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Troubleshooting a Netgear MR814v2 and Airport Extreme
Authored by: jamiemccarthy on Jul 03, '05 12:43:21PM

We have a Netgear MR814v2, firmware 5.03 (Nov 18 2003), and are trying to connect to it with a pair of Airport Extreme cards for two new (June 2005) computers (one iMac, one iBook).

The MR814v2 is connected to SBC DSL. It was set up with 128-bit WEP encryption and a list of MAC addresses in its Wireless Card Access List. The Macs could see the name of the network. Once the access list and password were in place, the Macs were given IP addresses manually. (If the Macs were set to have a DHCP address assigned, the address they saw was incorrect, not even in the 192.168.0.0/16 netblock. I'm not sure what caused this, it may be related to another open wireless network that is accessible from this location.)

I had turned uPNP on, and after lots of fiddling around, the best I could get was for the Macs to report that they were on the internet, and the MR814 to recognize (in Attached Devices) that the Macs were present. Using Terminal.app, the Macs could ping and be pinged by each other and other devices on the wireless network, and ifconfig reported what looked like a connection -- but they could not ping the router ("no route") and could not send any traffic outside the network.

Setting UPnP's Advertisement Time To Live from the default up to 25 hops seems to have made it work.

I don't know whether that was really the fix or it was just random, and I don't know how long the fix will continue to work. If it breaks again, I'll try to report back here.



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Troubleshooting a Netgear MR814v2 and Airport Extreme
Authored by: ctb-y on Apr 21, '06 10:15:39AM

I have a similar problem with my ibook G4, OX 10.4.
I have a Netgear MR814v2, I am connected to the router, I can even ping outside websites with terminal.app, but I cannot get a website onto either Safari or Firefox.
Does anyone have an idea what I can do?

Thanks for great forum.
Chris



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