I guess the day I receive a netgear adsl router is a bad day to read that Flawed Netgear Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server! It will be interesting to see what version of the firmware the product is running (before connecting it up)

What sort of ISP blocks pings and traceroutes on their routers (allegedly to cut down on virus traffic) so you have no chance of troubleshooting connectivity problems?