I purchased a Netgear RP614v2 router to share my broadband RoadRunner account my a second computer in my home. I cannot get the router to stay connected. Netgear tech support seems stuck in their scripted troubleshooting guide. I have a Dynamic IP, updated firmware, power cycled both cable modem and router, used the computer MAC address for the router, ipconfig /release (renew) and threatened with a hammer. Seen on another post I checked the Winxp event viewer. In system log it reads; The IP address lease 192.168.0.2 for the network card with network address 000XXXXXXXXX (my mac) has been denied by the DHCP server 192.168.0.1 (the DHCP Server sent a DHCPNACK message). My computer works fine when connected just through the cable modem. Thanks for any help.

did the problem only start occuring after firmwire update? Jaymc.co.nr

I'm not sure. I've have re-installed the firmware update but still no change in performance.

Don't do the mac address on the wan port as your local computer. I have always had mine set to "use default address" in the wan properties. I have connected these routers to both DSL and cable. With cable I am setup to get stuff dynamic on the wan port. On DSL I am setup static on ip and dns. but I think your issue is the mac address.

I tried using default when I first set it up and had the same problem. Then it was Netgear tech support that suggested setting the router mac to the pc mac. I can try default again and see what the error in the event log says.

I had this same problem with a netgear router. I exchanged it for a dlink and stopped having any problems. Occassionaly I will have problems with my dlink because of the network key. Are you using a network key?

I never saw anything in the setup about a network key. Netgear support has e-mailed some other things to try; set the MTU to a lower number(it's now at 1500), turn off the SPI function of the firewall. If I try this tonight I will let you all know if this helped.