Intel 2200BG and Netgear WGR614V5 are not compatible !!
Despite the fact that the Netgear-Rooter has “centrino-certified” on its box and 2200BG ist part of this centrino-stuff, these two devices dont work well along.
I’ve two different Netgear WGR614v5-Router at my office and my Acer-Laptop has a 2200BG-mini-PCI-WLAN-card. It has big troubles with both Netgear-Routers. I made Acer finally change my PCI-card cause I was sure that it was problem with the wlan-card and with the new card : same problem.
An external PCMCIA-wlan-card connects to the Netgear-Router without any problem. On the other side the 2200BG-card connects to a new LinkSys-Router without any problem.
So Intel 2200BG and Netgear WGR614V5 just sucks together
The problem is somewhere in the encryption, cause if using no encryption, it works fine. Using WEP or WPA, problem starts.
| Router | Networkcard | Status |
|---|---|---|
| WGR614V5 | 2200BG |  |
| WGR614V5 | WG511v2 |  |
| LINKSYS WRT54GL | 2200BG | |
| LINKSYS WRT54GL | WG511v2 | |
Please note that I tested this with two different WGR614v5-Routers and two different 2200BG-cards. I dont think I just always got faulty models. There is a flaw deep inside and it took me long time to find out.
Conclusion : The Netgear-Router is bad investment, cause you dont know which laptop wants to access it.
The problem itself appears in windows and linux. The connection is bad. You get huge packageloss (>30%) and every 4th to 10th package has extrem latency. You can easily check when doing a ping to the router, but the problem is not restricted to ICMP, but to all other protocols. If you download a webpage, you wont notice much problems beside thats its slow, but if you are trying to work on a remote terminal, you will get crazy.