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Does a pretty good job. Older technology, so you don't have wifi apps to control from phone, and track what malware is coming at your system. Upload speeds did not increase as I hoped.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Over all good 8 port gigabit but some flaw with the WiFi that is very weak. In fact it does not cover all my house and sometime we lose it all and have to reset the unit for the wifi to work again... Thank you, Jean
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I really like the price of this unit. Compared to other routers with a similar price tag, you get a lot of bang for the buck. I have not had any of the reliability issues that I have heard some people complain about, but I tend to keep my equipment cooler than most people do, (give it room to breath, don't ever block the cooling vents on the sides/top). On the negative side, I hate the fact that when I updated the firmware I lost all of my settings, even though I backed them up. Apparently the backups from the old firmware are not compatible with the new firmware, dumb but not too big a deal. I was also disappointed by the limit of only 35 blocked keywords. I wanted to feed it a MUCH longer list than that, but oh well. I also wish that the VPN was compatible with the windows XP VPN client. Instead you have to pay for the Netgear client (sigh). You don't have to be an expert to configure it, but it helps if you know what you're doing. Over all one gets what one pays for, and in this case you get a really decent not quite business class firewall for the same price as a lot of junky, buggy, all in one units that tend to be disappointing. Just don't expect it to compete with a Cisco Pix or a Sonicwall.Read full review
I called up Netgear about purchasing their client software because I have systems at home running XP, Vista, and Windows 7. They wanted 70 dollars for their software. Just for a single license. And it doesn't even support Windows 7 yet. This isn't a review for Netgear support. If it was it would be rated poor. Their support is horrible and they wouldn't upgrade my licenses to the latest compatible version for Windows Vista (They just started supporting it in VPN software) and I bought the licenses when Vista was already out. Pretty shady.... But anyways so I found this VPN Router / Firewall device and it was less than a single client software license. I figured why not? I got the device and set it up. It was pretty straight forward if you are familiar with setting up VPN's. I use their highest level model at the office I connect to and everything went pretty smooth. The connection seems to remain pretty consistent. Speed is decent concidering I am using encryption between the offices. I wish there were more advanced firewall functionality. I would be upset if I paid full price for it because of the lack in firewall filters and logging features that I normally would prefer to use. But for the used price I can't beat it. And it beats a single client license and now all of my desktop systems can connect over the VPN without any problems. So I rate this product good.Read full review
This is FVS318v3 (with firmware 3.0_28), I used them for VPN to connect two LANs that one LAN with static public IP and the other LAN with dynamic public IP. It works fine but not as stable as FVS318v1 (with firmware 2.4) which can run for months without reset. However, v3 offers 100M WAN port while v1 offers 10M WAN port. But the v3 is ok, which has a setting that I can set it automatically re-boot daily at the time I specified. With two of these devices, you do NOT need VPN software installed at client computers to have the VPN connections. That is a huge plus for these VPN routers. If you only have one of it at the LAN with static public IP, you can still VPN to it by using VPN client software such as ShrewSoft.
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