January 14th, 2011, 01:37 PM
The individual ports themselves, where the RJ45's plug in, will go bad.
On the FVS318, there's one WAN port and 8 LAN ports. Obviously the
WAN port's dedicated, but have you tried switching the...
January 3rd, 2011, 11:16 PM
I wouldn't update the firmware if I didn't feel I had to, or if I didn't have a back up unit.
One packet lost in 654 is perfectly acceptable. Anytime you get more than 1% packet loss and things...
January 3rd, 2011, 10:54 PM
How long has that Netgear FVS318 been around? I have a "pull" from a
client's office that flaked out similarly to what you described after 3 or 4
years. I did update the firmware and continue to...
January 3rd, 2011, 10:36 PM
Also, what are you running for a gateway? I've had recent problems on a
free wifi network I admin when I set udp filtering a little too low and the users
were unable to connect to a DNS server. ...
January 3rd, 2011, 10:33 PM
Hardware? Got an extra NIC around?
Could it be an ISP issue? Are you dropping packets?
I often run continuous pings against www.yahoo.com, sometimes for
days at a time, to gauge packet...
January 3rd, 2011, 10:01 PM
Try an alternative DNS server. Level3 has public DNS servers at:
4.2.2.1
4.2.2.2
Google's are at:
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
