Cisco Small Business RV042 Dual WAN VPN Router
Mfg Part #: RV042
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Network connections are the backbone of business connections. Cisco Small Business RV042 Virtual Private Networking (VPN) Router supports up to four wired and 50 off-site connections. The latter allows users to connect into your network with secure access to your files and intranet.
The RV042 comes with dual Internet ports that can serve as a failsafe system for 24/7 network uptime, or as a secondary connection to a separate Internet provider. Whether they're used for backup or speed boosting, the router's networking hardware will keep bottlenecks away from your network, period.
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Review Date: Jan 12, 2009
| Convergex |
Strengths: It's works perfectly with the IP PBX systems we are installing
Weaknesses: None
Summary: This is the perfect product to provide us VPN and a powerful firewall in a very well priced piece of technology.
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Review Date: Oct 23, 2008
| rv042 router |
Strengths: ok
Weaknesses: ok
Summary: didnt install yet. But have 2 others , and with voip sip lines this is the only routers to use the 8 or 12 as well
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Review Date: Aug 04, 2008
| DaveW01 |
Strengths: Powerful router for this price range. Many options and capabilities not found on home models.
Weaknesses: VPN is a tricky to set up.
Summary: I purchased this model because standard Linksys home routers seem to have a high failure rate in the first two years. Most likely heat related. This router can be set up for a simple home network using basic networking settings or can be used for more advanced network structure. My new Windows Home Server OS had no problem recognizing and perform network setup features. The router has two WAN type inputs, useful for a backup or second DSL or Cable modem input.
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Review Date: Jul 30, 2008
| vikram mittal |
Strengths: Web management interface is good, dual-wan capability
Weaknesses: The WAN failover is difficult to get working (I couldn't get it to work in load-balancing).
Summary: I bought this router for it's WAN fail-over capabilities. They are average at best. However, I am not sure if there is a better product at this time which has better failover anyway.
I was happy with PC Super Store's price and service.
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Review Date: Jun 27, 2008
| Larry |
Strengths: Fast, Open Source, Metal case, Plenty of VPN tunnels, great through-put!
Weaknesses: Linksys VPN Client is weak.
Summary: Great product, great firmware support, open source, mateal case, plenty of VPN tunnels, great VPN protocol and encryption flexability, great through-put (even with heavy encryption.) The FREE (on CD)VPN Client is weak.
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Review Date: May 30, 2008
| daled |
Strengths: easy to set up router
Weaknesses: no perceived weaknesses
Summary: price is right, has many bells and whistles - remote connections are easy.
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Review Date: May 16, 2008
| Mike |
Strengths: Gateway-to-gateway IpSEC VPN connections are extremely stable. I installed about 12 RV042 routers at my customer's locations, and never had problems so far. Router was proven to establish stable IPSeC gateway-to-gatevay VPN tunnels with various SonicWall (TZ170, TZ180), Linksys (BEFVP41, BEFSX41, WRV200), Xincom 503, and Netgear 318 VPN routers. Router offers dual WAN capability and propietory VPN client software.
Weaknesses: VPN client software does not work reliably.
Summary: All in all, you are getting solid reliable dual WAN VPN router at a reasonable price. Better probably would be just SonicWall, but it is much more expensive, and has some limitations.
If you do not need to establish client-to-gateway IPSEC VPN connections, the router is what you need.
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Review Date: Mar 28, 2008
| The Great One |
Strengths: supports 30 Mbps download speed
Weaknesses: only 30 forwarding ports
Summary: Good router for a small office with a high speed internet
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