I'm probably keeping Netgear and D-Link in business with the amount of networking equipment I've been through, but after my last router seemingly packed up, I used the guarantee and got another one. Same model. Now the fun begins. Using the exact same settings as always, I can get one PC wired, connected to the internet, and one PC wirelessly connected. Upon trying to add my own PC, somehow, as soon as the PC connects, every PC is thrown off the net. Still connected, but nothing. No web pages load, nothing. So I try turning off the route, resetting..and still nothing. Any ideas, on how a brand new, high quality, well set up router, can go t!ts up by adding another PC to it? It seems impossible upon adding a wireles card to another PC, it brings down the whole network irreplacably. This happened with the last one, and I had to call an expert out twice to just get the LAN working again on the wired PC, he leaves with it all working fine and dandy, and before you know it, it's crashed again. Seems ridiculous to me. We've called Wanadoo, who have no clue as 'we aren't using their modem'. The Router in question is a D-Link DSL-G604T. The wireless cards are some crappy X-Micro WAN Cards, but they have worked perfectly for the last 5 months. Thanks.
Process of elimination is what u need, u'll need to turn off and disconnect anything from your router, power on your router by itself and without your internet being connected. now make sure your computer you are having problems with is the FIRST pc you connect to the router, afterwards connect your other wired computer. if you dont have any problems add your wireless pc. if ur problem is when u now connect everything to the net, then u know its a confliction in devices. It may well be that one or more ports are not working correctly on the router, so find out by try all of them with a pc that connects fine to the network. Make sure that your router is using DHCP and all computers are set to obtain via DHCP and that you are not specifying different gateways or IP addresses on the same network. Personally working in networking and using and experiencing alot of wireless and wired networking devices i refuse to use Netgear and tend to stear away from D-Link if i can, Netgear is just plain unreliable and generally is not manufactured or maintained very well, their hardware and software are unreliable (mainly the hardware fails). D-Link seems to have an aweful lot of problems software side, and i seem to experience alot of conflicts when using their hardware. I personally stick to Belkin or PCI.
