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Epicurus.com - NETGEAR FVS114 ProSafe VPN Firewall 8 with 4-Port 10/100 Mbps Switch
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List Price: $97.00
Our Price: $63.99
Your Save: $ 33.01 ( 34% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Netgear
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Netgear
EAN: 0606449040494
Feature: NAT router allows for secure Virtual Private Networks between business locations
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Label: Netgear
Manufacturer: Netgear
Model: FVS114NA
Publisher: Netgear
Studio: Netgear
Warranty: NETGEAR lifetime warranty
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Features
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NAT router allows for secure Virtual Private Networks between business locations
Business-class security includes SPI firewall and an Intrusion Detection System
Eight dedicated VPN tunnels to protect links between locations
Backed by lifetime warranty
Device measures 5.54 x 1.05 x 3.92 inches (WxHxD)
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Editorial Reviews:
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Want strong security at a small price? NETGEAR's ProSafe VPN Firewall 8 FVS114 provides business class protection. Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) stops major Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Intrusion Detection alerts you to hackers and attacks. Up to 8 simultaneous Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections protect links between business locations, encrypting all traffic as it traverses the Internet - perfect for telecommuters and remote offices. With 4 10/100 Mbps auto-sensing, Auto Uplink switched LAN ports and Network Address Translation (NAT) routing, up to 253 users can access your broadband connection at the same time.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Buy only if browsing the web...everything else crashes it
Comment: The only stable firmware for this product is the 1.01 version. All subsequent firmware releases (1.06, 1.10) are unstable. The nat does not clean up unused tcp connections and will die under heavy loads (heavy being running something such as eMule for more than a day). The router software is extraordinarily inefficient; it cannot juggle streaming media and regular browsing. You must do one or the other, but not both at once. This could probably be an awesome product if there were aftermarket firmware available, but since it is a closed product you must rely on Netgear to fix the bugs, which they seem unwilling to do. Save yourself a headache and create your own firewall with a mini-pc (at least you can change the underlying software!) or get a different product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Never had a problem
Comment: I have 4 of these, one has been running for several years. No problems at all. These front our Internet connection, and we do not use them as switches, just firewalls. That means we have the Internet connection plugged into one port, and a switch plugged into another port. The computers, printers, etc. are plugged into the the switches, not this unit. The router sits between these units and the Internet. (The reason we use so many of them is that we sublet our office space: each tenant gets their own firewall so that no one can bust into the other tenant's network.)
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We've never had any problems with them, and so, at least as firewalls, they do the job. Switches are cheap: just buy a netgear 16 port switch and put it behind these. They worked fine for us, without any firmware upgrades or anything. We just take them out of the box, set them up as DHCP servers and leave the firewall protection at the default and we've never had a single problem with any of the 4 of them we own.
If people are having problems, I suspect the switch capabilities could be the issue.
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Summary: Not a good choice
Comment: Beware, if you want to use the VPN you also need to buy the Netgear proprietary software. This is bad - they should include it in the price of the router. I did not realize this when I bought the router, but it does say so if you read the fine print and look at the diagram.
However I found the basic DSL PPPoE connection to degrade over a day or so, and require reboot for performance, or it stops, and you are forced to reboot it. So given this, I never spent the extra money to buy their VPN software. I was surprised about this since I used this to replace a Linksys WRT54G which has worked flawlessly for years.
(I bought a Linksys RVS4000 instead, and could not get it's VPN going either. Finally I bought a Draytek router, which are hard to find in the US. This is working really well - but not for the amateur - the setup is very sophisticated and needs great expertise. But once you set it up - it works very well, to my relief.)
Customer Rating:
Summary: From very bad to great..
Comment: I purchased the FVS114 over six months ago. At first, it dropped the internet connection all the time. I had to rebooted it several times a day - sometimes three or four times in a row. I contacted Netgear support and did not get good advice. So in December 2007 I removed it from my network. I figured, oh well, I can make a years worth of lemonade with this thing (it was such a lemon).
Netgear did follow-up with a survey asking how they had done delivering support (that was very nice of them). I did not respond at first, after a few months I decided I would go ahead and fill out the survey. I told them they had a problem they were not addressing very well (IMHO). That got me another response from Netgear, and a quick one at that. They made the new firmware available to me. It was easy to download and install. BAM! The FVS114 rocks now.
I have had no problems at all over the past two months! I am very happy with the FVS114 and would purchase more products from Netgear in the future.
The FVS114 has a lot of good features. Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) Firewall and Network Address Translation (NAT) routing are the two features that made me select this product over any others. Now that it is working properly, it delivers exactly what they say, "business class protection".
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Summary: Netgear Warranty is Meaningless
Comment: I have used Netgear products for many years and they used to work for at least the warranty period. Not so with the current crop of Netgear products. I had been using the FVS114 router for 7 months when it started to frequently drop internet connection. The unit supposedly has a "lifetime" warranty. The problem is so severe that I have had to retire the unit. Contacting Netgear for an RMA or technical support is a fruitless task. Don't waste your money on Netgear - buy something else.
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