I think I'lll give NetGear a miss for a while.

Post #273,205 by static 11/13/06 9:24:06 PM Reply	I think I'lll give NetGear a miss for a while. My church has a 16-port version of your failed one and it's been problematic since they bought it. Maybe it is oveheating; I hadn't thought of that. As for other adventures - I bought a wireless print server that still has some pretty serious bugs in the firmware. It's DHCP client wouldn't stay switched off, for instance. And I have a PCI wireless card that comes with a connection utility that likes to hang Windows 2000 :-/. What's worse is that I have a Access Point and PCMCIA card both from NetGear that are quite a bit older and work very well. I guess they must have been cutting corners on quality control since. Wade. "Don't give up!"
Post #273,218 by Andrew Grygus 11/13/06 10:43:08 PM Reply	I would. Practically every time I see NetGear equipment I have to replace it due to weird problems. At one client someone installed a new 5-port NetGear switch in one department and the whole network went unstable. One of my larger clients tried a different consultant ("more oriented to a growing company"). When they called me back in to fix the mess I found the 3Com 24-port switch and Linksys 8-port replaced by a 48-port NetGear managed switch. Constant network problems. I put my old 3Com back in and added a second 3Com for 48 ports and all the problems went away. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #273,299 by n3jja 11/14/06 6:15:04 PM Reply	Yet I have a 16-port NG and I don't see any issues.
Post #273,302 by Andrew Grygus 11/14/06 7:13:05 PM Reply	Hey, some of 'em have to work some of the time :) Of course they don't call me in to see the ones that work. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #273,308 by static 11/14/06 8:59:06 PM Reply	But 3 of the last 5 NG items I've seen do have issues. That's not a good record. Wade. "Don't give up!"

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