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Aspirant

Apr 14, 2022

Replacement Router?

I know there was a BR200 replacement out for the BR500 but it appears this has gone way of the dodo bird as well. This BR200 look like a nice unit, anyone know if a replacement is in the works?. D...

JohnC_V

NETGEAR Moderator

Apr 19, 2022

Hi Neilio,

Unfortunately, we still don't have any replacement for BR200 for now. Please wait for the announcement of our new products coming very soon.

Regards,

John

NETGEAR Community Team

ThomasNanninga

Guide

May 31, 2022

It would be good to hear about Netgears future router strategy. It's notable that a replacement is offered due to vulnerabilities but the Orbi SXR30 is not an alternative at all (not for me). To what I understand drom the SXR30 datasheet there is no IPSec, no OpenVPN and lastly doesn't fit into a 19" rack.

The outcome is either wait on a successor or buy a Non-Netgear VPN router.

>>Please wait for the announcement of our new products coming very soon.<<

So what is meant to be "very soon"?

DaneA
NETGEAR Employee Retired
May 31, 2022
Neilio / GrayHairCoder / ThomasNanninga,

Kindy read the post of hnagaraju on this community thread here.

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team
- ThomasNanninga
  Guide
  May 31, 2022
  Thanks Dana, I had seen the datasheet before. But let's have a quick look to what you are referring to:
  
  >>If you WAC500/WAX600 series AP for wireless, Then just use SXR80 as wired Business router.<<
  I do have, so ok.
  
  >>SXR80 has 2.5Gbps WAN port. It can do 5 DHCP pools, It can handle up-to 512 DHCP IP address in each pool.<<
  >>The 4 LAN wired ports can be put into Access mode/Trunk Mode and PVID configured.<<
  Ok. That area is covered.
  
  >>For VPN, Branch2Branch we support Business VPN. It is better than older Instant VPN.<<
  I had Instant VPN/BR500 which did a routing of every VLAN to every destination. Maybe Business VPN does better by SSID. I read about monthly cost of 3.xx per user? Anyhow, this would be additional running cost that IPSec or OpenVPN tunnel doesn't require.
  
  SXR80 has also port forwarding, -triggering, dyndns and traffic rules (inter-VLAN)?
  
  >>The main difference is BR500 was rack mount, But SXR80 is desktop, but can be installed on top of rack. <<
  😃Ok, will get a Yankees cap in winter time.
  
  Don't wanna criticize the Orbi stuff, it could work somehow as replacement but it is designed for a different purpose.