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Summary: Warning, This unit will fail.
Review: Please read the review from WhiteHerring before you purchase. I had the same exact thing happen to mine. It works wonderfully... for a while and then fails completely. Mine lasted about the same length of time, 9 months, with all the same symptoms.
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Summary: Print Server is useless
Review: The firewall/router portion of the FR114P is great and easy to set up, but the print server is useless! I have a Canon i850 on Windows XP, and it drags the print speed down so low that you want to cry. While printing graphics it literally pauses for a second or two after each pass of the print head. After installing via the recommended method (Netgear's virtual firewall printer port), I found a tidbit of two cryptic sentences on their website that suggested installing the printer via the Windows LDP/LPR port as a remedy for slow printing. This made no difference. Tech support then suggested turning off print buffering on the Windows printer settings. This only made matters worse as it still printed slowy but now also ties up the computer until it's done!
I returned the FR114P and will now try the D-Link DI-704UP which has a USB print server. This thing's great if you don't mind paying an extra $40 for print server functionality that you'll never want to use!
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Summary: Powerful firewall, yet easy to setup
Review: The FR114P has more expressive rules than you might find on a Linksys.
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Summary: Supports L2TP VPN
Review: The Linksys BEFSX41 is a faster and superior router to this Netgear box. I've found Linksys products in general to be more reliable than Netgear. BUT, I've be migrated to a new VPN client that utilizes IPsec L2TP. Although the Linksys does support IPsec pass thru, it does not allow L2TP. This NetGear router does. The print server is a nice plus, IF you want the router right next to the printer. I don't. So if you need L2TP, then this router is a good value. If you can spend more, I would suggest the SMC Baricade SMCBR18VPN. Its better quality and supports L2TP. But it lacks the print server and costs more.
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Summary: Firewall/Router work fine - Print Server a project
Review: The router & firewall functionality of the FR114P are fine. Print server took hours of effort with varying error messages but no printing.Netgear offered to send me a new box for $15. Charge even though I am well within the warrantee period. New box seems to be working fine, but it has only been a few days. This box has a documented issues with HP printers. They are (now) clearly addressed on the Netgear web site. Be sure to look there before you try to use this with an HP printer. It will not work if you follow the instructions in the manual. As for the other features, I followed the instruction manual to the letter. On line with 3 computers in no time. Networking between the computers worked out of the box. But no printing. E-mailed back and forth with Netgear tech support. Reasonably prompt replies, but nothing more that pointing me to the same material I had already reviewed on their web site. Called tech support. Typical 30 minutes on hold. Tech rep was very professional, but unable to get the printer printing after about 45 minutes of trying. Then offered the replacement box.
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Summary: Netgear Equals Superb Service
Review: This holiday season I was a good santa and purchased numerous wireless networking products for my various family members. Sure it was partially a selfish act as I wanted to be able to easily connect when I went to visit, but for the most part it was just an act of giving. I purchased mainly G products and they varied from routers to USB adapters to PC Card adapters. I did also purchase a couple of B products for those in the family that already had some wireless networking products (yes, I know they are backwards compatible but I didn't want to take any chances).
Only two members of the family had installation problems (considering my family is very non-technical I was quite impressed) and those two people both had yet to upgrade to Windows XP SP2. The rest of the family members were up and running within minutes.
As for the couple of family members that did have problems, well they called me first (of course) and I told them to just run back through the installation procedure again. This solved the problem for Uncle Dennis but Grandma Joyce still couldn't get it to work properly. I reluctantly told her to call Netgear's technical support (hey the reviews on Amazon haven't been too pretty for their tech support). I however was quite pleased when an hour later I got an email from Grandma Joyce thanking me for the great gift. I called her back and she told me that after fiddling with the settings with the Netgear people she was up and running within 30 minutes.
Overall, I consider this the ultimate test of product quality and support and I would give Netgear two thumbs up.
I hope this review was helpful to you in putting your mind at ease regarding ease of setup and trust of technical support if needed.
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Summary: Not The Router For You
Review: This is one of Netgear's newest and worst models. It's ability to configure rules leaves much to be desired. Although advertising states otherwise, their technical department, are at a loss for words (or answers). Which brings to fact a second point. This particular model is pretty much without knowledgable Netgear technical help.
So if it's your ambition to find out "What came first, The chicken or the egg?" this router is up your ally. Cause you'll discover the answere to the Chicken riddle, before you can figure rules out for this router that will work consistantly.
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Summary: FR114P - Excellent!
Review: This router rocks. Setup was as easy as any other router I've used.... I have SWBell PPPOE DSL and after typing in my name and password, it worked right away. I have a 1996 HP 820Cse printer, and it works perfectly with the printer port - even turning itself on when a job comes from the router. Although, after using the setup disk to install the FR114P Printer port, I could not find the printer by browsing the LAN network. I had to add the printer as a local printer and the FR114P printer port showed up in the drop down list (Win XP). On my wife's XP system, installing the printer port from the Netgear disk continued to installing the printer without a problem (go figure - two identical XP systems). If you buy this router just add the printer port with the driver disk and then cancel when the network printer installer comes up (if it doesn't find it). Then just add the printer as a local printer and in the drop down list of ports (LPT1, LPT2, etc) will be the FR114P. I paid for a full security test on dslreports.com and tried a few others.... the FR114P got a perfect score evertime on every security test I tried....I've been using routers for 3 years at home (D-Link, Linksys, Firebox, UGate-UMAX) and I've very happy with this one. No problems at all so far..... :)
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Summary: Easy setup, works great
Review: This was even easier to setup than I had anticpated. I have a Win 98SE desktop and an XP desktop, both went online with no problem. The print server worked just fine after installing the print server software on both machines. The router automatically received all info from my ISP (DHCP, DNS numbers, etc) and was up and running while I was making my network connections. Have not tried gaming or port forwarding yet, but I have had no problem with the rules setup. Before the router I used my internet connected computer and a crossover ethernet cable to share my internet conection through proxy software as well my printer between my two desktops.
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Summary: Works with Unreal, Quake 3 without problems
Review: Thought I'd throw in my 2 cents:
Seamless, brainless install for network connectivity.
Printer driver works fine, but install on 2 *very* similar machines was oddly different (see a previous review).
Didn't have to put the game machine in the DMZ, or even setup any port forwarding, it worked right out of the box with stock settings (thank you Netgear). Have played Unreal Tournament 2003, Quake 3, and Soldier of Fortune 2 straight out of the box. It's sooooooooo nice not having to f**k with network settings when all you want to do at the end of the day is play a round or two of a game. DSLReports.com actually shows a slight increase in upload/download speeds, so there's probably no difference compared to my previous PC/firewall machine, and from what i've seen, my software firewalls are all reporting about 99% less activity. The print server feature is pretty sweet. All this ... is pretty amazing and a great buy.
-Hope this helps the curious-
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