Problems with the Netgear WGT624 Wireless Router??

[Chadder007]

Has anyone else been experiencing problems with the WGT624 model specifically? I have had two of them so far and have had about the same trouble out of them. The first one I had put all of the settings in for the wireless to have encryption and MAC address filtering and locked it down to a certain speed and afterwards tried to install the firmware upgrade to 1.1.1 and it basically made the router useless. I could no longer even ping the router and the power light flashed green from then on instead of staying solid.
The second router I have right now I have of course NOT installed the 1.1.1 firmware upgrade but I did apply the settings to the router for its wireless connection and noticed that I will loose connection to the router even when my PC is hard wired into it. It will ping the 192.168.0.1 part of the time and just loose connection all of the sudden for no reason. I have since reset the router and just allowed it to have everything as default on the wireless part of it and it has been fine now. ....If I put the wireless settings in there again it starts having its little problems again.

Soo....I think there is a problem with the versions that are coming out at the moment with wireless settings being setup like I had mine possibly.

 

[Chadder007]

Sent an email to their tech support. I don't feel like having to talk to someone that can halfway speak EnGrIsH.

Let it be known here if you can reproduce the problems please.....and of course don't try upgrading the firmware just yet either. The guy I talked to on the phone about the first router I had said they have had "issues" with the firmware 1.1.1 upgrade.

Changed Wireless settings are....
Changed the Name of the SSID
Turned off Broadcasting
Turned on MAC address filtering to have my laptops MAC
Turned on "Automatic" WEP 128bit encryption using a passphrase.

....just mess with it for a while and see if your hardwired computer looses connection sometimes along with the wireless ones.

 

[Chadder007]

!!! It started doing the same thing with the settings changed to default.......

Then I figured it out!. Despite having my mom's laptop patched for the MSBlaster worm .....the laptop somehow got the worm that gets RID of MSBlaster. That worm is just as bad as MSBlaster though. It was sending out traffic like a mofo to the router. I noticed it first when the laptops mouse started jerking around .....so I decided to look at the processes and I saw "DLLHOST.exe" taking up 70-90% of the CPU. I knew right then what it was....finally.