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Strange eircom netgear behaviour

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  • 06-12-2007 5:51am
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    jtiernan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭


    I used to have eircom but moved house and took the router with me. The new place I moved into had digiweb. I wanted to make it wireless so I took a look at the Netgear (the older model) but there was only the modem entrance. So I decided to stick the internet ethernet cable into on of the ethernet slots anyway. But there was no internet. I left it for a few hours and came back again and there was internet. Swiched it off, reset it and the same thing happened again, internet after a few hours but none initially. I tested with another netgear router (the newer one from eircom) and the exact same thing happened. Any ideas why this is?


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    The router only routes via the DSL modem. If you have a separate modem (any non-DSL service) you need a different kind of router with a fifth etherent WAN port instead of phone port.

    Argos call them Cable Routers (they arn't) because cable broadband usually has just an ethernet port on a modem too. Those two routers you have are only for phone line DSL.


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    jtiernan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭jtiernan


    Thanks for the reply. Though, my point is it does work but only after it has bee plugged in for a few hours. I wanted to know the reason for this!


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