Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the 'Troubleshooting a Netgear MR814v2 and Airport Extreme' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
Troubleshooting a Netgear MR814v2 and Airport Extreme
Authored by: phasby on Jul 18, '04 12:23:43PM

Continuing after my July 13 post... after turning on UPnP, wireless connection to the MR814v2 remains erratic. Sometimes the Powerbook emerges from sleep or a cold start and connects to NETGEAR pain-free; the new event after UPnP is that it intermittently offers a start-up window "none of your trusted networks can be found. Would you like to connect to Netgear? Would you like to remember this decision?" Clicking yes brings changes the previous "no signal" indicator in Internet Connect to read "connected to Netgear" wth good signal strength, but regardless, the browser still " can't find the server" until I re-run Airport SetUp Assistant.

Any indication that Netgear or Apple are planning further firmwear releases to allow them to work together normally?



[ Reply to This | # ]
Troubleshooting a Netgear MR814v2 and Airport Extreme
Authored by: phasby on Sep 04, '04 10:40:30PM

High hopes this weekend, with Apple offering an Airport Extreme firmware upgrade to 3.4.3, specifically advertised to fix problems in mixed 802.11b and 802.11g networks, like this one. The Airport Extreme booted right up and detected the Netgear signal right away... then took two runs through Airport Setup Assistant to connect to the Internet... and has continued to lose the Internet every couple of hours (or quicker), requiring a Netgear reboot to lose the error message "Airport is connected to network NETGEAR. Airport has a self-assigned IP address and may not be able to connect to the Internet" in the Network window of System Preferences. Turns out Netgear has an upgrade for the MR814v2 as well, firmware v5.3_05. That loaded easily, didn't break anything, and doesn't change the above described pain in the tail.

Is anybody from Apple or Netgear monitoring this forum?

Peter Hasby



[ Reply to This | # ]