Advantages: Good features, VPN support, 10/100 WAN port Disadvantages: Challenging documentation
...Cable connection. The Netgear FVS114 manages to bring a 10/100 Mbps WAN port equipped router to the party with a whole bunch of extra features. As the box proudly proclaims, it combines 8 VPN tunnels, a router, 4 port switch and SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) Firewall in to one compact device in the familiar dark blue metal case that Netgear are famous for. With support for 253 users, there's a lot of power here for the price.
What's in the box
... ...the online help page at Netgear but that just returned a page with 'coming soon' on it. A quick search on Netgear's site did find the full manual in PDF format which was duly downloaded. Having finally tracked it down, I can report it's a good manual with everything you need to know.
Teething Problems
One odd problem I encountered was that during the first few days of testing, it kept losing the external WAN link. It seemed like it wasn't renewing ...
ilaskey 13.02.2007
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