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Summary: u want to be their alpha tester?
Review: I have been using RT314 for over a year, and it's great! A few days ago, I saw FR114P at Fry's. I think it's about time to have a wired router/firewall/printer server product for around [hundred dollars]. I bought it, but I never got the printer server to work. I was on the phone with a tech support and a 2nd level senior tech support for over an hour. we've tried everything, nothing worked. The senior level tech support told me that a higher senior tech support would contact me. I have a HP deskjet 952Cerr... I returned the product on the same day. Since the product is new, you might want to wait awhile to buy this supposedly great product unless you want to be their alpha tester. I would buy it again when the product matures.........
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Summary: A Great Product and Easy To Set Up
Review: I have three computers in my home, two of which I built myself. I needed a way to share my internet connection, share files between each machine and share a printer. I had a D-Link router that worked just fine but I had to have my main computer up and running to print. I didn't like that at all. So, I decided I needed a printer server. After looking at a lot of "stand alone" print servers I decided to just replace the entire router. I never really cared for the D-Link I had. It was difficult to set up and the packaged instructions were terrible. When I recieved my NetGear Router I opened the box with dread in my heart. I remembered how difficult it had been to set up the D-Link and expected the set up of the NetGear to be just as gruesome. I was totally surprised. The instructions were clear and concise. I walked through them step by step and had the router up and running in about 10 minutes. What a relief! Then I set about setting up the print server. The included CD-ROM contains the step-by-step instructions for installing the printer port and for configuring your systems. I had the print server up and running in about a 1/2 hour. I have been running this router for about two months now and have absolutely no complaints. I do a lot of downloading and my speeds have not been negatively impacted by the installation of the router. The print server is solid and spools jobs from each machine and then prints each job effortlessly with no problem. I highly recommend this router.
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Summary: Extremely simple, yet powerful for the techie...
Review: I looked at over 10 different cable/DSL routers and decided on the Netgear FR114P based on features, price, and reviews (and past bad experiences with LinkSys.) Being a Network Engineer, this puppy was a no brainer to setup. Now I have port forwarding setup and Dynamic DNS working like a charm! When the RPC worms hit and was shutting down Microsoft computers all over the planet - I never even noticed! The print server was a snap to setup and didn't even require drivers to be installed if you are running XP or Linux (I run both) - I use LPR and it works great! The only issue I have had is with Shareaza (Gnutella client) when I enable EDonkey2000 support - It floods the router until it refuses to pass traffic.... no big deal. Speeds are excellent and management is a breeze. The only complaints I have are:
DynamicDNS doesn't update unless the IP changes - if it's on all the time, the IP never changes and eventually I get an Email from DynDNS.org stating no updates in 30 days and if I don't update within 5 days my account will be suspended....
Not enough versatility with port forwarding... I want to have the ability to accept requests on port 9945 and forward to an internal port 80 instead of being forced to have both port numbers to be the same.... no big deal though....
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Summary: No Brainer Installation
Review: I read the other reviews here with some dismay before I bought this unit. I decided to go ahead with the purchase because I had spent a lot of time researching router/switch combos with print server capability and true SPI firewall capability. There are not a lot of reasonably priced options out there. In summary this unit has performed like a dream. I had two PC's, a NIC laserprinter, and a parallel port printer (via print server) all plugged in, configured with my DSL service, and all up and running in less than 30 minutes. Please note that BEFORE I purchased this unit I made 3 separate "pre-sales" calls to Netgear tech support and received what I considered to be good information in each instance (I even placed a call at 3am one morning to check if they really were 24/7). Read the installation guide from cover to cover BEFORE you actually DO anything and you will probably find (as I did) that this is a no-brainer deal.
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Summary: No hassle set-up
Review: I tried the Linksys firewall router and spent over 4 hours on the phone with their technical support. Nice folks but not much help. I returned the unit and purchased the Netgear FR114P. Within 15 minutes it was up and running - no problems and no calls to technical support were necessary. Wish I had tried this one first!
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Summary: DHCP stalls
Review: I upgraded my home net with several pieces of Netgear hardware, including the FR114P router, the WG102 Wifi Access Point, and the FS108P, an 8-port switch with 4 Power Over Ethernet (POE) ports. The AP and the POE switch have been excellent choices. Not so with the router. Although it has features you don't find in a lot of consumer routers, like stateful packet inspection (SPI), logging, and email alerts, it just kept dropping connections to my home PCs for no apparent reason that I could find, and no support from Netgear. The DHCP server would seem to die, and all my home PCs would then lose their IPs and revert to private IPs (169.254.x.x). At that point my only recourse was to restart the router. After three weeks of this nonsense, I said to he** with it. I'm sending it back. The router I'm interested in now is the SMC Barricade Plus SMCBR14VPN.
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Summary: similar to others -- good for a while, but ...
Review: I, like many other reviewers, found the router to work as advertised, mostly. like others, I never was able to get the printserver to work with my Lexmark 3200. But I mainly bought this item for its router/firewall capabilities.
as with others, the unit worked fine for nearly 18 months. now, I have to power cycle the thing nearly every time I boot my pc's in order to get an internet connection. and it randomly looses the internet connection with my cable modem. once the internet connection is lost I also loose LAN capability. it's really too bad, I really liked this product. for nearly a year and a half I didn't even think about it much. now it's a big headache. I gave it 2 stars since I liked it when it worked (4 stars) even though the print server didn't work, and now it rates 1 star -- so I took the average. for an $80-$100 product you wold think these things would last more than a year or so.
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Summary: Fails after 1 year (if you're lucky); BAD customer service.
Review: My router failed after 1 year. It was then replaced by Netgear with another lemon (after hours of "home-tests" and dealing with several incompitent, rude, English-language impaired service reps). After the replacement failed within 1 month, I was no longer eligible to recieve anymore help from Netgear. I got the run around treatment (they refused to transfer me to a manager or even listen to my complaints) and unless you pay $35-$50 for another warranty, they will just cover their ears and say, "La-la-la-la-la--." Don't bother with this scrapmetal. I recommend D-Link products.
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Summary: worked OK for maybe 18 months then "pop" and smells bad
Review: Never could hook up the printer, but it worked OK for a while until it started making erratic connection with the cable modem. Then "POP", a bad smell, and I'm out $100!
Serial FR14A278A011564
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Summary: worked OK for maybe 18 months then "pop" and smells bad
Review: Never could hook up the printer, but it worked OK for a while until it started making erratic connection with the cable modem. Then "POP", a bad smell, and I'm out $100!
Serial FR14A278A011564
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