| Reviews : Cisco WRV200 Wireless-G VPN Router - RangeBooster |
Technical Details
- Former Linksys Business Series
- Secure wireless access for small offices
- Supports four 10/100 wired connections and 802.11g wireless connections for fast network transfers
- Supports network segmentation for increased security and management
- WAN Ports - N/A
Product Description
The Linksys Small Business Series is the affordable, reliable,high quality networking solution that helps you do businesssmarter. Secure and easy to install and maintain, it is built togrow with your business.Enable a wireless network in a reliable, intelligent and SNMPmanaged way for your small business. The intuitive webbasedinterface allows you to easily set up the features of theWRV200. SNMP gives you the ability to remotely manage andmonitor the device.The VPN router gives your business multiple SSID and VLANsfor traffic separation and enhanced QOS funtionality forimproved quality voice/video. With support for Wireless QoS(WMM) and wired QoS (port prioritization), consistent voice andvideo quality is maintained throughout your business.The 10 IPsec QuickVPN tunnels with a throughput at 30 Mbpsgives your mobile workers a secure and easy-to-use way tostay connected.Similar Products
Customer Reviews
By Matthew Hayden (Northern California USA)
After our previous home wireless died (it was a Linksys WRT54G, early model, and worked very well), we purchased this device hoping to use the VPN and multi-SSID features.
Unfortunately, despite good hardware, it hasn't delivered - the firmware is breathtakingly bad (we're on .39, the terminal release). It reboots on a regular basis, loses settings, loses wireless connectivity, doesn't properly allocate IP addresses properly in DHCP (more IP address conflicts caused by the router than with any other device I've used) and more. The VPN dies after half an hour like clockwork. The box can't acquire settings from Comcast without being restarted half a dozen times.
I'm an IT professional and am used to configuring far more complex wireless devices than this. I've debugged it, upgraded the firmware, and tuned the settings, all to no avail. It's fruitless, and ultimately, futile, to attempt to configure this device to be reliable and to accomplish the feature set advertised.
Customer support is terrible. The techs are broadly unfamiliar with the device and its function and make apologies for what's going wrong. They've suggested that I monitor the Comcast line to determine whether or not it's going down, and while Comcast is no prize-winner, I have done so and it goes down a LOT less than the router. The device is simply unstable due to poor firmware.
Not certain what will replace it, but it will be replaced, and soon, and the replacement product will not, unfortunately, be Linksys. I had hoped that the Cisco acquisition of Linksys would improve quality, but the opposite sadly appears to be true.
By Deepak Amin
good stuff. took a while to configure. Linksys tech support was no help. i had to get professional help
By F. Cox (Rogers AR)
Easy to set up and secure. Has a good range but wished it was a little stronger on the signal out put.
By J. Doehler (White Lake, MI USA)
Pro: good WiFi range, configuration options galore.
Con: frequent reboots necessary, unreliable WiFi connections, disappointing speeds, VPN not well thought out.
I have used this product for about six months and have become aware of its severe shortcomings when I recently switched from DSL to cable. The WiFi range is good, but I have not been able to use it at any speed higher than 802.11b. Any attempt to use a higher speed would cause the speed to drop to a crawl, equivalent to that of a 28K modem. I have tried 3 different laptops (one VAIO and two new Dells), even bringing the laptops to within a few feet of the unit. Even in the 802.11b mode, the newest Dell experiences connection losses after about 5 minutes of WiFi use. I am located in a sparsely populated area, so interference from other RF sources is not an issue.
After a few hours of WiFi use, the unit floods my LAN with IP packets, requiring a reboot.
The VPN is basically useless. When connecting to the LAN from the outside, the packets are shaped to appear to come from a different subnet than my LAN (including the WRV200) is configured for, so all the firewalls installed on every local PC and server reject them. I can reconfigure the firewalls to accept these packets, but having to relax firewall rules defeats the purpose of a VPN.
Switching from DSL to cable did not increase my (wired) Internet access speed when using this router: it is incapable of handling the higher speeds cable modems deliver. Compared to a Netgear router that has now replaced the WRV200, the WRV200 delivers only 1/2 to 1/8 the speed, depending on how that speed is measured. The reason is clear: the WAN side connects only at 10Mb/sec half-duplex, which is ancient technology.
By Joseph W. Webster
This product stinks. I bought it because it had SNMP capability and I wanted to do some network monitoring with it. It constantly disconnects from my DSL service. I had a Linksys WRT54G that never had a problem. I do not recommend this product.
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