February 2010 Blog Posts

Netgear DG834G V5 and Xbox 360

As of 18/02/2010 this router does not work out-of-the-box with an Xbox 360,no matter what firmware version you have but there is a solution. There are a couple of “me too” threads on forum.netgear.com that make for some depressing reading. However if you don’t want to wade through everyone saying “It doesn’t work for me either” jump straight to the solution. Many thanks to runDMB. Basically the v5 router has issues automatically dishing out IP addresses to certain devices, it works for my work laptop, desktop, wireless music streamer and phone. The fix involves reserving an IP...