Netgear WGT624

From: CheshireCat (nospam_at_spam.com)
Date: 10/21/03 

Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:51:52 +0100

Hi

Ive just bought one of these wireless router/firewalls after a very happy
lifetime of Netgears FR114P cabled firewall.
In the short term I dont have plans for using its wireless functionality as
there doesnt appear to be a 108mbps PCI card available yet, so I'll wait a
while.

Unfortunately I had a days worth of problems connecting to the ISP until I
swapped to a crossover ethernet cable. They did include their own cable but
it was a regular patch one and too short anyway.
The niggling worries Ive got about this unit are
1) I get an occasional XP warning that there's no internet available
(clicking Retry returns the connection OK)
2) There's a quad-state LED on the unit that represents the Internet
connection and it can shine Red, Amber or Green. With both types of cable it
flickers amber while in use. I'm wondering why it doesnt flicker Green and
why it flickered at all when I used the regular patch cable.

Generally, it's advertised as a firewall/router but going through the
configuration options I can see only outgoing options - ie content
filtering, site,service blocking.
I cant seem to find configuration options for its advertised VPN service,
are there supposed to be any?
Logging will only provide information on outgoing traffic, no option to log
incoming traffic.

Although it advertises SPI, comparing it's options to those available on the
FR114P I would really only class this unit as a router. My initial
impression is that its packaging title misleads as described "108Mbps
Wireless Firewall Router"

Relevant Pages

  • Re: WEP / WPA problems
    ... Check the Netgear site for firmware updates to the router. ... WEP and WPA encryption will slow down a wireless connection about ... firewall running on his XP machine, ...
    (alt.internet.wireless)
  • Re: share my printer between 2 computers and surf with 2 computers at same time
    ... The main choice you have to make is whether to have the router include wireless capability or not. ... Because wireless routers for home use are relatively inexpensive these days, I'd suggest buying a wireless router even if you don't initially intend to use that capability. ... If you already have a UTP cable going between upstairs and downstairs, you can use that to have a wired network. ... caused by 1) a misconfigured firewall; ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web)
  • Re: share my printer between 2 computers and surf with 2 computers at same time
    ... The main piece of hardware you need to buy is a router. ... Because wireless routers for home use are ... you can use that to have a wired network. ... caused by 1) a misconfigured firewall; ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web)
  • Re: Home Network
    ... > know if your problems are related to a misconfigured firewall or something ... >>already have a router. ... > The OP already has a wireless router but hasn't told us which one. ... >>will need to set them all to the same Workgroup. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web)
  • Re: Home Network
    ... > know if your problems are related to a misconfigured firewall or something ... >>already have a router. ... > The OP already has a wireless router but hasn't told us which one. ... >>will need to set them all to the same Workgroup. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)