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- Netgear ProSafe FVS336G VPN Appliance - 6 Port - Firewall Throughput: 60Mbps
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The Netgear ProSafe Dual WAN Gigabit Firewall with SSL & IPsec VPN offers the best of both worlds by offering two types of virtual private network (VPN) tunnels, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and IP security (IPsec), for optimal secure connection to your network.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
By Karen Holmes
We have a T1 on one Wan port and a Broadband cable modem connection on the other, set to load balance. The router works perfectly and I've seen our throughput increase and maintain stability compared to our Edimax router which this replaces. A nightly FTP push I do used to take anywhere from 8 to 15 minutes. Now it takes 6 minutes and 20-40 seconds - very stable. Firewall blocking is very good, but unfortunately you have to make a rule per wan port. I wish they would include an option to select both wan ports when creating a rule. Also, the new rule appears at the bottom of the list and you have to move it up one-by-one to the top, which is a slow process if you have many rules. This can be overcome by utilizing the command line interface via telnet, although it's cumbersome (fw/rules/lanWan/inbound to get to the section, followed by the move command - all case sensitive). I have the FVS336G for one company I support, and the FVS336Gv2 on the other company. The only difference I see is the connections on the G are in back and it has a built in power supply, while the Gv2 has the connections on the front and it has an external power brick.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
By S. Rosenberg
Purchased to setup VPN between two offices about 10 miles apart connected via 30down/15Mbps up, Cablevision service.Handles 10 PCs at remote office connected to a Win 2003 server using SQL data base, and transfering 500K pdf files between locations. PDFs open in about 2 sec.Setup is not trivial, and requires some understanding of networking. Negear support was great.Works well with IPsec Router to Router.Configure each Router with Static IPs. Set the LAN subnets to be different at each end. ie, 192.168.1.x at one end and 192.168.0.x at the other.Then run the VPN Wizard, enter your passphrase for encryption, and your done!You can use SSl to connect to each router via a Browser, if you configure user security to enable remote administration. Documentation is fair.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
By The Dead Senator
I am a longtime Netgear ProSafe user. This is probably my fourth device over the course of a dozen years. They have mostly worked well with some faults. Typically, I have been able to work with the product and make do. Netgear is like that for me. I make do. Just well enough to return.This FVS336GV2 appears that it will provide the same experience. It works fairly well, with the interface being a tad slow. Internet roll-over has hung once or twice, but eventually works. No bonus points for speed there. No issues with throughput, yet.As expected, there is a fly in the ointment with the FVS336GV2: when creating custom services, there is no TCP/UDP selection. There is only one or the other (and ICMP). You cannot create one TCP rule and one UDP rule with the same name and port set. They must be named differently. I am migrating from an older Netgear router and have dozens of custom rules that many of which are TCP/UDP. I will have to review all these services to determine which protocol to choose. If I find services that use both TCP and UDP over the same ports, I'll need to create two services with different names. This increases the number of firewall rule entries, as well. For example, if you like to blanket-block MS protocols, it will require four total entries to add services and rules for TCP/UDP ports 137-139 (netbios). Having dozens of rules magnifies the problem while configuring the device. After initial setup, rule changes are minimal generally.If you make an error on a service creation, and then delete it, it still enumerates the service ID number. Minor nit.I'd like a firmware update that may mend this 'flaw' while the device is still popular (there are some updates already). I have found firmware updates to fall off sharply with Netgear as they move on to new hardware faster than I can.Otherwise it's a-ok.
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