Netgear WGR614

[elinor1]

I have just bought one of these and connected it up correctly and all the lights are on but it won't connect to the internet. I can get online with my usual modem - a netopia. I have phoned support but they say they are not very familiar with macs and something needs to be disabled - an auto-detect thing? Does that mean anything to anyone?

Do you think I should try and get my money back and get a different router? I wanted to be able to use my ibook and a windows laptop wirelessly using the same internet connection. Only the mac is set up to go on the internet at the moment. I am on adsl broadband.

Any help would be welcome.

thanks

 

[powermac]

Search the forum, not sure about netgear, but some work around for linksys have been to lower the encryption of the password setting. For example, instead of 128-bit lower it to 48-bit. Additionally, I read placing the '$' symbol before you password, on the Mac for the network worked as well.
The forum should have discussions on this topic. Give the forum a search, others solutions may have been done.