NETGEAR FVS124G ProSafe Gigabit VPN Firewall 25 by Netgear
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Digital camera reviews of NETGEAR FVS124G ProSafe Gigabit VPN Firewall 25
Digital camera Review: GREAT with latest firmware
Summary: 5 Stars
I had some issues at first but is now GREAT with latest firmware. I used this for load balance with two internet connections. It has done all I have asked from it. Has the ability to set both connections rules separately. This way I could have it always use one of the connections for said port (or ip address) and block it on the other. Also has a GREAT ability to monitor bandwidth and stop using one of the connections when you reach said limit. Gigabit a plus for local data transfers!Digital camera Review: Great Gigabit VPN Router
Summary: 5 Stars
This router has everything you might need want out of a router. Dual WAN is great for internet backup. VPN for connecting offices. Gigabit for the really important people to get higher speeds to the server.Digital camera Review: I'd give it zero stars if they'd let me...
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm no newb to networking products. I've put together all of my family and friends home networks and am the Chief Technologist (as well as Lead Application Architect) for my company (i.e. I'm responsible for all hardware and networking as well as guiding the future of the company in the infrastructure and application development realms) and I never could get this thing to connect to our cable modem (Insight). I updated to the latest firmware and everything. It would reflect that the connection was made, but never was able to resolve any domains using its own diagnostics in the web interface, much less pass any data through.
I did get it working on the DSL line (Zoomtown / Cinti Bell), and even had the VPN connections to our remote sites up. For all of about three hours I held out hope that maybe, with an after-hours phone call, we could use this piece of junk. then, at 11:30am, a little over 3 hours after I brought it up, it crashed. First, it stopped resolving the DNS entries so the systems on the LAN could only see internet sites they had DNS entries cached for, then it lost the VPN connections, finally, it stopped routing any traffic. A reboot brought it all back for another couple hours when the same thing happened again.
We are a business of about 12 people, not some home, and the "ProSafe" line is supposed to be for the small business, but not this SPOC (Google it if you don't know the acronym).
It went back to Amazon and the XINCOM Twin WAN VPN Router is on its way. Hopefully it will work as advertised as I really don't want to spend a grand or more just load balance and failover our two WAN connections.
Digital camera Review: It works! Finally ! Can buy
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased this product on november 2006 and spent loads of time shuffling between my service providers to try to get it to work as seemingly, the hardware seemed fine and as I was informed by netgear support who by the way were very helpful, that there must be some dhcp issue on my end and need to sort that out. Finally after letting it gather dust for a couple of months, I again contacted netgear support in febuary, after going through possible fixes they put me on a long hold, transferred my call overseas, (change in accent) and the person I spoke to helped me fix it up! He was very patient and well informed, he told me that `lan dhcp issues' were solved in the jan firmware update, so once updating the firmware things were finally working!
I purchased this solely with the intentions of load-balancing with two broadband connections and its working great right now! I have the netgear plugged into my linksys wifi router running in routing mode not gateway. This is a review from India, things working fine here. If your intentions are dual-wan bridging with decent firewall support, then can buy.
Digital camera Review: It's WORTHLESS until you upgrade
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm the ISP for an entire condo complex. I need military-tight security and solid professional gear that can take heavy traffic. I bought Netgear because it had a long warranty, a great price and the dual WAN ports sounded great for a mission critical environment. With 4 gigabit LAN ports I was ready for heavy traffic.
Before installing it on site, I hooked it up at home and got NOTHING! It'll tell you you've got a valid IP and DNS on your WAN but this brick wouldn't going anywhere on the 'net!
I fought with it for two hours until I went back to my old router, downloaded firmware 1.33 and applied it. Suddenly everything worked. The box finally did what I bought it for!
I'm grateful the latest firmware straighten everything out but how could they have let anything so AWFUL get out the door in the first place? They should stick a warning label right on the box: Load firmware 1.33 FIRST!