I've never had trouble with their wired gear, but I've only used Linksys for the wireless routing. Wasn't it a Netgear piece that gave George fitssix months ago or so?

Get a Linksys. It´s Cisco´s discount brand, and we have never given us any problems. There are lots of models and one that let you assign portnumbers to services.

On the other hand we have had a defective Netgear switch, the small blue boxes you use to connect 5 machines to the net, not even an active one, make our entire network go down, all 3500 machines ! Caused a storm of network packets that blocked everything. The network guys still can´t figure out how one little box can do all that damage.

One of my friends has the same gear and guess what- the exact same problem. Its only a problem on his PC though. Works fine with his mac.

Necrovore: What version of windoze do you run ?

XP Pro SP2. Seems that this hotfix I installed has worked some but its still tentative on how stable my connectivity is. If I have too many things open at once, it has a tendency to hang causing the same problems all over again. At least I can stay on with no problems for more than 10 minutes at a shot. Hope to upgrade to a new computer shortly. As for the network stuff I plan on going linksys as soon as I can.