[SWLUG] Re: Giving up Windows

[Peter Prior]

Foeh Mannay wrote:
> I have a Netgear wifi router DG824M (the old 802.11b one). I have to say
> it's absolute dog s**t. It's supposed to relay DNS (not sure whether it
> caches) but it does an ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE job of it. It can take up to
> 20-25 attempts to resolve a hostname from client PCs. Also it doesn't
> support RTS which means lots of retransmits, and you can't run it in
> ad-hoc mode so printing between laptop and PC is ruled out totally (I
> don't have 45 minutes to print a 2 page document, thanks). It also
> doesn't do any form of bridge mode, so you can't use it if you have a
> snazzy ISP that allows you more than one IP.
> 

Tried a firmware update?