Okay I’m posting a thread about this issue because I’ve
been looking all over google for a solution to this problem
and I can’t find one relevant page. As such I’ve been
dealing with the Netgear support staff for a week and they
haven’t been much help either, so I’ll lay out the problem
that I’m having with this ?new amazing router” that
NetGear just released and see if anyone on here has any
suggestions…
So I’m setting up a new Wireless-N router for a client of
mine who’s always had range problems with their old
Wireless-G network. Up until now they always had a
Linksys WRT54Gv2 router which, despite its limited range,
never gave them ANY problems. All the computers in
their home network could always communicate with each
other and all the shared printers on the various computers
were accessible to all even with all the computers having
their firewalls turned on.
So I install the new Netgear WNR834Bv2 Wireless-N router
in place of the old Linksys one and everything seems to be
going good? great signal, I can access the internet on all
the computers right out of the box, BEAUTIFUL!
? but wait? Why can?t any of the computers print
anymore? Oh they?re not visible to each other anymore?
and why are all the computers no longer visible to each
other anymore? Well that?s the 25,000 dollar question
that I?ve been spending the past two weeks trying to
figure out.
I won?t tell you the 45 steps I?ve gone through up until
now to figure out what I have so far, but here?s the
relevant information? When I completely disable the
Windows Firewall on all the computers, suddenly
everything works fine. But when I turn on the firewall with
the ?File and Printer Sharing? firewall exception enabled in
the Advanced menu, the old Linksys router communicates
fine through that but the new Netgear one doesn?t.
What gives? It?s almost like each computer is sending a
signal to one port on the Netgear router and the router is
now either sending it to another port or doing something
screwy with it that makes the other computers think it?s
not a File and Printer Sharing related signal and they in-
turn ignore it.
As a side note, I could always ping the other machines
running the Linksys router through the command prompt
even with the firewalls enabled, but now I can?t ping the
other machines through the NetGear router unless all the
firewalls are completely disabled.
Anyway, that?s my issue. Does anyone know what could
be causing that or what I would need to do to create a
new exception in the windows firewall in order to listen to
the correct NetGear File and Printer Sharing port since it
no longer matches the Windows default port for File and
Printer Sharing?
