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Linksys WRV200 Wireless-G VPN Router with RangeBooster | List Price: $98.23
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Brand: Linksys
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 3 years warranty
Features: - LAN Ports - 4
- WAN Ports - N/A
- RS-232 Port - N/A
Continually needs reboot - not dependable at all [Posted on 2008-06-02]
Talk about a pile of junk. I thought Linksys would be better after Cisco as well, my previous Linksys experience was poor so switch all of my equipment to a different brand which worked perfectly for 4 years until a recent failure. When it came time to update, that company is no longer making routers (bummer) so based on my VPN needs decided to go with the Linksys WRV200. What a mistake that was! The thing was horrible to set up and drops the connection many times throughout the day. All computers and the router itself needs to be re-booted to restore service. I am an IT professional and still these problems persist. Of course just make things more difficult, it may work fine for 1-2 days then just go down. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT! Consider it as representative of Linksys, perhaps that will get their attention. BUY SOMETHING ELSE!
So far so good. Easy to use and conf. [Posted on 2008-07-08]
Personally hv had this item for few months by now, and it pretty much matches my expectation so far. It's easy to conf., and surely easy to use. I don't need to dig into the user manual and study it for finding how to use it. That's why I'm giving out 5 starts on this one.
Not even sure it deserves one star [Posted on 2008-07-09]
I've owned several other linksys products and I've been pretty happy with them. So happy that I blindly ordered the WRV200 thinking that it had the features I need and it should just work as advertised ... I was wrong. I battled with it for a few days and boxed it until the new updated firmware came out. Unfortunately it's more of the same. If you want to save yourself some pain and frustration, look around for something else.
Full of Features and Defects [Posted on 2008-08-12]
This product suffers from a wide and severe range of problems. Other reviews are correct - Linksys customer service will not be helpful. When I contact them they refused to even admit there were any defects with the product.
The problems I've encountered follow:
++++ The WRV200 will reset itself to the factory default at random times.
++++ The WRV200 DHCP clients table displays the remaining lease time where the host name should be. That's of course, if you're lucky enough for it to report ANY host names at all.
++++ The web interface will sometimes be a blank page after approximately 6 days of constant operation. The only way to fix this is to reboot the device.
++++ The VPN client has issues on Windows Vista.
++++ When operating the device on mixed mode (wireless g, b simultaneously) some wireless b devices (Palm LifeDrive) simply can not connect. You are forced to operate the WRV200 as G or B only.
++++ The firmware doesn't even do what the built-in documentation says. Deleting an entry from the DHCP clients table does nothing. The documentation says that it severs the connection.
I believe that all of these problems stem from the firmware. All of these issues can likely be resolved if the quality of the firmware increases.
WRV200 [Posted on 2008-08-27]
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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