Yesterday had a firsthand experience with the DGN2200 which touts the "NETGEAR Genie® CD-less installation" which is 'supposed' to help detect what kind of internet connection you have by using information present in the DSL connection.
Netgear DGN2200
Client I attended had a TPG account but I thought I would let the Genie do its thing, it verifies your location and then lets me know the process could take up to 6 minutes, so I sat and watched as this thing refreshed over and over again then eventually it froze my Chrome browser. So I had to restart the process, this time in IE, I am assuming they are catering towards large support levels, but this also crashed after several minutes.
I had to resort to manual set up to get the Client up and running but for a device where they obviously put some effort into the Genie it didn't seem to cut the mustard. So I set up the TPG account manually and nothing happened, no internet, DSL connection was fine as in connected but no authentication had taken place, not even an attempt.
Remembered I had to change the ADSL type from VC to LLC and I was all set, internet on and good to go. The Genie will probably be fixed with revisions in Firmware, but that doesn't help people who are buying this today with the hopes of setting it up themselves.
Needless to say, get back in the lamp.
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