Buy it !! Arrived quickly, I had read a previous review that recommended that one make sure that the latest firmware was loaded on Netgear FVS114 ProSafe VPN Firewall. The first thing I did was to update the firmware to the latest version. Plugged it into my network environment, I have not noticed any problems. Works great. I would recommend it.
[Netgear FVS114 ProSafe VPN Firewall 8 with 4 Port 10/100Mbps Switch review by A Customer can be read at buy.com] | | buy.com Rating: 10.0  |
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| Reviewed by: | A Customer | | Review Date: | 11/06/2008 | | User Location: | Farmington, UT | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
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Buy only if browsing the web...everything else crashes it 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 fir...
[Netgear FVS114 ProSafe VPN Firewall 8 with 4 Port 10/100Mbps Switch review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 06/09/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review |  | | |
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Never had a problem 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 get...
[Netgear FVS114 ProSafe VPN Firewall 8 with 4 Port 10/100Mbps Switch review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/13/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
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Not a good choice 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 ...
[Netgear FVS114 ProSafe VPN Firewall 8 with 4 Port 10/100Mbps Switch review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/04/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
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Avoid it! This would be a great little device if it worked reliably, but it doesn't. It came with the latest firmware, found that the device locks up occasionally and must be rebooted. Downgraded to older firmware as recommended on several forums, still has lock up problem.
[Netgear FVS114 ProSafe VPN Firewall 8 with 4 Port 10/100Mbps Switch review by Gerry can be read at buy.com] | | buy.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Gerry | | Review Date: | 01/02/2008 | | User Location: | Kent City, MI | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
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