Originally Posted by looselipsuk (Post 34523566)

Try this. http://192.168.1.1/start.htm with default name and password. You will find this on the label on the back of the router.
Once on that page select WAS Setup on the left hand side. In the middle box you can untick the Respond to Ping on Internet Port.
Hope this helps as I had to find out the hard way after getting my router as part of the trial.
If you need any more info just ask.

Originally Posted by umairooq01 (Post 34914467)

hi, i have just read ur info regarding netgear router problem.
i have also recived a netgear wireless router from virgin media, and i have conected it to my pc with a wire cause my pc is not wireless enables. anyways i have wlan on my mobile which when i search for it the wlan shows the other wlan netwarks around my flat but my one does not show on it.
sometimes since i have got my wireless router it came on few times by itself and i was able to brouse the net on my mobile using the netgear that i have. but now it went all missing again. could you please help me to sort this out.
thanks.

Originally Posted by Moldova (Post 34914512)

Click here if a white Netgear router and ignore the mention of belkin on the first line.
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34864636-post15.html

Originally Posted by ezay (Post 34914787)

Make sure that your phone supports the version of the wireless e.g 802.11B 802.11G 802.11N.

Originally Posted by Robin Walkers cable modem pages

Stealth-mode firewalls considered harmful
Some firewalls have a hiding mechanism they call stealth. For instance, the High Security setting in ZoneAlarm is an example of stealth mode. In stealth mode, the firewall causes the PC just to ignore incoming connection attempts, rather than rejecting them, as would be normal for incoming connection attempts to closed ports. The result is that the PC appears to be switched off and absent from the network.

This hyper-paranoid approach to security causes some difficulties. For a start, Internet standard RFC 1122 states categorically about ICMP Echoes (ping):

3.2.2.6 Echo Request/Reply: RFC-792

Every host MUST implement an ICMP Echo server function that receives Echo Requests and sends corresponding Echo Replies.

Note the MUST rather than SHOULD. This means that any internet user, or ISP server, has a right to expect that all live PCs connected to the internet will respond to ICMP ping requests with an ICMP reply. If a firewall user chooses to stealth ICMP requests so that no response is sent, they have only themselves to blame if they start experiencing problems, because they are in breach of RFC 1122.

The problems that might arise if you kill ICMP responses with stealth are:

Difficulties with DHCP lease acquisition or renewal in cases where the DHCP server checks on the availability of IP addresses, or your presence on the network, with ICMP ping requests [this doesn't actually happen on the original NTL network, but ICMP requests have been seen coming from the DHCP servers of digital TV set-top boxes. No problems seen with blueyonder];

Slowness of web connection setup in cases where the remote web server uses ICMP to determine the MTU of the response path;
Frustration at ISP help-desks (and with informal helpers) if your PC does not respond to pings and traceroutes, as it is difficult to distinguish this situation from a broken connection.

So you are strongly advised not to apply stealth techniques to the ICMP protocol. In the freeware version of ZoneAlarm, this means you should run it in Medium Security, not High Security, for the Internet Zone. In ZoneAlarm Pro, you can configure ICMP behaviour to permit ICMP Echo packets in and out even in High Security, using the Customize button of the Security Settings panel.

Originally Posted by umairooq01 (Post 34915050)

thanks for ur quick reply i am going to try this now and see what happens

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hi again thanks alot for ur help it was really helpfull.
i have just changed the channel from 6 to 1 and it started to show up when i search for the netgear on my mobile using wlan. great. thanks alot.