| Value |  4.5 | | Performance |  5 | | Ease of Use |  4 | | Overall Satisfaction | 4.5 |
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4 of 5 Dual WAN GREAT! VPN Bad :( Tuesday, January 01, 2008
A Customer from Wilber, NE
I originally bought this router for the dual WAN feature. I was able to use cable and DSL. Pretty much plug in and go. There are many other features on this router that don't even compare to the SOHO routers most home users have.
I have been messing around with the QuickVPN, but have not got it to go. I have gotten the PPTP vpn server up and was able to connect. Hopefully they'll come out with some firmware to correct the VPN as I have searched online and many people are having issues with it.
But like I said, I mainly bought it for the dual wan connectivity.
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5 of 5 Does the job Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Rob Gundling from Lake Mary, FL
The RV042 does a good job of being a reliable Dual WAN router. You can setup certain ports to be bound to specific connections if you so choose (which is nice). The quickly obvious weaknesses are not that bad: crummy reporting and email notifications (they are worthless, really) and your dual wan choices are not explained very well... it's almost too simple. All you need to know is that the default "Smart Setting" both load balances and sets itself up for wan redundancy. There's nothing that explains this... it just does it. Been in operation at a clients site for 2 weeks now with no problems, so I'm happy. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Good Product Friday, February 09, 2007
A Customer from Oakland Gardens, New York
It is easy to install, maintenance and update firmware.
It has dual WAN interfaces, which allows you to have 2 different DSL/Cable providers to set one as standby. Or you can set one WAN port as DMZ port.
It supports NAT multiple public Static IPs to multiple private Static IPs. This is very helpful if your ISP gives you more than 1 static IP.
It is easy to get old router configuration to the new router, by just import its old router's backup file. All settings will remain as what as the old router did. I ordered this to replace my old same router, which was out of order after 2 year service.
Now its price is cheap too at buy.com.
It is a good router for a small and medium size business or residential network application. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Great VPN Head with some VPN Knowledge Wednesday, December 27, 2006
oj.utter@mvpmt.com from Columbus, NE
This is a great VPN router with the ability to have 50+ VPN connecdtions. The setup between this router and another Linksys router was a little difficult due to different terminology between the 2 but after it was completed it worked great. We are connected to linksys and sonicwall end point routers and also are using PPTP software VPN connections. Overall value of this router for price and it ability is well worth the difficultly in the inital setup. If you have experience with VPN setup then this will be a breeze. Was this review helpful?
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5 of 5 Great VPN ability Wednesday, September 01, 2004
GLS from Cleveland Ohio
We bought 2 of these based upon a Linksys tech recommendation for a hardware VPN and firewall combination. We use them to share files between my SOHO and corporate office. Being my first VPN install, it took a while of reading and trying but after figuring out the correct IP numbers, they work 100% as expected. A very nice feature is the more "pro" look interface and very detailed logging ability.
IMO: these are a step up from the standard blue cased Linksys components you normally see. All steel cases, more detailed menu options, beefier powersupply, etc.
Overall, I give this router and strong A grade. Had the documentation and help files been more detailed, it would get a full A+.
BTW: my only stumbling point was in finally figuring out (tollfree call to techsupport) that the "shared access key" cannot contain any numbers, it's alpha only which the doc's forgot to mention.
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