[Malvern] Netgear DG814.

[Andrew McKenzie]

Hi Geoff,

I have one of the DG814 Netgear routers. Overall iam happy with it, although 
it does have it's niggly bits.
Essentiall it is a standard 4port ethernet switch and ADSL router (sorry no 
wifi)that was the predessessor to the DG834 i think. Also as such i dont 
think they make the DG814 anymore, so good luck trying to track one down.

The problems i have had with it are that in port forwarding there are only 
10 entries you can setup, which does tend to suck if you want to setup 
forwarding for more than a few machines. Also the firmware is a pain in the 
butt. Through trial and error i have found the best one for my router 
(v.4.8) and unfortunitly 4.9 and 4.10 do not like my router, they disconnect 
repeatedly or just plain wont connect to the net.
I have found with 4.8 that also i can leave the router for more than a 
single weekend downloading without it falling over.
If it does fall over there are 2 things to do:
If you can access the interface, just use it to disconnect then reconnect.
If you can not access the interface just flip the on off switch and it will 
reconnect (but this take slightly longer as the DHCP server needs to restart 
if you are using that feature)

Other than that it is a really good router, simple to setup and any issues 
can be fixed quickly, the online interface is really good, much better than 
other dlinks i have tried and seen. Also the same interface (or very 
similar) is in the newer line of netgear routers. Also works out the box on 
all flavours of linux i have fiddled with (as long as you can get the 
network adaptor to work).


Andy M

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