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centaur
17th July 2009, 03:24 PM
I hope that you can help
I am with Be and suffer from their apalling Thompson router and so I bought the above Netgear on EBay - the seller did not state is was other than normal. However the box is Virgin branded and although a V3 router the firmware begins V1.
Having suspected that that the modem had Virgin firmware it was only on this forum that my suspicions were confirmed.
My son has a required PC (I use Macs) we tried the technique you outlined in the previous thread. However upon reaching the stage of weeding out redundant ethernet cards the system does nothing, the box which should contain the correct inteface device remains blank and the process cannot continue. We waited for half an hour or so with the LAN LED blinking away but have given up.
Can you tell me if this technique works with the DG 834G V3 router? and, if so what is it that we doing incorrectly?

TIA

laurentio
17th July 2009, 04:12 PM
I have reports that some models won't work using the above described method but are usually more responsive to the method that let's you change the firmware for Sky routers (Netgear also)

See more here:

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/technical-discussion/1199-ive-done-flashed-router-got-my-sky-password.html

centaur
18th July 2009, 03:20 PM
Thanks for that link - couldn't get it to work - using the plug and press reset technique on the DG 834 resulted in the test LED blinking but whenn applying the upgrade app. we got as far as choosing the ethercard card but the device window remains blank, the LAN LED flashes for a while but that I'm afraid is all.
Thanks for your help, I appreciate it

Cheers