justin Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Advice if you may. I need to connect a DVR onto a Sky netgear ADSL router. I would first like to know whether this DG834 ( i think ) router will be any different than the normal netgear ones I am used to. Secondly, I not expecting any issues conneting internally but I woulkd like remote connection, will this router as normal netgears allow me to do portforwarding etc.? I am aware the sky broadband connection won't be static IP, how often do sky connection IP's generally change? I would really need the DVR to be networked wirelessly. Has anyone used a netgear wireless bridge for a DVR before? I have seen the netgear's wireless 'gamming' adapter model WGE111 is this the sort of thing I should be looking at. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lectrician Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Advice if you may.I need to connect a DVR onto a Sky netgear ADSL router. I would first like to know whether this DG834 ( i think ) router will be any different than the normal netgear ones I am used to. Secondly, I not expecting any issues conneting internally but I woulkd like remote connection, will this router as normal netgears allow me to do portforwarding etc.? I am aware the sky broadband connection won't be static IP, how often do sky connection IP's generally change? I would really need the DVR to be networked wirelessly. Has anyone used a netgear wireless bridge for a DVR before? I have seen the netgear's wireless 'gamming' adapter model WGE111 is this the sort of thing I should be looking at. Thanks in advance. The Sky branded netgear is essentially the same, but has a fixed username and password, the password being different per customer, and believe this cannot be changed. There is just then some branding in place. You can completely re-flash the firmware with the standard netgear firmware available from the netgear site. Simply resetting the unit is not enough. I beleive you can do all you want leaving it as a Sky branded router anyway. Email : martin@askthetrades.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breff Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 the user name is admin, password is sky usually. The opinions I express are mine and are usually correct! (Except when I'm wrong)(which I'm not) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BASS Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I just flashed my sky router with netgear's own. Couldn't stand not having full access. It's not a bad little router Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 I just flashed my sky router with netgear's own. Couldn't stand not having full access. It's not a bad little router What do you mean by 'full access' what would it not let you do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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