| | |  | Everything Else | Home » » Rv 110W Wl N Vpn Firewall | | | | | | | Description: | | The Cisco RV110W Wireless-N VPN Firewall combines simple, highly secure wired and wireless connectivity for small offices/home offices and remote workers with a high-speed, 802.11n wireless access point; a 4-port 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet switch; an intuitive, browser-based device manager; and support for the Cisco FindIT Network Discovery Utility, at a very affordable price. Its combination of business-class features, support for virtual networks to enable highly secure guest access, simple installation, and top-quality user experience takes basic connectivity for a small business with five or fewer employees to a new level. Cisco RV110W VPN Appliance RV110W-A-NA-K9 Network Security & Firewalls . | | | Features: | |
• Integrated 4-port Fast Ethernet switch for connecting PCs, printers, and IP phones
• Quality of service (QoS) support for enhanced voice, video and data traffic
• Includes an intuitive browser-based device manager and setup wizards for easy configuration
• Support for separate ?virtual? networks, enables you to control access to sensitive information and to set up highly secure wireless guest access
• High-speed, standards-based 802.11n wireless connectivity provides better throughput and coverage,
• Allows employees to stay productive while away from their desks
• Enables you to access files on your business network securely when you are away from office
• IPv6 enabled to support the latest Internet Protocol technology, enabling your network to support new technologies
• Support for IP Security (IPsec) and Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) VPN for highly secure remote-access client connectivity
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 1.5 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.7 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 11 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Does the basics well, but rough around the edgesOct 29, 2011
By Anon.
I bought this for regular home use. My old wireless router was starting to intermittently fail as more and more wireless devices got added to the home network, necessitating reboots, and I thought a more serious router would perform better than the cheap commodity home routers.
This unit has performed reliably in that regard---it has not hung up once in the couple of months or so it has been in service. It does the basic Wi-Fi and routing functions well.
But the product does have some rough edges. The administrative UI is a bit clunky. The product has some cool features---but I couldn't get all of them to work. In particular, it offers the ability to set access policies, allowing one, for example, to block access to a particular website at certain times of day for certain users (a potentially handy feature for families), but it looks it is going to take a firmware fix from Cisco to get that working as expected. The router also lets you set up to 4 separate Wi-Fi networks, letting you easily set up a guest WiFi network.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Almost perfect for an small officeFeb 29, 2012
By Clintre
I was really happy to find a router with these features. While overall I am quite happy with this device for my small office, there are some features that are just missing or not quite up to task.
Pros
Really good throughput on a 50Mb Internet connection.
Interface is easy to get up to speed and manage.
Good selection of Firewall Options.
Wi-Fi range and throughput have been good.
Built in VPN
Cons
The QuickVPN is just not a very good client. It forces you to use Windows Firewall and does not allow you to use a Third Party Firewall
You can't point your VPN clients to use the internal DNS. This means if you try to use DNS name resolution for your internal servers or devices it will not work. This is a major oversight as you can't expect your users to always remember IP addresses to access the share drives or printers, or if they have mapped drives they will not work unless you do it by IP. It amazes me a networking company like Cisco would overlook something so simple yet so important.
Does not play well with third part VPN. Since we had the above mentioned issues with QuickVPN we decided to just use out OpenVPN server. Well, Cisco will not allow it to work even if you forward the ports and allow the traffic.
Overall
It is a good firewall and router, but it is a poor VPN device with far too basic of features for any good use. If you just want to be secure the VPN will work, but if you want to actually work you will have to manipulate it in ways that are nor really best practice to make it work for your users.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Very Buggy, Crashes Daily, Cisco Slow to RespondMay 04, 2012
By dancablam
This router must be restarted 2-3 times every day on top of the 2-3 times each day it crashes and restarts itself. The issues with the router are related to Port Forwarding and are known by Cisco. Cisco has released firmware upgrades claiming the issues have been fixed but there's been no improvement in the routers stability. It's been a few months since we've purchased this router and we are now looking for an alternative as it's unusable. You would think Cisco would know how to make a router but after waiting months for a resolution and trying many firmware upgrades to get basic Port Forwarding to work on this router we've had to throw in the towel. If you need only basic routing then get a less expensive router. If you need more advanced features like Port Forwarding this router is not stable enough to get the job done.
Just okayMay 09, 2012
By Dropple
Works well for multiple SSIDs (4) and VLAN management, but that is about it. Just enabling the bandwidth management chokes it and there is an issue with WDS, a feature I wanted but did not research it thoroughly enough with this product (search it in Cisco KB and see that they still cannot get it right). Latest IOS is no help.
Too bad - waste of money.
 Didn't work as advertisedMay 03, 2012
By Matthew Bakaitis
I purchased an RV110W in April 2011 to use in a small business. We had two needs: (1) allow for VPN users to remote into the network, (2) allow a specific and restricted range of external IP addresses to RDP to a specific internal server. These were hard requirements.
After some research, I purchased this based upon reviews and the Cisco name. Some of the reviews (off-Amazon) said that the device had a few problems but then said that new firmware addressed these. None of the problems were related to either of my needs, so I didn't think twice about it.
It's too bad I didn't.
Despite working on configuration, testing, updating firmware, and so on...repeatedly...I was never able to get the NAT to work in a secure fashion via the access (firewall) rules that displayed on the device. Well, to be honest, it worked for a few hours, then stopped. Resetting the entire device to factory defaults and recreating the access rules, NAT, and so on got it working again...for a few hours. This was true even when I was running what is currently the latest firmware release (1.2.0.9).
I had two friends who are much more experienced with these things review my general network setup and the RV110W's configuration. Both reviewed the settings and agreed that it should work, after having eliminated other potential problems (such as Windows firewall rules on the server, other devices that might be causing issues, and so on). They each spent several hours helping me...and still, no joy.
Questions about this and the strange warning messages I saw in the RV110W's logs after the NAT stopped working in conjunction with access rules were posted to the Cisco support forums.
These returned one answer from a Cisco employee: "Don't use both ACL and Port forward on the Small Business routers the forward will be enough to get the traffic through the firewall." (So...I got no answer to what the strange warning messages meant, no explanation of why you can't use access rules and NAT in tandem, no explanation of why it worked for a few hours then filed, and...well, all I got was a "if it doesn't work when you try that, then don't try it again" from them. Thanks.)
To be honest, when I did what they asked and set up a NAT with no firewall rules it worked...which is OK if I am willing to accept that my server would be exposed to every script kiddie out there who discovered I have a device globally responding on RDP.
But I'm not.
What I expected was a "proven firewall" with "access rules support" that "helps keep business assets safe".
I didn't get it...not if I wanted to use a NAT, I guess.
So for this reason, it gets two stars.
And as a coda: when I bought a similar product from a competitor, it worked exactly as expected.
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