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    G73JH causing Netgear WNR2000 router to reboot

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by diegovar, May 3, 2010.

  1. diegovar

    diegovar Notebook Guru

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    I'm experiencing a weird issue with my brand new G73JH, and I hope you guys can help me figure out what's wrong. I bought my G73JH 1 week ago, and the wifi was working fine with my (crappy) Netgear WNR2000 router. Suddenly, on friday the connection to the router kept dropping out every couple of minutes (on Win 7). After some experimenting, I realised that this only happens if my G73JH is trying to use the internet; if I turn it off my brothers can access internet perfectly without any drops. I scanned mu PC for any weird viruses that could be sending absurd amounts of data to the router thus causing this, but I found nothing.

    The weird thing is that this happens 90% of the time, but once in a while the router decides not to die, and I get a connection for some time until it starts dying once again.


    My question would be: has anyone experimented behaviour like this with your machines? Do you have any idea of what could be causing this? I'm out of ideas and I really don't want to have to go through the hassle of backuping and reformatting just to try if that works. :(

    Thanks!

    Diego
     
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  2. aramis109

    aramis109 Notebook Deity

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    I have a Netgear - WNR3000? and it works great for me. I had a Linksys that would reset every time my PS3 was booted up and the Netgear now has no issues.

    I'm using ddwrt firmware on my router. Have you considered flashing it to 3rd-party firmware? In my opinion it's really good and it may take care of your issue.

    Like I said, never had this issue with my G73 but I've seen something similar with my PS3 and the old Linksys I had.
     
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  3. diegovar

    diegovar Notebook Guru

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    I got it to work by setting my router in G mode only (max 54mbps), which kind of sucks because using draft-n was the point of my router change.

    I didn't know dd-wrt was available for netgear routers! I used to have a trusty wrt54g with dd-wrt, but it joined the choir invisible, passing on to another life after many years of service. I'll try flashing to dd-wrt tomorrow, thanks!

    Diego
     
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    diegovar Notebook Guru

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    Apparently dd-wrt doesn't work with the WRN2000, so I'm screwed.
     
    diegovar, May 4, 2010
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    Ah, that sucks. Sorry I suggested it then. I hope you find a solution. Check to see if there's newer official firmware maybe?
     
    aramis109, May 4, 2010
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