It is most likely your Netgear. I have found that most of the Netgear products will NOT allow a reboot. And that I must have the receiver powered up before the Netgears are powered on, or they will not allow the receiver to use the hub/switch at all. Netgear support just sends the same old "reboot with the game console/etc already on when you power on the router/hub/switch" email when I inquire about it.

It is due to the 10mb discovery. Older Netgear 10mb hubs do not appear to have this issue. I have not been able to find an old netgear 10mb switch to test though.

Tested with cable/dsl routers, wireless routers(a,b AND g 1st gen), and their 4 port hub and 4 port switch.

ticks me off, but easily repeatably tested.

I have not yet tried plugging one into a bridgable remote wireless unit like a linksys wet11 or the new wga11 or 54 gaming appliances and trying that to get around these issues.

Ed