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I was having too many issues with my Belkin and decided to move on.
First impressions of the Netgear...*not* impressed. Upon trying to install it, the setup disk had 2 *HUGE* errors on it....
If you have a non-windows system, setup gets around this by using an HTML based guide that walks you through setting the router up. Instructions are to open up a 'index.htm' file, which basically consists of an imagemap that point you to different setup files on the CD.
Guess what...the actual image of the imagemap was named wrong on the CD! When you open up the .htm file, the image can't load and you just see a broken image/link icon. Viewing the source code, and browsing through the contents of the CD showed me what was going on. Knowing a bit about imagemaps though, I hoped it would still function without the image itself present (see the cursor in the first image). I located the file and opened it up in Preview, and used that to approximate the location of things as I hovered the mouse over the map. I thought I was being pretty clever...Guess what happened next...
When you click the link for setup in English...*THAT* points to the wrong place as well (see the 2nd image). I didn't bother to do any searching at that point to see if it was the source code or the file that was wrong. I was able to click on setup for Spanish, Swedish, French, you name it. All the languages worked except english. So then I got clever again, and loaded the Dashboard translator widget, figuring it would get me by enough to set the thing up. I got through the first few pages, but no dice after that...the widget needs an internet connection.
I finally broke down and dusted off my PC...booted it up, installed my ISP software on it, and used that machine to configure the router. It was so belittling to have to resort to that.
Now i'm having trouble configuring the wireless security, as it only seems to have WEP and WPA-PSK. I want something safer than WEP, and Airport doesn't seem to play with WPA-PSK. I'm in WEP for now...and it seems to be functioning well. A bit slower than my Belkin was, but not by much.
Still, i've never had such a nightmare setting up a router. I can't believe the setup CD would be so error ridden. It's completely unacceptable to allow a product to ship like this. Not a good first impression.
-Nick
First impressions of the Netgear...*not* impressed. Upon trying to install it, the setup disk had 2 *HUGE* errors on it....
If you have a non-windows system, setup gets around this by using an HTML based guide that walks you through setting the router up. Instructions are to open up a 'index.htm' file, which basically consists of an imagemap that point you to different setup files on the CD.
Guess what...the actual image of the imagemap was named wrong on the CD! When you open up the .htm file, the image can't load and you just see a broken image/link icon. Viewing the source code, and browsing through the contents of the CD showed me what was going on. Knowing a bit about imagemaps though, I hoped it would still function without the image itself present (see the cursor in the first image). I located the file and opened it up in Preview, and used that to approximate the location of things as I hovered the mouse over the map. I thought I was being pretty clever...Guess what happened next...
When you click the link for setup in English...*THAT* points to the wrong place as well (see the 2nd image). I didn't bother to do any searching at that point to see if it was the source code or the file that was wrong. I was able to click on setup for Spanish, Swedish, French, you name it. All the languages worked except english. So then I got clever again, and loaded the Dashboard translator widget, figuring it would get me by enough to set the thing up. I got through the first few pages, but no dice after that...the widget needs an internet connection.
I finally broke down and dusted off my PC...booted it up, installed my ISP software on it, and used that machine to configure the router. It was so belittling to have to resort to that.
Now i'm having trouble configuring the wireless security, as it only seems to have WEP and WPA-PSK. I want something safer than WEP, and Airport doesn't seem to play with WPA-PSK. I'm in WEP for now...and it seems to be functioning well. A bit slower than my Belkin was, but not by much.
Still, i've never had such a nightmare setting up a router. I can't believe the setup CD would be so error ridden. It's completely unacceptable to allow a product to ship like this. Not a good first impression.
-Nick