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Netgear wireless router networking Q & A

Question: I recently set up a Netgear wireless router, in which I have a desktop hardwired and a laptop with a wireless card. When turning on either machine, the network works fine on either. After being left on for some time, and then resumed, the internet doesn't work on either. I am still getting a good to excellent signal on both machines when this is happening, but when I open a browser it cannot find the page. It happens all the time with IE, and although it doesn't happen with firefox all the time, it does happens with firefox also. If I restart the machine it works fine.

Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong? Thanks-

Answers:

You can have an excellent signal, but there can still be "limited or no connectivity". I never fully understood this problem, but some thing that have helped me during the sporadic occurances of LoNC, would be to simply go to wireless settings in your router and just save them. I'm not sure what netgear uses as their gateway IP though.

Are the machines going into a sleep mode or hibernation? If thats the case, its common, just go to Control Panel - Power Options and choose presentation on the desktop. On the laptop set everything on "When plugged in" to "never".

Signal interference, maybe? I have a Direct TV dish on the house, and no matter where I tried to hook up a wireless router it wouldn't work. I finally had to put both computers in the same room and use an Ethernet cord to attach both. Hope that helps.

Had the same problem settings up a friends netgear and it would do that until I updated the firmware.

Defiantely a problem with the router. There should be nothing that would interfere with a computer that is wired directly to the router even coming out of any type of sleep or hybernation mode. I would go the routers website and see if there are any firmware updates and if that doesnt fix it and you recently got it i would take it back to the store and exchange it.

Signal Interference will not come from DirecTV. We're talking a 2.4GHz signal, not a satellite feed being directed to a dish.

Is it using WIndows Zero Config or does the Netgear have an interface for setting up the WLAN? The Windows Zero Config is garbage and should be disabled if the netgear has a software option.

The router may not have the optimal configuration. With my Linksys router every few days I have to reboot it by pulling out and plugging the power cord. I figure that I have to optimized my firmware configuration, but I am not going to bother doing that. I don't want to mess up and have a dead router.

Have had similar problems from time to time and solve by unplugging the router and replugging it. Have never got a satisfactory explanation as to why it occurs or how it can be prevented, but rebooting has worked everytime so far.

Posted by James Trotta at October 27, 2006 7:28 AM