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Aspirant

Jan 13, 2017

FVX538 - Broken ... anyone know where to get replacement motherboard?

Not sure of Hardware version. Bought two of these FVX538 routers a 10 years ago ... was told they were Version 2. Label on bottom of case says Version 2. But, neither worked reliably with most...

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jan 23, 2017

BPR,

If ever you decide to replace the old FVX538 and check on the NETGEAR ProSAFE VPN Firewall Routers available in the market today, let me just share you the data sheet here. It shows the specifications and comparison of the FVS318Gv2, FVS336Gv3, SRX5308 and FVS318N.

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team

BPR

Aspirant

Jan 23, 2017

I will wait for a few months to see if I can find a replacement motherboard.

I don't need anymore routers now ... have several hundred sitting on the shelf.

I already have a few dozen FVS318's ... mostly model 1's ... a few model 2's and two Model 3's ... I don't think any of these will be able to cope with the WAN<>NAT data rate requirements that I'm seeing now.

I also have a few dozen FVS124G's but they seem to restrict the WAN<>NAT throughput to less than 15Mb and aren't really usable on most Highspeed ISP connections anymore.

But, I do like the simplicity of the FVX538 and would like to see if I can recover it. It does seem to be able to process WAN<>NAT traffic faster than a 40Mb ISP connection ... not sure how fast it can go yet though.

SamirD
Prodigy
Feb 01, 2017
I never got more than 12Mb out of our 124G, so you're doing good with 15 if you can get that much. I think your best bet is to search online to see if someone has a 538 for sale. It won't be expensive considering how old it is. It's amazing how much some of the older units can do--we were pushing over 40Mbps through a FVS114 without a problem for years!