I've had it with the DG834Gv4

[bridgej]

Hello J

I installed Windows 7 on a newly built computer at the end of December with a Netgear 834 attached. Almost immediately I started getting dropped internet connections, sometimes several times a day. If you asked Windows nicely it would repair the connection until it happened again. I fixed it by the following method and since then I haven't had any further failures.

Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Services

Scroll down the list until you get to items starting "network". If any of these show manual, change them to automatic. You may need to reboot.

You may also get a dropped connection when waking up from sleep (computer not you). My solution is to go to Power Options in control panel and change the sleep criteria to "Never".

Maybe SP1 will fix these!!

Peter

Thanks for the information although I'm very pleased with the 2700HGV which hasn't locked up/blocked internet traffic at all since installing on Saturday morning, and so I'll be sticking with that box for now.