Great router but $$$ for VPN client may be required Beware that the native 9x/Me/NT VPN client will not work at all as they don't support IPSpec. The 2K/XP VPN client will ONLY work from a static IP address to a static IP. If you are connecting from a dynamic IP such as a dial up you will need to purchase additional software such as Netscreen-Remote or SafeNet. Hint: Netscreen is much cheaper!<...
[Netgear FVS318 Firewall - external - 8 ports - EN, Fast EN review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0  |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 10/22/2003 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (10 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Great home or small office true "firewall" and router. I have been using the Netgear FVS318 router firewall for over a month now with not one glitch. For the money, this is an amazing bargain considering it is a true SPI firewall and a certified ipsec VPN endpoint for eight tunnels included with a eight port switch! The quality of Netgear products are also commendable.We had it up and running in less than fifteen minutes. My son configured two ipsec vpn tunnels with his friends networks using Linksys VPN routers in short order and I have one conf...
[Netgear FVS318 Firewall - external - 8 ports - EN, Fast EN review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 08/17/2003 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
94% (37 of 39) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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A good, stable internal firewall (NOTE: please see new info at the end of this review)
I have been running several (5) FVS318 devices, all versions, on my internal network for many years now. I have found them to be stable and reliable and easy to configure. They also play well with other networking devices such as firewalls from other manufactures (as in setting up and maintaining secure internal VPN channels between them).
VPN performance does falloff considerably with stricter encryption, so intern...
[Netgear FVS318 Firewall - external - 8 ports - EN, Fast EN review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 6.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 12/27/2005 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
94% (18 of 19) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Work great for the price - not for newbies This device works great and has been the best of it's kind I've used for the price range. I currently access about 6 of these devices using SofteRemoteLT on a daily basis and I am very pleased with the performance. The VPN is rock solid and great for running terminal services over. If you are looking to send files over your VPN, I only got about a 6Mbps throughput rate when I used Chariot and 3DES to test it in my lab (my Linksys BEFSX41 got about 16Mbps).
For a few of my clients...
[Netgear FVS318 Firewall - external - 8 ports - EN, Fast EN review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 06/18/2004 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
93% (14 of 15) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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A great product for an advanced home user! Hello -I see that there are a mix of reviews, so I'll try to put my angle in perspective. I am an advanced home user in the respect that I am pretty knowledgeable about basic networking and have a basic lab at home with three PCs. Anyway, my needs are strictly limited to (1) providing the most security for my PCs and (2) allowing the networked PCs to see each other when needed. The FVS318 is one of the few Netgear products that passes the GRC.COM and symantec.com security scans. No po...
[Netgear FVS318 Firewall - external - 8 ports - EN, Fast EN review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 04/13/2004 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
90% (28 of 31) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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But the big flaw is low throughput Most reviews don't seem to mention a key spec - the throughput of a firewall. I just upgraded my cable connection to the new (up to) 30Mbs plan and bought an FSV318v3 firewall to use with it. Without the firewall in place, I measured about 25Mbs download speed. When I installed the firewall in between the modem and one computer, download speed went down to 6.5Mbs. I also discovered that if the "enable keyword blocking" checkbox is enabled, the throughput went down to 5Mbs, EVEN IF THERE WERE NO ...
[Netgear FVS318 Firewall - external - 8 ports - EN, Fast EN review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 4.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 03/26/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
90% (9 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Still a beta box As of today(8/26/02 @ 22:00 UCT), The KVS318 production firmware on their website is still at 1.00 . My FVS318 routers consistently drop sessions in SSH, TELNET; many SSL logins fail, many JHTML pages fail to load. HTML pages intermittently load slowly, partially or not at all. I had to remove them from our network to resume business.Their support is unresponsive. If I am able to get through on the phone the support reps are difficult to understand. Their technical support people have, in my...
[Netgear FVS318 Firewall - external - 8 ports - EN, Fast EN review by "e-billy" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | "e-billy" | | Review Date: | 08/26/2002 | | User Location: | Midwest U.S. | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
86% (31 of 36) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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It isn't ready yet. This is the second time I have written a review on the FVS318. For some reason the first did not show up.I certainly hope BUY.COM does not limit reviews of this product to favorable reviews only. I purchased three Netgear FVS318As and installed the first one. The installation and configuration were easy. However, I was no longer able to access several web sites. Netgear support instructed me to turn off keyword blocking in the filter as that was causing problems. I was still unable to acce...
[Netgear FVS318 Firewall - external - 8 ports - EN, Fast EN review by Paul Bohn can be read at buy.com] | | buy.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Paul Bohn | | Review Date: | 08/11/2002 | | User Location: | Mount Sterling, Ohio | | Review From: | User Review |  | | |
85% (18 of 21) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Certainly the best near $100-$150 firewall/VPN router available. I'm well acquainted with all three hardware versions (1,2,3) of this router. This, also, is my top recommendation to anyone wanting an easy to install, no maintenance security device for home or small business use (under 25 users).
No other product I sell in the under $100 category can even come close to this router. In fact, the next step upgrade would be an over $300 router which all home and most small businesses would not buy, when you have all the performance and features you n...
[Netgear FVS318 Firewall - external - 8 ports - EN, Fast EN review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 06/23/2005 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
85% (18 of 21) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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This is NOT a VPN router!
[Netgear FVS318 Firewall - external - 8 ports - EN, Fast EN review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 03/12/2004 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
81% (9 of 11) Users Found This Review Helpful |