<OT> Netgear ethernet switch froze

[burns]

On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 09:41, Joel Hammer wrote:
> This morning my internal network was down. The problem was the netgear
> switch box. It was accepting signals but not transferring them to
> recipients.  Unplugging it and plugging it back in solved the problem.

Have you updated the firmware in your Netgear lately? I have a RP614
router. I upgraded the firmware to the *correct* latest version and
experienced all kinds of problems... truncated transactions, etc. I
contacted Netgear in California (forget the tech support line - it's
useless) and spoke to one of their product engineers. He agreed that the
release seemed flaky. I zeroed the router back to the default firmware
version and it's been fine ever since.

Other than that, I have been very pleased with it and you certainly
can't beat the price.
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burns