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: PIECE OF GARBAGE
Summary: 1 Stars
I made the mistake of assuming this router would work out of the box. Silly me. I upgraded to the latest firmware 1.30 and this thing still crashes frequently. The biggest problem is it kills your speed. It dropped my 6 mB/s connection to 250k/sec for no obvious reason. Pretty much killed productivity for a day in my office of 30 people. WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER NETGEAR PRODUCT!Digital camera Review: Terrible Product
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought 4 of them based on the feature set and didn't read any reviews - shame on me! Newest firmware 1.30 corrects some problems, but if you enable any advanced feature (QOS, keyword blocking, load balancing), router will soon be locked up and require a reboot. Run away from this dog.
Digital camera Review: Think carefully before purchasing this product - NETGEAR has stated it is End Of Life
Summary: 1 Stars
Purchased this recently and wanted support for it not updating to daylight savings time correctly. Was told by support that the product is End of Life and limited support.
"Hello my name is Herbert and the daylight saving time was changed last year is when it went into affect. Starting one month early. Unfortunately the FVG124G is now End Of Life and no new firmware updates will be made to the product. In fact the FVG124G has limited support available.
Regards,
Herbert 5038
NETGEAR PROSAFE SUPPORT"
Digital camera Review: This product is not worth the hassle
Summary: 1 Stars
As a reseller of Netgear products I thought I would try this out, its definitely NOT worth the money, I purchased this product back in August and have had various problems with it ever since I got it. They finally have the firmware up to par but now I'm having issues with it saving the static IP addressing I use. Forget about tech support they are worthless it takes 3 to 4 days or longer in some cases to get a response. I do not recommend this product, it seems that NETGEAR was in too big a hurry to get this product out on the market and really didn't do a good job of testing it. Buyer beware!!!! Spend a few extra bucks and get something better like 3com.Digital camera Review: Works pretty well for me...
Summary: 5 Stars
I decided to try purchasing this product even with all the negative reviews (since they were a little old) and needless to say the reviews have made me quite cautious about looking for performance and connectivity problems, but so far, other than initial setup problems it's been working well (only going on two days).
My first impression is that the device is pretty well-built (heavy) however it does get a little hot... I'm using the router with an Adelphia cable modem on WAN port 1 and BellSouth DSL on WAN port 2. The product mostly works right out of the box although you'll have to find where to set the password and change it from the defaults (I don't know why router manufacturers don't make this the first thing you have to do).
I attached my cable modem and was able to successfully connect through the router. I then attached my DSL modem and changed the internal WAN MODE setting to "Load Balance". Everything seemed to work well except WAN 2 kept being reported as DOWN... very frustrated and nervous about the reviews that I had seen I decided to call Netgear tech support... after registering the product I was quickly connected to a technician who walked me through the proper setup... turns out that I needed to change the default IP address of the router as it was conflicting with the DSL modem... I also ended up changing the IP address on my wireless router and disabling DHCP (on the wireless)...
So far so good...
I downloaded a torrent of CentOS4DVD to test the performance and sure enough I was able to realize the combined download bandwidth of both broadband connections... I also checked my remote web server access logs and saw requests for a page coming from both my Adelphia and BellSouth IP addresses... so I know load balancing is working properly... I attempted some SSL transactions and they seemed to work ok... I'm still not 100% certain how things will work with sites that use IP address verification to control sessions... so I'll have to wait and see.
I don't use VoIP and don't run a server from home but so far I can say that I am quite pleased... I hope this review helps somebody else.
I've had enough time with the Netgear FVS124G to discover its warts... simply put... protocol binding does NOT work, at least when you're trying to bind a service to a specific wan port and destination network... so far I've been elevated to Level 3 support with no resolution... I'm sure that "level 3" just means the guy in the next cubicle but it sounds impressive... FYI, for anyone in a similar situation I'm using firmware 1.33... I would still recommend the Netgear as long as your routing needs don't get *too* sophisticated... and if the Netgear ironed out the bugs in its firmware it would be perfect... the only other device I've found that performs the same features and more is the PepLink Balance 200... but it costs four times as much!