Router Not Performing as advertised

I have worked with both the fvs114 and fvs124g and can say that they're both quite fast for their era.  But you have to realize that their era is well over 10 years ago now, when Internet speeds were measured in kbps.

We pushed these two models as far as we could. The FVS114 was our primary router until the wan port finally gave out. Two other lan ports went out prior to this. The maximum WAN to LAN we ever saw was over 40Mbps--well over all the specs published for the unit. We also regularly saw 5Mbps on the VPN throughput on a site-to-site to the FVS124G, again well over spec. Best thing about this router? The under 1 second reboot time.

The 124G's specs on the other hand, were dead on. I never saw more than the same 11.5Mbps, but it was a very reliable 11.5Mbps. We still have this unit somewhere, and I just realized I can repurpose it for its gigabit switch.

Did you know these units came with a lifetime warranty? I haven't yet found the invoices for ours, but the second I do, I'm sending them in for warranty replacement. You can do the same and will get newer models capable of better speeds. Beware however that these newer models have their own quirks that you'll need to work around. Good luck.