Review on NETGEAR FVG318 ProSafe 802.11G Wireless VPN Firewall 8: Complete Network Security Solution by Timothy Weems

Stay away from this device and get the FVS318N instead. This has known issues with issuing duplicate IP addresses. In this case, the entire network goes down, not just two systems with the same IP address. I bought a second one thinking the first one was bad. When the same thing happened, the third NetGear tech I contacted told me there was a known issue and suggested I buy another model that works great. I have to say that I was also very disappointed with the technical support. He tried to tell me to give everyone a static IP address - it was being used at a very busy gym! Then he told me it might take a few weeks to get the RMA because the engineers are so busy. I've never had problems like this with them. I don't know why they release this hardware with such a big problem, but you can't use it if it keeps failing and that's exactly what this device does. It's useless.