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Functionalities: VPN Pass-Thru, DHCP Server, WAN: 1 x RJ-11 for DSL, LAN: 10/100/1000 Base-T, Firewall: Content Filtering, URL Fil... |  |
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| Product Reviews from Amazon.com (Rating System 1 to 5) |
| Review | Rating | Last Updated | Please, buy something *ELSE*
I work from home, I require solid networking. My family is online quite often. I bought the Linksys RVS4000 as an upgrade to my Linksys BEFSR41, which is going on 10 years old I believe. It's been a solid performer all it's life, but was starting to show it's age.
The Linksys RVS4000 is junk, because it falls down doing the one thing it must do well : staying connected and passing traffic. Linksys could remove 50% of the "extras" this rounter does (L2 managed switching, GigE WAN, single port forwarding, QoS traffic shaping, IPS, DOS detection, external syslog, etc) and it wouldn't matter because this router will not stay "online" overnight. Or even for about 9 hours at a time.
The Linksys RVS4000 has been a terrible addition to my network, it needs to be reset every morning (sometimes during the day), it randomly "pauses" during the day sometimes, it is very slow to reboot. It is very slow to reconnect to DHCP "bound" machines.
My slightly beat down BEFSR41 is MILES above this RVS4000 thing because it's at least consistent (slower, but at least it stays online until I transfer about 250mb over an IPsec connection).
Anyway, I am buying a D-Link DGL-4100 (get the 4300 for wireless) as a replacement. Some things spec wise which might be different is the VPN end point management (which many people report as faulty with the Linksys RVS4000) and the 10/100 WAN port on the D-Link instead of GigE on the Linksys.
Yes, I am on the latest firmware. Some people report this works for them, my guess is: give it time, It will probably fail soon enough.
Summary: Do Not Buy This Linksys RVS4000 if you value staying connected, yes I was running the latest xxxx.14 firmware released early in 2008.
| 1 | Today | VPN Doesn't Work
I bought this router to set up VPN for a business client. I thought a Linksys router off the shelf would be a simple working solution. The customer needed to attach remotely with an XP laptop using a DSL connection. I set up the router behind a completely open Netopia router from the ISP. The ISP's Netopia router was set up as bridge only. I installed the Linksys QuickVPN client. The QuickVPN client wouldn't work. After 2 weeks on the phone with Linksys it was still not working consistently. It did work 1 time but quickly failed to work. They finally escalated it to another level where they were able to replicate the problem in the "lab". The only criteria were the Linksys router must be set up behind an open DSL router. Likely, this is the most common configuration of all. It must not have been tested in this configuration prior to release. ??? So, they escalated it to another level and sent it to engineering. They can't give me an ETA and don't know when they can even start troubleshooting. They have been very nice if not very helpful. No one has done any real troubleshooting during this whole process. I have done some port analysis and have tried other VPN Clients to no avail.
Conclusion: Portable VPN (QuickVPN) does not work with the RVS4000 behind a DSL router. This is a router without VPN.
Solution: I will try a HotBrick VPN router.
Hotbrick - 401VPN - 4-Port VPN Firewall Router | 1 | Today | Unrealized Potential
Have had this device for over a year. Great specs and features for an advanced SOHO. Not very stable and constently needs to be reset manually. Have had the same problems with its sister product (WRVS4400N) which I also own. They are both niche products and Linksys is really not putting out stable firmware for either. I no lomger have them in my home network. | 2 | Today | Y4K junk heap! firmware download of 1.1.14 registered as 1.1.11! how stupid is that?!
In addition to said title of this message, you can't even access the configuration with the "admin" user/passcode. If you use utilities to update firmware, the onsite firmware is acutally listed as 1.1.14 and DOWNDates mine from it's inital 1.1.12 to 1.1.11! how droll! If you have an earthlink acount, your in for a bigger mess as they're "spaeecial!" meaning you must both bridge your modem(via instructions if your lucky to get a tech that's cohearent, I did. once.) The router has it's own problems(thus I don't reveiw my modem) the modem problem is solved! And yet mister router here, still won't config once you bridge it. PPOE support is awful! avoid in not only Vista but also XP!!! Not OS fault, the router's lameness and mal firmware! | 2 | Today | Product fine, but VPN for Vista doesn't work yet
There isn't a problem with this router, it works fine, however, if you are using Windows Vista you are in trouble. This is because Linksys still hasn't resolved why its QuickVPN software won't connect with Vista. So, if you are buying the VPN router hoping to connect to your office, watch out. QuickVPN doesn't work and despite Linksys (Cisco)'s giant size--their engineers cannot solve the QuickVPN problem.
