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Linksys VPN Router Description

Linksys 4-Port Gigabit Security Router with VPN
Protection of your network is a mission critical activity. At Linksys, we build powerful security into every product, to keep your wired and wireless networks safe. Linksys Small Business Series systems have advanced firewall, encryption and authentication features to protect you from network threats threats that can seriously disrupt or damage your business by stealing your valuable data, slowing down your network and interfering with business-critical applications. Our systems ensure maximum application availability enabling you to meet corporate governance and business continuance requirements. The Linksys Small Business Series is the affordable, reliable, high quality networking solution that helps you do business smarter. Secure and easy to install and maintain, it's built to grow with your business.

As broadband speeds increase most 10/100 gateways do not have the power to support those higher data rates, and thus become the bottleneck in the network. The RVS4000 10/100/1000 4-Port VPN Router works at Gigabit speeds to meet the demands of today's networks. It features Linksys' proven SPI Firewall with an integrated Intrusion Detection and Prevent System (IDS/IPS).

Its built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100/1000 Ethernet switch can connect up four PCs directly, or additional hubs and switches. The QoS features provide consistent voice and video quality throughout your business.

In addition the RVS4000 features a Virtual Private Network (VPN) security engine that creates encrypted "IPSec tunnels" through the Internet. The IPSec VPN tunnels enable remote users from at home, or on the road to easily, and securely connect to the office network through a typical wired or wireless broadband connection. When used with another RVS4000 or other Linksys VPN router, "branch-to-branch" connections can be established allowing users in a remote office to connect to the corporate network.

Linksys VPN Router Reviews

REVIEW BY: Zaphod Reviewed Sep 08, 2008

As a router it's not bad. I get 40 to 50 MBytes per second on the local LAN easily. On the WAN I have a high-speed connection and all works great. As a VPN Linksys VPN Router product is useless - really!. If you need VPN functionality, don't even bother with Linksys VPN Router product.

REVIEW BY: matt@norex Reviewed Jul 19, 2008

I've just thrown this out, Linksys VPN Router was stalling and I performed a firmware update from the LinkSys site to see if that would resolve it. It bricked the router and Linksys will not replace even though I just bought this from Tiger 6 months ago, they claim I must have unplugged it even though the firmware update went to 100% and rebooted itself.

REVIEW BY: studd96 Reviewed Sep 01, 2008

DO NOT BUY THIS ROUTER! This is one of those ''you get what you pay for'' items. Basically I have a VPN router that is unable to establish a VPN connection. Seems counter-intuitive. But Linksys is completely fine with it. I could go into more detail but I will sum it up with this: I have just had the worst tech support experience ever. I will never buy a Linksys product again.

REVIEW BY: Pug Reviewed Sep 14, 2008

PRO'S: Good speeds (provided you use gigabit compatible wiring...yes people Cat5 doesn't cut it. Do some research before you bash a product!) Good features within the router. Easy to read IPS (Intrusion Prevention) logs with a quick view of top IP threats that your router has seen. Helps build a multilayered protection scheme (this IPS and firewall capable router, with your anti-virus software, plus items like Windows Vista Defender, or software based internal protection schemes like ZoneAlarm). ------- CON'S: The BIG one is that it is up to Linksys to provide IPS signatures and (as of today) it's been over six months since their last signature was created. You can't add in your own definitions (for all you advanced users). I've contacted Linksys about this since I had some anomalies within my log, but they don't have projected signature update timeframes. The March 2008 signatures are fairly robust, but I am sure I am missing out on quite a bit of activity that I should be seeing.

REVIEW BY: mean horne Reviewed Jul 17, 2008

reviewed by the mean hornet:a great deal on an awesome router at a great price I'VE only had this device for a couple weeks now but already very inpressed with its performance at a connection speed of 1000.0Mbps with downloads at 8,728 kbps and uploads at 492kbps you can't go wrong at this price $114.99

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