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About a month ago I purchased a new router because it seemed like my Linksys router had bit the dust. I now have a Netgear WGR614v10 model. Set up was easy and everything was up and running in minutes. A couple weeks later weird stuff started to happen.
A couple times I simply couldn't access my network. Frustrated, I would pretty much just wait it out and a few hours later or the next day it would work just fine. Now the problem is perpetual. Airport now defaults to an unprotected network nearby, which obviously isn't optimal. Sometimes it finds my network, doesn't ask me for the password, and simply "connects" me but there's no signal. Once in a blue moon it DOES ask me for a password and won't connect, giving me one of "Connection failed", "Connection timeout", or "See Administrator". Sometimes it doesn't even list my network at all (this also applies to other networks in the area). This is especially maddening when I go from the unprotected network to my network (just to try and see if it will work), then when my network fails to work it won't find the unprotected one anymore!
I've tried all the standard tricks like refreshing/resetting my modem and router. I've done all the software updates as well. I've also gone into the router setup and everything looks fine (as far as a layman can tell). Are these routers simply junk, is something going on with my Airport, what? Any help would be appreciated.
A couple times I simply couldn't access my network. Frustrated, I would pretty much just wait it out and a few hours later or the next day it would work just fine. Now the problem is perpetual. Airport now defaults to an unprotected network nearby, which obviously isn't optimal. Sometimes it finds my network, doesn't ask me for the password, and simply "connects" me but there's no signal. Once in a blue moon it DOES ask me for a password and won't connect, giving me one of "Connection failed", "Connection timeout", or "See Administrator". Sometimes it doesn't even list my network at all (this also applies to other networks in the area). This is especially maddening when I go from the unprotected network to my network (just to try and see if it will work), then when my network fails to work it won't find the unprotected one anymore!
I've tried all the standard tricks like refreshing/resetting my modem and router. I've done all the software updates as well. I've also gone into the router setup and everything looks fine (as far as a layman can tell). Are these routers simply junk, is something going on with my Airport, what? Any help would be appreciated.
