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1. trail_rat - Member

   Need a new wireless router for my parents

   Must be reliable

   Currently have a piece of crap netgear orange gave them to replace the livebox they had that quit working after about 7 or 8 years of faithful service

   Orange deny any fault with the router ive changed settings and had it working for a couple of days before it goes pete tong , swapped it out with my router from my house and it worked fine and this netgear thing was a bag of crap in my house and given my nearest neighbour is about a mile away its not a leach using the network as i innitially thought it might be at my parents

   Fed up with orange customer service and this router so what can i buy thats half descent and wont need resetting every day or two

   2 wireless pcs an iphone and a printer attached if it makes any difference.

   Cheers

   Posted 5 months ago #
2. Gordy - Member

   Nowt wrong with Netgear usually. You can get unlucky once with any manufacturer.

   Just buy whatever "good name" router you can find in a sale.

   Posted 5 months ago #
3. bruneep - Member

   my netgear has been faultless for years, only issue I had was with BT and the crap exchanged. They blamed my router, after buying another and still having the same issues the fault was found at the exchange.

   Posted 5 months ago #
4. trail_rat - Member

   Aye ok . The internet was spot on for the 6 or 7 years i was here , i moved out orange upgraded our router to this netgear thing - no end of problems . I plug in my bt supplied router and all is good for the next 3 weeks

   Ill go a shopping then

   Posted 5 months ago #
5. Sandwich - Member

   Never had good experiences with Netgear consumer kit, the pro-stuff works well mind. Linksys, Cisco are my preferred home brand.
   Does the Orange router support modem use only? If so buy a wireless access point (assuming only one wireless connection is required) and plug it into the ethernet socket on the Netgear.

   Posted 5 months ago #
6. Cougar - Member

   My experience of Netgear is they're utterly pish out of the box and bomb-proof once you've got the latest firmware on them.

   Hard to diagnose further as all you've given us to go on is "it's crap," but it sounds like you've got a faulty router; why don't you bounce it back to Orange?

   Posted 5 months ago #
7. trail_rat - Member

   Its crap meaning that it over a period of time ranging from 10 mins to a couple of days it slows down to the speed of dial up

   Switch it off and switch it back on and it goes ok again for a bit repeat ad nauseum

   Cant be bothered fighting with their customerservice its shocking - if it was my connection id be changing supplier they are that bad !

   Posted 5 months ago #
8. Cougar - Member

   Wired and wireless?

   Cant be bothered fighting with their customerservice its shocking

   Not easy when it's not your connection, I know. I'd be giving 'em a bollocking, myself.

   Posted 5 months ago #

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