Sky netgear router DG834GT

Hi,

In the quest to reduce my pings from 80ms to any UK site (e.g. jolt.co.uk), I have had logged into the router and looked at Router Status and it indicates the firmware version is Firmware Version V1.02.28

Looking at the Netgear website, http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/DG834GT.asp
The latest version is 1.02.04

So on the Router Status page must be a typing error?
I assume this is the standard router Sky supplies to everyone?

Anyone else got this router and know if it has the latest firmware?
Anyone tried updating the firmware?

Paul

I don't think it will help, high pings seem to be as common as low ones - http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/polls/8896-pings.html?highlight=ping

If you're connected over ADSL2+ then the high ping is most likely due to interleaving. Easynet's interleaving seems to be 20ms (Bulldog was 12ms for instance), so it's adding roughly 20ms to all requests. It means my ping to jolt is 47ms on Sky, about 32ms on Bulldog ADSL2+ and 20ms without any interleaving.