Re: Before I send new Netgear DG834GT back to Amazon ,,,

Bruce Horrocks <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <1h7y407.110m7vc106asyhN%usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Woody
> <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >> It's very unlikely that the unit has a fault that causes wireless to
> >> fail but allows everything else to work. So a replacement is also likely
> >> to not work.
> >
> >Why? It is unlikely that the signal is failing before the radio part,
> >but then it is a radio transmitter, and they have all maner of things
> >that can go wrong.
>
> Because it almost certainly left the factory working so any faults
> introduced later were caused by bad handling. It's *very* unlikely that
> a bang received in shipping broke just the circuit tracks/wiring leading
> to the aerials and nothing else. Since everything else is more on less
> on one chip, if the LAN bit of it works so too does the wireless bit.

As the wireless part is almost certainly a separate board, it is
perfectly possible the wiring to the board was dodgy to start with and
fell off in shiping.


--
Woody

www.alienrat.com
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