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Forgot to mention that didn't I?
It's the teeny hole which probably has no markings on it at all. Sometimes on the front, usually on the back, sometimes near the power socket, sometimes the other side. But you've found it now so all good.
I found an ADSL router without a reset button once. Scary.


The reset button is a 'restore factory settings' type reset. The settings are stored in some kind of NVRAM.

The DG834* routers are damn good. And they run Linux. (You noticed the small piece of paper in the box with a GNU GPL printed on it, right? ) You can even telnet in and get a BusyBox shell if you know the secret command.

As for file sharing not liking DHCP, I doubt that. Does your file-sharing program support UPNP? If so, the router also supports UPNP (but it may be disabled by default) and this allows programs to assign incoming ports to themselves automagically.

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Andrew.

Does it run windows? *AHEM*

As for memory testing, Memtest86+ is quite good at that. You can download it as an ISO image (a tiny, tiny ISO image) and boot from the CD. I had a computer where the memory was loose or had a similar bad connection, when I jolted the PC lots of errors appeared.

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Andrew.

As far as your security goes, go for WPA TKIP every time, it enables 'real' passwords, as opposed to hex strings, and is supposedly more secure.