Netgear WNDR3300 v1 frustrating (vent time)

I have been using this router for a couple years and never did I once suspect that part of my internet frustrations have been comming from it. The reason being that my Qwest DSL line has always been so un-reliable that I just assumed when downloads were timing out that it was thier fault.

Well after 2 years of cussing out Qwest they have finally fixed my line. But even though my modem wasn't disconnecting every 6 min or so now my downloads were timing out. It was hard to pinpoint because it was only hapening on Youtube and iTunes. Finally today i pulled the plug on the router and connected directly to the wireless built into my modem and the problem went away. The modem dosn't have 5 ghz, but at least it works I will just have to make due until I have money for a dual band router.

When I find time I'm going to try out dd-wrt on that old router to see if it fixes things I guess otherwise it is going in the trash. I want to do something with the router because it supports n over the 5 ghz band wich is a fairly unique option.

It could be starting to fail with its age.

Humm, and I just bought a WNDR3700 to play with since I was getting so much crap for running DDWRT on Linksys 54GL's. So far I have been very happy with the performance, though I am working through some auto negotiation issues on the gig ports.

It goes without saying to upgrade the firmware out of the box, but a friend I recommended get one didn't upgrade right away, and found that out of the box all of the guest networking doesn't work.

AMD_Gamer said:

It could be starting to fail with its age.

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Don't know I didn't have reliable internet access until about two weeks agao. Would be only speculation at this point.

archivalbackup said:

Humm, and I just bought a WNDR3700 to play with since I was getting so much crap for running DDWRT on Linksys 54GL's. So far I have been very happy with the performance, though I am working through some auto negotiation issues on the gig ports.

It goes without saying to upgrade the firmware out of the box, but a friend I recommended get one didn't upgrade right away, and found that out of the box all of the guest networking doesn't work.

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I have always kept my firmware up to date. From what I found on the internet it was a common issue with my particular router. I just flashed DD-WRT to it today. I haven't gotten it working yet, I can connect to it through an ethernet port but not through the wireless. So many options in that firmware, it is hard not to destroy things just tweaking away.