Thunder destroyed my gateway, what to go for now?

lay-z-boy · 5 Jul 2006 at 13:59

Hi guys,

Unfotunatly my wag54g router is now in a smoldering heap of plastic due to yesterdays weather, currently im using my phone for gprs internet.

I was wondering what the best all-in-one is right now?

dyndns, external dynamic ip, wireless and perfect stability is required as my wag never crashed once untill it fried.

tia.

atomiser · 5 Jul 2006 at 14:03

if your happy with how it performed then why not just replace it? and perhaps invest in a surge protector?

lay-z-boy · 5 Jul 2006 at 14:14

I do have a surge protector, however it was struck through the phone line, what i dont understand is how the router was fried but the phone and fax which plug into the same port survived?

I need to buy the router from ocuk today as its along the path i take to pick up the kids from school, unfortunatly they do not stock the wag54g anymore or i would have not asked.

turbotoes · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:01

I'm probably to late to help, but I'd say netgear dg834g.
I changed to one when my wag54g died and I love it. apart from one irritant that won't interest you if you need to change your user name and password a lot or ever

turbotoes

NathanE · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:16

Get one of these to protect your phone line. They cost about £15 but will prevent such a situation occuring again

Just make sure you hook that earth wire to a good earth point.

Curiosityx · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:19

I would stick with the WAG54G, its a solid, stable little box, but doesnt stand up to lightening..shame!

NathanE · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:22

Curiosityx said:
I would stick with the WAG54G, its a solid, stable little box, but doesnt stand up to lightening..shame!

No modem will

Always need in-line surge protection.

lay-z-boy · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:51

I have ordered a netgear dg834g, i didnt have time to go there, traffic was :mad:

as usual.
I hope this has snmp or its going right back.

Nathan, i have a surge protector for my ethernet line that comes from the wag to the main network switch, according to the logs on my ups, this has stopped the surge going any further.
However it would seem that i do need to invest in a dsl line suppressor.

R.I.P wag54g.

iwrox · 5 Jul 2006 at 18:49

Unfortunatly i had a DG834G v2 and it did not have any form of usable SNMP.

Dredd · 5 Jul 2006 at 20:21

same problem here, next door got hit, came along the phone line, killed 1st router went to other two also got dead ports, fax is dead too

server still alive

got few dead lan cards to replace, and firealarm(i need to check),

had protection on everything but the adsl line

grr

can it damage lan cables too?, sure some not working too well.

but next door had protection and lost everything tv, ps2, pc, latops, everything that was plug in

Curiosityx · 6 Jul 2006 at 00:50

NathanE said:
No modem will Always need in-line surge protection.

Quite aware of that, thank you.

lay-z-boy · 6 Jul 2006 at 02:32

iwrox said:
Unfortunatly i had a DG834G v2 and it did not have any form of usable SNMP.

in that case i will cancel the order and get the wag354g, im sure my cantenna's are up to the job of insane wifi coverage like i had on my wag.

same problem here, next door got hit, came along the phone line, killed 1st router went to other two also got dead ports, fax is dead too

server still alive

got few dead lan cards to replace, and firealarm(i need to check),

had protection on everything but the adsl line grr

can it damage lan cables too?, sure some not working too well.

but next door had protection and lost everything tv, ps2, pc, latops, everything that was plug in

I had to belt round the house turning everything off and unplugging it, unfortunatly it seems the sky box didnt survive as i had not got round to that along with the kids' nintendo ds chargers.

My ups has an ethernet surge protector on it, so everything before that (the wag) died.

:mad:

Why was i the only one to suffer problems in nantwich....yeesh.

Currently sitting on a rather lame usb dsl modem, i get a better ping by walking to the pc im pinging. :rolleyes:

ns400r · 6 Jul 2006 at 02:48

You CAN use SNMP with the 834 but not straight out of the box. It needs a little setting up and suffers from defaulting back to off on a power cycle !

Mook · 6 Jul 2006 at 10:28

The lightning knocked off my connection but router still intact thankfully

kip02 · 6 Jul 2006 at 11:28

This happened to me about a month ago but i'm on cable. It took out the modems ethernet port, the wan port on my router, onboard ethernet on my computer, and two others.

Thank god my 360 wasn't connected at the time as it was downstairs.

So it cost me a new router, ntl replaced the modem and a couple of lan cards and i couldn't imagine how as all my computers have surge protectors, till the ntl engineer explained it.