TRENDnet TEW-659BRV 300Mbps Wireless N VPN Router

Product Review

The 300Mbps Wireless N VPN Router, model TEW-659BRV, provides the ability to define up to 80 Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnels, all while generating a high speed wireless network. IPSec, L2TP, and PPTP VPN pass-through sessions are supported and a configurable firewall ensures the highest level of security. This router provides powerful 300Mbps wireless connectivity and a WPS button on the front of the router takes that hassle out of connecting to it. Four Fast Ethernet ports on the back of the router help extend a wired network. Advanced Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) and Network Address Translation (NAT) encryption protects your digital network. Advanced features include GRE tunneling, advanced Quality of Service (QoS) controls, Domain filtering, packet filtering, and more..4 x 10/100 Mbps Auto-MDIX LAN ports.1 x 10/100 Mbps WAN port (Internet).Compatible with most popular cable/DSL Internet service providers using Dynamic/Static IP, PPPoE, PPTP and L2TP protocols. Firewall protection with Network Address Translation (NAT), Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI), and Denial of Service (DoS) prevention. Supports up to 80 PPTP/L2TP/IPsec tunnels. Supports up to 100 PPTP/L2TP/IPsec VPN pass through sessions. Supports up to 8 Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnels. Access Control: Virtual Servers, MAC/IP Packet Filters, URL/Keyword Filters, Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) host, and One-to-One NAT.Set device time using Network Time Protocol (NTP) and define schedules for Wireless, Virtual Server, Packet Filters, and Quality of Service (QoS).Broadcast up to 4 SSIDs with different wireless encryption. Supports Access Point (AP) and Wireless Distribution System (WDS) modes. Quality of Service (QoS) traffic prioritization via IP/(TCP/UDP) Ports with 3 priority queues and wireless Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) support. Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for auto discovery and support for device configuration of Internet applications

Product Features

Define up to 80 Virtual Private Network tunnels
IPSec, L2TP, and PPTP VPN pass-through support
300Mbps Wireless N
One-touch WPS wireless connection
Compatible with most popular cable/DSL Internet service providers using Dynamic/Static IP, PPPoE, PPTP and L2TP protocols
Complete wireless security with WPA/WPA2, WPA/WPA2-PSK, and WEP
Firewall protection with Network Address Translation (NAT), Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI), and Denial of Service (DoS) prevention
One-touch Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) button connects wireless clients quickly

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review

(1 customer review)

Not Reliable For Me, March 13, 2012

Dan Shearer - See all my reviews

This review is from: TRENDnet TEW-659BRV 300Mbps Wireless N VPN Router (Personal Computers)

I've had the TEW-659BRV for about 2 weeks now. It has a nice feature set, but every day it drops connections and loses computers on the LAN. I have to reboot the router to recover. Some kind of a routing problem I would guess. It seemed to be a little more frequent if I used the multiple SSID and DHCP reservation features. I bought this router because the Cisco RV-120 was poorly reviewed, but I don't think this one is any better. It is on it's original firmware however, so maybe there's hope in the future.

The static IP/DHCP reservation setting was a little strange in that it wouldn't let you set static IP's outside the DHCP range of addresses. You can work around that by temporarily widening the DHCP address range, reserving the static IP's, and then restoring the normal DHCP range.

The firewall can't be turned off as far as I can tell. That might have been nice since this is now just a standalone VPN server and wireless AP for me now. Only on my second day of...Read more