please help upgrade firmware on my netgear dg834gt

[sambohev]

hi, ihave had sky for 3 years now and have a netgear dg834gt and now have an iphone 4. the wifi connection on the laptop and ps3 is really fast but on the iphone its really really slow. i no its not the phone as i have tried it on other isp's and its fine and also took it to apple and they swapped the handset and its exactly the same. anyway i have tried to put the firmware to the original netgear firmware as stated somewhere else in this forum and when i get to the device list on the netgear upgrade wizard its blank and show nothing.
i have tried it several times and done exactly what it states on -
http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/techn...-password.html

i have also got my username and password.

please can someone advise me of what i can do.

my only other alternitive is to buy the new d-link sky router which you can get off ebay for around £30 and swap it over but wasnt sure if i could do that. would it be a striaght swap.

thank you in advance
sam

[NewsreadeR]

You need to use Windows XP - I had the same issue on Windows 7 or Vista.

Just for info, I have an iPhone 3GS and using the Netgear Sky router and it is absolutely fine, although I have flashed the router to standard FW.

[simonmpoulton]

If you bought a new router it would be a straight swap. Are you trying to use Vista/7 to do the router flashing? If not then are you using an ethernet cable? If you are then use XP instead

[sambohev]

thanks for the reply, im using windows 7 and put into compatibily mode for xp and also run as administrator. also yes i am using an ethernet cable. i dont have an xp machine.
sam

[simonmpoulton]

You cant do it on vista/7 it really is as simple as that, if you dont use xp it doesnt work!

[sambohev]

ok thanks

[sambohev]

would you say the d-link is a better modem or the netgear? with mine being 3 years old it might be worth upgrading to the newer one. will it be simple to swap over or do i need the username and password of the netgear?

[simonmpoulton]

The wireless range of the dlink is supposedly better, as for adsl performance they are really about the same as they use the same chipset!