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Summary: Good product, missing some features
Review: It works well as a statefull firewall. What it is missing: The ability to block inbound (or outbound) ip addresses/ranges. I had a few spammers touching my server > 1 per min - it would have been nice if I could block them at the firewall.
Rating:
Summary: Good product, missing some features
Review: It works well as a statefull firewall. What it is missing: The ability to block inbound (or outbound) ip addresses/ranges. I had a few spammers touching my server > 1 per min - it would have been nice if I could block them at the firewall.
Rating:
Summary: Good product, missing some features
Review: It works well as a statefull firewall. What it is missing: The ability to block inbound (or outbound) ip addresses/ranges. I had a few spammers touching my server > 1 per min - it would have been nice if I could block them at the firewall.
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Summary: Lacking features found elsewhere.
Review: NetGear RO318 has the nicety of spoofing the currently-administering PC's MAC address, but provides no way to configure in an arbitrary MAC address (e.g., I want to configure the box for someone else).The UI is also clumsy to use for anyone who is familiar in any way with setting up a network, and the various screens are not really grouped in a logical way. Routing rules are also not very configurable ("exposed server" rules seem to be restricted to TCP; there is no UI for accepting UDP in from the WAN).
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Summary: Problems if running a DNS/DHCP server
Review: The RO318 works wonderfully--if you let it be the DHCP server--but I run a Windows 2000 server acting as DHCP/DNS server for the domain.
If you disable the RO318's DHCP you can no longer plug in the WAN's (ISP) pri/sec DNS servers. You have no control over the external DNS servers being used, and the DNS entries are not past to the clients (ipconfig/all just brings up the router's IP for DNS, whereas if the RO318's DHCP is used ipconfig/all shows the ISP DNS servers). In my opinion that is serious bug/oversight...I pointed this out as an issue to support. In addition to limiting your control to your ISP configuration, it interfers with Active Directory's communication to the clients (W2K-SP2):
"Event ID 1000; Source: Userenv; Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. Return value (1722)." You can still ping boxes on the domain, and use UNC path to them, but run into problems when adding users into groups (policy problems/domain can't be reached). Issue is that certain elements of the LAN traffic are not being routed to the internal DNS server through the router. Work around is to hard code into the clients the IP for the internal DNS server...which of course means you can no longer access the internet, so you're faced with modifying the clients in order to accomplish certain tasks.
In my opinion if your not running a server on your LAN this is a very fine piece of hardware, but if you are, or your planning to, you might look to other hardware. I have on order the Linksys BEFSR81 now in hopes that it will do a better job in a server/client config. Hope that helps somebody out there. >:~) Peace.
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Summary: Problems if running a DNS/DHCP server
Review: The RO318 works wonderfully--if you let it be the DHCP server--but I run a Windows 2000 server acting as DHCP/DNS server for the domain.
If you disable the RO318's DHCP you can no longer plug in the WAN's (ISP) pri/sec DNS servers. You have no control over the external DNS servers being used, and the DNS entries are not past to the clients (ipconfig/all just brings up the router's IP for DNS, whereas if the RO318's DHCP is used ipconfig/all shows the ISP DNS servers). In my opinion that is serious bug/oversight...I pointed this out as an issue to support. In addition to limiting your control to your ISP configuration, it interfers with Active Directory's communication to the clients (W2K-SP2):
"Event ID 1000; Source: Userenv; Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. Return value (1722)." You can still ping boxes on the domain, and use UNC path to them, but run into problems when adding users into groups (policy problems/domain can't be reached). Issue is that certain elements of the LAN traffic are not being routed to the internal DNS server through the router. Work around is to hard code into the clients the IP for the internal DNS server...which of course means you can no longer access the internet, so you're faced with modifying the clients in order to accomplish certain tasks.
In my opinion if your not running a server on your LAN this is a very fine piece of hardware, but if you are, or your planning to, you might look to other hardware. I have on order the Linksys BEFSR81 now in hopes that it will do a better job in a server/client config. Hope that helps somebody out there. >:~) Peace.
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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: Very nice product...
Review: This was an excellent product for the money. The 8 port 10/100 hub performs beautifully on my LAN and I have had ZERO problems with this box. The DHCP server is solid and responds to DHCP requests on all of my Windows and Solaris machines. Firewall capabilities are good although the limit of 10 port forwarding settings could eventually become an issue. For the money, you can't go wrong with the functionality and the quality of this device.
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Summary: Very nice product...
Review: This was an excellent product for the money. The 8 port 10/100 hub performs beautifully on my LAN and I have had ZERO problems with this box. The DHCP server is solid and responds to DHCP requests on all of my Windows and Solaris machines. Firewall capabilities are good although the limit of 10 port forwarding settings could eventually become an issue. For the money, you can't go wrong with the functionality and the quality of this device.
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Summary: Good protection, easy to use and reliable
Review: We are a Netgear home-office. We upgraded to the RO318 security router from the Netgear FS108 ethernet bridge and have been happy ever since. We chose this router to free up our main office computer from duty as the internet server to our network. With this piece of gear our high speed DSL connection goes directly to the router which in turn acts as a great little network server to our 7 hardwired workstations plus an additional 3 on a wireless sub-system. Once we were set up, we've never had to worry about anything else. We used the web-browser based set-up feature which was really easy to use and only took a few minutes. You need to know and have your various DSL settings ready such as static IP address etc. The firewall is effective and configurable to send an email alert when an attack is detected. The additional feature I love is the integrated keyword or address-based (www. ..) web filter....You can easily configure it to send you a report of attempts to access inappropriate sites. This is a great little piece of equipment that has a lot of useful features for the small office or home network.
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