Netgear FVS318NA 8 Port Cable / DSL VPN FireWall Router

Review by Auri Rahimzadeh, Author, Hacking the PSP, www.hackingpsp.com

I've been using an FVS318v1 for three years now. The system just keeps working. I bought a second as a spare, just in case, and have never needed it. While the VPN capabilities are a little outdated.

I haven't noticed any performance issues with the router. It comes with a 10/100 switch of decent quality, although nothing on the order of a "top-shelf" Cisco router. The interface is clean and easy to use, without many of the fancier bells and whistles available even on lower cost units.

So why do I use it? One word: Reliability. Unlike less-expensive routers, especially compared to the solutions from Linksys, the FVS318 just keeps running and performing to expectation. Really, that's all you can ask of a router/firewall solution. Other consumer/home-office routers I've owned have died within six months of install, especially Linksys products (even moreso after their Cisco...Read more

Be careful! Netgear is not telling people that there are 3 versions of the FVS318 (v1, v2 and v3)! Version 3 has a better CPU and uses a different firmware (v3.0). I feel cheated! Because Netgear sells all the older FVS318 as though they are all the same! Not the newest v3 model! What a low life company somebody should sue them. If the Netgear FVS318 has a new cpu then give it a new model number! But they don't, so most of us are buying earlier out-of-date models! Those of us who thought we were buying the latest model were being scammed and defrauded! Shame on Netgear!