They should disclose this to you before you buy the router. This is why I am writing the review--to warn the next buyer. | 4 | Today | VPN doesn't work
The basic router functions seem to work. Others say the latency is poor - but I have no means to measure it. However, trying to make a VPN connection through it using QuickVPN does not work for me. I have been trying to get help on the Linksys forum - plenty of others with similar problems but no solutions. I tried getting online support a couple of times - but gave up waiting. Documentation useless. Error messages meaningless and diagnostic tools, none. I suggest trying something else. | 1 | Today | Problematic with terrible latency
The feature set of this router looks compelling. It supports VPN and 1GbE connections. However, the design is terribly flawed.
Firstly, any significant changes to the router settings require a complete router reboot. The reboot takes forever and so if you are doing anything complicated, be prepared to spend a while waiting for the router to reboot after every change you make.
Second, the router has horrible latency. If you ping this router, your latency should be <1ms. However, this router under that best circumstances requires up to 10ms to forward your packets. My router is currently about to die and will give bursts of latency as high as 900ms! This makes doing anything horribly painful.
When I called Linksys technical support, they did not even know what latency was. Instead they forced me to go through a download and reinstall of the firmware before agreeing to RMA.
Stay away from this POS. | 1 | Today | DO NOT BUY this piece of Garbage
An old Linksys fan since 1995. Great success with their products and excellent tech support until circa 2003, after which every Linksys product I had then is still working flawlessly. But I wanted to try VPN, and the RVS4000 seemed the perfect solution. Considering the negative reviews on Amazon and that the only good ones did not relate to VPN, and not wanting to buy something suspicious from Amazon, I paid more to get it from Best Buy. Which means Best Buy will be the one to get it back face-to-face !!
THIS THING IS pure JUNK !!! Just getting onto internet was Ok, but it took TWELVE HOURS over THREE DAYS on the phone with Tech support before THEY could "see" the VPN connection themselves. The tech people in the Phillipines(?) were GREAT - very patient, even emailed beta-firmware (1.1.13) which DID make a difference - once we saw the tech notes warning the XP firewall had a defect - which I disabled.
So, the VPN server connection was open waiting for a client. Until it shut down all by itself an hour later... solved by powering off/on. THEN, by the time I drove 100 miles to the "client" site, it had shut the VPN down again - all by itself ! Since I wasn't interested in hiring a 24/7 babysitter to reset the router every hour I called tech support - which is what I had been instructed to do if the client could not connect. This time I was routed to India - to three morons in India to be precise - none of whom could speak English or show any sign of an IQ above 20 - and none of whom could figure out why I couldn't just reset the VPN router again (from 100 miles away) and try the client connection simultaneously, and on and on and an hour of repeating myself six times - with long hold periods between each repeat - until I finally ran out of patience.
No doubt about it - THIS THING IS pure JUNK ! It seems Cisco has been profiting on the Linksys name while abandoning Linksys quality. I guess that's why those CEO's get the big bucks - finding ways to sell garbage in disguise.
I rolled the dice in good faith, no big deal. But now I, for one, know to NOT buy anything with the Linksys or Cisco names or it, and to TRUST Amazon ratings !
| 1 | Today | It Delivers!
I was a bit skeptical about this product due to some early reviews that were negative, but I've had a great experience. It offers a very rich set of functions, and has definitely reduced "suspicious activity" I had been experiencing with my prior router (an old Linksys Etherfast DSL Router). I've had to reset it only once in the three months I've had it. I have not tried its VPN support.
I'm very pleased with this product. | 5 | Today | Great VPN & VLAN support
Got this to firewall an Internet service and its been working great! The Built-in IPS (Intruder Prevention System) seems to catch a lot of attacks, so that part is good. Setting up VLANs (Virtual LANs) is a snap and seems to work great. The IPSec VPN really only works right with the Linksys QuickVPN software, but its easy to install and if you follow the directions, works great the first time out. This box is overkill for just a home network, but for us SOHO users with data that we need to access while mobile, its a champ! Now if it only have VIP (Virtual IP) so I could set up some Highly-Available servers.... Documentation is rather sparse in my opinion, so its not a good choice for a net n00by to set up. | 4 | Today |
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