Anybody else know anything fruitfull about this fing modem ! bloody netgear have on gone and changed the flaming chipset on this model as I understand it, yet kept the name in line with dg834g model line, so it now uses a completely different chipset from the once trusty dg834g ? which as far as im concerned is a sacrilige, if your changing to an incompatible chipset then the least you can do is change model to a completely different schema so that no-one and i mean no-one is confused about whether its firmware upgradeable to an open firmware or other firmware in the DG834 line. Could the firmware be flashed to something usefull say by dgteam. The ISP’s and netgear are going to create a hell of allot of landfill between them with these locked routers their producing, its just like the mobile phone industry now, trying to padlock their customers in, half the time they charge for these routers up front anyway ?! so what is the point of locking them, or they charge over a year to recoup the cost if they give them away free, and the user switches isp perhaps every 2 years ? so why oh why are they locking them, its because corporate vehicles are often psychopaths ! ie they dont have any moral care for the environment.
we should intitiate a law that all ADSL modems sold in this country must not be locked to isp’s, after all adsl is an international agreed standard and should not be getting locked up like this.
They are normally locked to a particular ISP. They can be used with other ISPs, but, impossible to update the firmware, or at least very hard. There are utillities that can unlock them, search Unlock Netgear DG834GSP, but, it may not work and is difficult.
I had one when I was with Virgin Media. I left them due to bad practices and they gave me it as an apology. Now my line has been recently upgraded my connection has become unstable and it needs a firmware upgrade which I can’t do due to it being locked. So what appeared to be a gift was not. Evidently when they need to update it they send you a new one, you send the old one back and they scrap it. Landfill costs money so by giving you it you have to dispose of it in the end when buying a new one. It’s a wasteful restrictive practice intended to hassle the customer if they leave.