[HLUG] Router

[Julian Robbins]

Netgear text recognition isn't all its cracked up to be

I typed it again and this time it said 'neither' for Netgear

😃

Julian
On 6 Aug 2014 09:58, "tim spivey" <tim.spivey at gmail.com> wrote:

> What is a mergers router?
>
> On 6 August 2014 09:14, Julian Robbins <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > True
> > But I have a mergers router
> >
> > Julian
> > On 6 Aug 2014 07:06, "tim spivey" <tim.spivey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Julian
> >>
> >> The issues you have sound very familiar and remind me why I got rid of
> the
> >> ISP supplied router.
> >>
> >> Tim
> >> On 5 Aug 2014 23:01, "Julian Robbins" <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi Tim
> >> >
> >> > I've been aware of DD-WRT for a long while but never tried it.
> >> >
> >> > But I have had odd repeatable issues with very slow downloading of
> >> images,
> >> > where the images on a webpage hold up the rendering of the whole page
> >> > massively. Download times are ok, but theres something odd going on.
> >> >
> >> > Perhaps I'll try DD-WRT or another router at some point.
> >> >
> >> > Julian
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On 5 August 2014 21:13, tim spivey <tim.spivey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Hello all
> >> > >
> >> > > Sorry I have not made any recent meetings, but thought you may be
> >> > > interested in what I have been up to.
> >> > >
> >> > > I installed DD-WRT on my router.  It is an open source firmware that
> >> > > gets more out of the router, I specifically did it as TalkTalk now
> >> > > provide a few Internet streaming TV channels which stopped working
> >> > > when I ditched the router (Huawei HG 533) they supplied in place
> for a
> >> > > fairly cheap Netgear WNR2000v2. The Netgear seems to handle DNS
> better
> >> > > and surfing the Web is now an a lot more pleasurable experience.
> >> > > These Internet TV channels not working did annoy me a bit though, I
> >> > > found out it was due to the Firewall in the router blocking
> Multicast
> >> > > 'signals'.  There was no way to remedy this using stock firmware but
> >> > > installing DD-WRT gave me a lot more options and it was very easy to
> >> > > enable Multicast. http://www.dd-wrt.com/
> >> > >
> >> > > Tim
> >> > >
> >> > > PS The Linux Voice (the new name for Linux Format (I think)) do a
> >> > > really good podcast
> >> > >
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