Comments on: Why Tire Companies Shouldn’t Make Routers

By: krcha

krcha — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:59:41 +0000

hahahahaha greatz from Serbia, i got this router few months ago… now i know im not only one with crappy router… btw Telekom Serbia also sucks with those routers

By: Ilya

Ilya — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:24:09 +0000

Very, very strange for me. A226 is one of the best RG’s I’ve ever seen or used (and there are a lot of :) ) I used it at home for more than 2 years.
The router itself is very powerful (the most expensive and fast Broadcom home platform for 2008, AFAIR), the firmware abilities are endless. You can configure QoS and firewall rules which other home routers can not dream about them. This router can handle thousands of concurrent connections. It is stable and wifi work without problem (indeed it’s range is not the best, but absolutely acceptable).
The only thing which, indeed, exists is the described problem of port forwarding rules added by UPnP protocol. Indeed, this is a bug. Not critical, but a bug. Regardig all the rest – as I told before: very, very strange :(
PS
Excuse my English, I know it is very far from been perfect :)

By: Marko

Marko — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:01:05 +0000

I hope your problem is solved… I use DRG A226G, and it works perfectly, right from the start…WI-FI and everything…

By: mves

mves — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:51:45 +0000

I had a same problem… but that wasn’t because of a bad hardware but because of bad port forwarding settings. When that was set, everything work perfectly now… even wi-fi.

So, go to the security and open port forwarding. Add new entry. Add into a local host name of your computer and for protocol choose user defined. Name Service name for example TCP and add new. Choose protocol name TCP and leave any port. Double ok and Forward to port put 53. Same procedure do for UDP. It works fine on windows XP and Windows 7 over lan ports and wi-fi was tested on notebook with Windows 7. Note that port 53 can also be 8000 or 8080. Almost same procedure goes with torrent but destination port and port forwarding port goes on defined torrent port you choose in your torrent program. I hope that this will help you :)

By: Hélder

Hélder — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:32:31 +0000

Hi,

anyone now where I can find the original firmware, por the Pirelli DRG_A223G?

Thanks

By: Hej Poland user Thank you

Hej Poland user Thank you — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:35:17 +0000

Very thank you

By: chris

chris — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:17:03 +0000

maybe its better to post the link directly:

download the Firmware Update Pirelli A226G
openrg-4.5.3.DWV_4.3.1.0026-DWV_96358.rmt at

http://www.file-upload.net/download-1499370/openrg-4.5.3.DWV_4.3.1.0026-DWV_96358.rmt.html

By: chris

chris — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:14:30 +0000

if u still need an update, i can send it to you!

By: cbg

cbg — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:25:42 +0000

The Pirelli router isn’t needed at all, since it’s only a router, not a modem. Therefore you can replace it with any router, it doesn’t matter where you live =)

On the other hand, the main problem is the automatic updates, and a non-existent domain. I don’t understand how disabling Wi-Fi would help.

Finally, last time I checked, RJ11 and RJ45 connectors were being used in North America (rather strangely) like the rest of the world. Am I missing something?

By: jayjay_21

jayjay_21 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:01:50 +0000

The best way to deal with such crappy hardware is to limit its capabilities. In this case I would definitely disable the wi-fi of the (so called) “router” and buy a new wi-fi router and use it as the main wireless router. Unfortunately in Turkey there is no router that you can connect through a ethernet cable to make the main router a wi-fi router in contrast to the cable system north america is using. Only way out is currently a time capsule