Linksys WRVS4400N 4-Port Wireless-N Gigabit Security Router with VPN

Average customer rating: 3.0

Nice specs, too many bugs
Nice Product With Firmware Upgrades
Awsome Router
Major disapointment
Good Features, buggy implementation

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Linksys WRVS4400N 4-Port Wireless-N Gigabit Security Router with VPN

Manufacturer: Linksys
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000H97UC0

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Product Description

The WRVS4400N 4-Port N Gigabit Security Router with VPN from Linksys offers enhanced firewall, encryption and authentication features to protect you from network threats. The WRVS4400N implements draft 802.11n (Wireless-N) technology with a Virtual Private Network (VPN) Router that features a built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet switch. By overlaying the signals of multiple radios, Wireless-N's Multiple In, Multiple Out (MIMO) technology multiplies the effective data rate resulting in greater throughput and coverage over 802.11g. At the same time, Wireless-N is backwards compatible with Wireless-B and G devices. The WRVS4400N has incorporated enhanced firewall and intrusion protection (IPS) features to secure your network from external 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. The VPN tunnels give your mobile workers a secure and easy to use way to stay connected. In addition, the VPN gateway-to-gateway IPSec tunnels facilitate branch office connectivity through encrypted virtual links. Compliant Standards - Full duplex capability, firewall protection, auto-sensing per device, dynamic IP address assignment, DHCP support, NAT support, VPN, PAT support, auto-negotiation, Syslog support, Stateful Packet In IPSec VPN Tunneling, Built in Web UI, IDS/IPS Network Intrusion Detection and Protection Services, User Definable Access Control Lists, QoS Support Data Link Protocol - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n (draft) 300 Mbps System Requirements - Network Adapter With Ethernet Network Cable and TCP/IP Protocol Installed Per PC, Web-Based Configuration Java/Cookies/SSL-Enabled Web Browser MD5, 128-bit WEP, 64-bit WEP, SHA-1, PEAP, WPA2, WPA-PSK Line Coding Format Routing Protocol Dimensions - Width 7.8 x Dep

Customer Reviews:

Nice specs, too many bugs.......2007-05-29

I have a Belkin Pre-N network at my house and liked the specs on the new Linksys product (WMP300N PCI adapter and the WRVS4400n router and access point) for my office. Out of the box nothing worked. An upgrade to .13 firmware in the router at least got it working. Speeds are impressive, but as many others have noted, the system hangs up at random times driving users to distraction. I returned the product and reinstalled my Cat 6 cables.

Once Linksys gets the bugs out I'll try them again, but they released this product without enough testing, in my opinion. This is a classic example of buyer beware.

Nice Product With Firmware Upgrades.......2007-05-14

I've check this ratings before buy it and was kind of scared cause have a lot bad ones, but in practice is great, just have to make the firmware upgrades and that's it... also check the IPS service it's kind of cool.

Awsome Router.......2007-03-30

I usually never buy a router from linksys, 1st one was a pain to setup, 3 years ago. Now when you buy this its does everything for you. Only a few settings and presto! Filtering works perfectly. Didnt pass any viruses or content that i blocked. (ie word filtering works perfectly) Blocks attackers from killing the router, Logs all the attacks and there ip address. Technology great. Firewall and Mimo wireless with a gigbit ethernet. What more can you ask for?? Upgrade firmware and signatures when purchasing it. When installing dont forget to release the ip from the old router and on the linksys dhcp renew. Many ppl forget about this. Other people say its bad, it probably they dont know what they are doing or just got a bad router from the site. Defiently worth the money. Got 1 for the business and one for home. This is a must have product.

Major disapointment.......2007-03-16

I bought this router for a small business network as an upgrade mainly for the gigabit switch and added security features. It is very simple, a workgroup p2p consisting of 8 computers. When I set everything up it worked fine for about an hour when it started dropping the wireless connection. After a while I decided to disable the n-draft connection. This made no difference. It would either drop the Internet connection or drop the connection period. I upgraded the firmware as well. The browser interface is slow and would even hang sometimes. Whats even more disturbing is that even the wired clients could not always access the network and even when they could, there was lag. This is using a gigabit connection. After working with it for a week I came to the conclusion that it is defective and returned it. Like the other person here mentioned, it is noisy...it emits a near ultrasonic like noise which can be really annoying if you're near it for even a short time. As soon as I hooked up my old router (Gigabyte B49G), my network was rock solid again.

Good Features, buggy implementation.......2007-02-26

PROS: N-draft, VPN (if it works),IPSec, Support team (overseas) which is clearly trying to do the right thing.
Cons: 1.After Netgears and Dlink the UI on the linksys is positively horrific, 2. The only router I have ever owned that lacks dhcp address reservation (update - the workaround is to use values outside the dhcp range), 3. bugggy firmware in VPN - setting Remote Security Group and Remote Security Gateway to Any (so you can actually USE the VPN from any remote location) it gives a popup which directs you to go to advanced settings and use the name option which, as far as I can tell, doesn't exist. (issue with mac safari browser - appears to be accessible via firefox with latest version of the firmware (2.0.13).
4.When you go to advanced settings in VPN it forgets all the settings you entered in the "normal" mode.(safari issue) 5. In theory an "N" device should have greater range - Belkins I have installed for customers have 3-4 times the range. This has less range then the DLINK G router it replaced (it appears to be better under 2.0.13).

Still not VPN working from my mac, but all in all I like it a lot otherwise.

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