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Originally Posted by Masque
Try it with just the Belkin as it sounds like the Netgear could be the issue.
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I hear what you say, and in effect that's what I have done. The Belkin router I have is wired only and SLOW only giving me 5Mb/s max, I only put it in circuit initially to prove a point and secondly to stop my wife moaning about the main desktop PC dropping connection in the middle of her work!!!
It is well documented that in some installations the WGT624 was prone to dropping connection every few days, with Netgear providing a firmware update to try to resolve the problem. In my case that didn't seem to have much effect!
However my theory, for what it's worth, is that the Netgear WGT624 is less tolerant of the output it is seeing from the modem than is the Belkin, maybe that could be a signal level and/or SNR problem at the output from the modem. By placing the Belkin router in circuit it is possible that the Netgear WGT624 is now seeing a signal level and/or SNR from the Belkin router that suits it better hence the fact it hasn't dropped connection in this configuration. The fact that the WGT624 went from dropping connection approx weekly down to every couple of hours leads me to believe that something changed, either in the output from the modem or the input of the WGT624, unfortunately I have neither the specs on the modem or router, nor the equipment to carry out the tests as long gone are the days when I did that sort of thing for a living!!!
It would be nice to try a new modem as the NTL Home 120 has been in constant use for nearly 9 years and I believe that to be the most likely culprit, degradation of electronic components over time leading to changes in equipment behaviour being a well understood phenomena!