{"id":520,"date":"2005-12-18T21:55:15","date_gmt":"2005-12-18T11:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2005-12-18T21:55:15","modified_gmt":"2005-12-18T11:55:15","slug":"fuck-netgear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/18\/fuck-netgear\/","title":{"rendered":"fuck netgear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fuck them right in the ear.<\/p>\n<p>The web UI sucks, doesn&#8217;t actually work properly under a free browser (errr&#8230; okay, Gecko based) &#8211; namely the page where you can change the IP of the router.<\/p>\n<p>In modem mode, it seems to still be able to do PPPoA authentication &#8211; which makes really weird shit happen. like a netmask of 255.255.255.255 &#8211; which I&#8217;m not actually convinced is a ADSL modem problem, possible internode instead. Think about how the hell you&#8217;re meant to access your gateway.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the port forwarding <b>doesn&#8217;t work!!!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a Netgear DG632 ADSL Modem Router.<\/p>\n<p>Although it does run linux (or at least some GPL and some LGPL software). Why the hell can&#8217;t i just get a console into the darn thing.<\/p>\n<p>just what i wanted to spend time on after a day moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuck them right in the ear. The web UI sucks, doesn&#8217;t actually work properly under a free browser (errr&#8230; okay, Gecko based) &#8211; namely the page where you can change the IP of the router. In modem mode, it seems &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/18\/fuck-netgear\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-8o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":521,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/19\/linksys-better-than-netgear\/","url_meta":{"origin":520,"position":0},"title":"linksys better than netgear","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-12-19","format":false,"excerpt":"Bought a linksys ADSL2 Modem\/router today - an AG241. 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