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BR500 Issues and Feedback.
Been looking forward to the BR500 release for some time now and finally just procured one through Powershift Eval.
First impressions:
DHCP Servers and VLAN setup through Insight got my blood ...
I was gonna buy this thing (on sale for $230 at Newegg currently) until I noticed that the firmware update instructions require (note the emphasis) installation from the cloud, which is literally the definition of insanity. I'm not sure Insight has been well thought through as a product, and since easy remote access is what I'm going for, if I disable it there's no point in having the BR500.
I have not done anything with this model with Insight (Cloud Management) since I posted this thread, still with no response from Netgear's team. You can still remote manage it via gui, securely with firewall rules and VPN configuration.
Stand-alone mode is good, still needs more features to make it a *better* business "class" router....but trust me, you can do a firmware update locally, as I've done it. The manual PDF on this is pretty easy if you're familiar with firewalls. Definitely much better than previous firewalls in function and configuration IMO.
Really? I thought you needed Insight for OpenVPN to work?
ComputerMikes wrote:
I have not done anything with this model with Insight (Cloud Management) since I posted this thread, still with no response from Netgear's team. You can still remote manage it via gui, securely with firewall rules and VPN configuration.
Page 126: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/BR500/BR500_UM_EN.pdf
"If you do not use NETGEAR Insight, you can use OpenVPN software to set up VPN
connections and remotely access an office or site at which a NETGEAR BR500 router isininstalled."Increasing frustration with this device. Random reboots, uptime reset to 0, and the in-memory log gets wiped and contains no helpful info. Anyone have an insight into this or experience the same problems?
I'm at my wits end, and an getting quite sour on what purports to be a great small/medium business router/VPN appliance.
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