Sky Netgear DG834GT-1skuk

These "tweaks" are currently only compatible with Firefox and Internet Explorer, unless otherwise indicated.

DG834GT Detailed Stats  alternate version. (This version should also work in Opera and Safari)

SF: Super Frame count   G.dmt framing CRC: CRC error count K: No. of data bytes in DMT frame ES: Errored Seconds (Seconds with 1 or more CRC errors) R: No. of redundant (parity) bytes per Reed Solomon codeword SES: Severely Errored Seconds S: No. of data frames per RS codeword RS: Reed Solomon codewords (FEC Data Frames) D: Interleave depth RSCorr: RS Correctable errors (aka FEC) RSUnCorr: RS Uncorrectable errors    ADSL2 framing LOF: Loss Of Framing MSGc: No. of bytes in overhead channel message Delay: delay due to interleaving (milliseconds) B: No. of bytes in Mux Data Frame INP: Impulse Noise Protection (milliseconds) M: No. of Mux Data Frames per Reed Solomon codeword PER: Overhead channel period (msec) T: No. of Mux Data Frames proceeding a synchronization byte OR: Bit rate of the overhead channel R: No. of redundant (parity) bytes per Reed Solomon codeword HEC: ATM checksum header error count S: Ratio of RS codeword over PMD Data Frame length LOS: Loss Of Signal L: No. of bits in PMD Data Frame UAS: Unavailable Seconds (No Signal) D: Interleave depth

Enable telnet          Open telnet console      to disable type "killall utelnetd" in the console. (Enable telnet should also work in Opera and Safari)

Extract ADSL Password and Username (Should work in Opera)

PPP debug mode   logs PPP authentication attempts and LCP echo requests. Note this will cause your PPP connection to drop and reconnect. The PPP log can get very large if you leave it enabled.   

View PPP log file  (note that the PPP log contains your username and a hash of your password)

Delete PPP log file and cease PPP logging

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Target Noise Margin

Override Target Noise Margin % of default target margin  86%=6dB, 100%=7dB(default), 114%= 8db, 180%=12.6db... (also works in Opera)

Force G.DMT (ADSL1)

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Connection Table (ip_conntrack)

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DNS Settings

Reboot the Router, or restart the PPP connection for DNS changes to take effect. If you input invalid DNS servers, you will be unable to access the internet - to restore the original setting click the "use ISP allocated Domain Name Servers (default)" button above. This change can also be cleared by resetting the router to factory settings using the reset button in the back


This page must be downloaded and opened locally for these options to be enabled.

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Add entries to router's hosts file

These settings are not particularily useful unless your connection is 100% stable as the Netgear's host file & its dns server will be reset every time the PPP connection is re-established after a drop.

Enter IP address <space> hostname (eg. 192.168.0.10 mel.lan)

192.168.0.



(doesn't survive connection drop or reboot)

Reset DNS Server

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Router based "speed test"

If you think poor speeds are caused by your PC or wireless link - This will download a file to the router and time the download (if this test fails to work choose a download file with a shorter URL) Results are only a very rough estimate.

Input the URL of a file to download and its filesize (url must be quite short).

Please be patient, the page will only open once the file download has completed.

Download url

       Filesize BytesKilobytesMegabytes

(also works in Opera)


Alternative test: Downloads and displays the start and end times so that you can calculate the speed more accurately

Download url {44668/(end-start) Kbps}