Netgear question

Hope this is noddy.

I have a DG834GT box and just recently two of the "lights" in the
middle, round one and the post with circle at bottom, seem to spend
their time blinking away....

and they never used to.

Nothing is happening on my local area connection status.

Should I worry and if so what should I do?

Many thanks

Aj

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:34:17 +0100, Hankjam wrote:

Hope this is noddy.

I have a DG834GT box and just recently two of the "lights" in the
middle, round one and the post with circle at bottom, seem to spend
their time blinking away....

and they never used to.

Nothing is happening on my local area connection status.

Should I worry and if so what should I do?

Dunno, but I'd RTFM for a start.

"Gotde T Shirt" wrote in message
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:34:17 +0100, Hankjam wrote:

Hope this is noddy.

I have a DG834GT box and just recently two of the "lights" in the
middle, round one and the post with circle at bottom, seem to spend
their time blinking away....

and they never used to.

Nothing is happening on my local area connection status.

Should I worry and if so what should I do?

Dunno, but I'd RTFM for a start.

Here's a photo of the lights on my DG834GT

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/5749/img1638zo2.jpg

The left light is the power: that should stay on continuously.

Jut visible to the right is a tick-mark: that flashes amber while the router
is booting and then goes out.

The "lollipop" light is the wireless light.

The "letter-i-in-a-circle" is the DSL light.

The 1 and 2 are two of the lights for the four Ethernet ports.

All these should be on continuously but should flash briefly and randomly as
data is transferred - typically you will see one of:

- wireless+DSL (a wireless PC talks to the internet)

- wireless and 1, 2, 3 or 4 (a wireless PC talks to an Ethernet PC)

- 1 and 2 etc (two Ethernet PCs talk to each other)

- 1, 2, 3 or 4 and DSL (an Ethernet PC talks to the internet)


Very occasionally I've seen my DG834GT get into a state where the DSL light
flickers rapidly and continuously without any other light flickering. This
corresponds with PCs being unable to access the internet (ping
news.bbc.co.uk times-out) and is cured by unplugging the DSL cable for a
couple of seconds (or by rebooting the router). It seems to get into a state
where it does this repeatedly for an hour or so every couple of months. It
may be due to overheating which is why I've got my router standing on a
metal hard disk cage to keep it off the desk and allow air to circulate
underneath it.

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 00:11:19 +0100, "Mortimer" wrote:

"Gotde T Shirt" wrote in message
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:34:17 +0100, Hankjam wrote:

Hope this is noddy.

I should have read my mail before sending....

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Here's a photo of the lights on my DG834GT

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/5749/img1638zo2.jpg

The left light is the power: that should stay on continuously.

Jut visible to the right is a tick-mark: that flashes amber while the router
is booting and then goes out.

The "lollipop" light is the wireless light.

The "letter-i-in-a-circle" is the DSL light.

The 1 and 2 are two of the lights for the four Ethernet ports.

All these should be on continuously but should flash briefly and randomly as
data is transferred - typically you will see one of:

- wireless+DSL (a wireless PC talks to the internet)

- wireless and 1, 2, 3 or 4 (a wireless PC talks to an Ethernet PC)

- 1 and 2 etc (two Ethernet PCs talk to each other)

- 1, 2, 3 or 4 and DSL (an Ethernet PC talks to the internet)


Very occasionally I've seen my DG834GT get into a state where the DSL light
flickers rapidly and continuously without any other light flickering. This
corresponds with PCs being unable to access the internet (ping
news.bbc.co.uk times-out) and is cured by unplugging the DSL cable for a
couple of seconds (or by rebooting the router). It seems to get into a state
where it does this repeatedly for an hour or so every couple of months. It
may be due to overheating which is why I've got my router standing on a
metal hard disk cage to keep it off the desk and allow air to circulate
underneath it.


Many thanks for this detailed and graphical response.

Must be something like that because they are now very quiet.

I tend to unplug over night and have got out of that routine recently
and been lazy and just left it on....

Thanks again

Aj

Hi,

Turning the router on and off my lead the exchange to think there is a line
fault or other issues with your broadband.

This may lead the the speed of the connection dropping.

Once you are connected then leave the router on and only power it off when
needed to reset it.

Kind Regards

Simon

Simon Zerafa wrote:
Hi,

Turning the router on and off my lead the exchange to think there is a line
fault or other issues with your broadband.

This may lead the the speed of the connection dropping.

Once you are connected then leave the router on and only power it off when
needed to reset it.

Kind Regards

Simon


I am not so sure that this isn't a myth.

Normally once the system is et up, BT only monitors noise related
resynchs. Leatswise mines been up and dwn a lot recently due to power
issues,and its synching fine, and the BRAS is still good.

The only problems I get with a reboot, are that chances are it will
synch to a higher speed than it can realistically maintain, so its a bit
flakey for a half a day or so before it finds a synch speed it is happy
with.

"Hankjam" ........ wrote in message
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Hope this is noddy.

I have a DG834GT box and just recently two of the "lights" in the
middle, round one and the post with circle at bottom, seem to spend
their time blinking away....

and they never used to.

Nothing is happening on my local area connection status.

Should I worry and if so what should I do?

Many thanks

Aj


It could be your wireless connection 'light'

Have you got adequate security enabled on your wireless network? if not the
flashing lights could be a neighbour accessing your broadband connection
utilising your wireless network.

Steve.

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 19:13:56 +0100, "steveybar"
wrote:


"Hankjam" ........ wrote in message
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It could be your wireless connection 'light'

Have you got adequate security enabled on your wireless network? if not the
flashing lights could be a neighbour accessing your broadband connection
utilising your wireless network.

Steve.

Wondered about this, so went into setup and disabled wireless, as I
don't use. Will be interesting to see what happens to my usage, as I
seem to be using more than normal..

Thanks for the response

Aj