RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Router

Top notch high end home / small business router. Not for novice users. The documentation is for network people and assumes you already know a lot about complex networking topics so if you are not a geek, you will need to plan to hire one to help set this up correctly. If you don't, expect odd behavior and issues. I have been running with dual WAN from separate ISP (not multihoming just load balance (which is somewhat crude but works)) with no issues for about 6 mos. now. The box is very stable and I have not had it hang up or require a restart unless I do something stupid. All my stuff is on UPS so I don't know how it would handle power bumps and such. It does boot up pretty fast. The HMI is reasonable and is seems to have solid security. There are several VPN options but I have only used the basic ones so I can't speak to how it will integrate with a larger VPN setup. It has a robust firewall and gives you lots of options for poking holes for services and ports etc.

I got it to work without too much trouble. It's not a perfect product, but its perfectly usable if you have sufficient technical knowledge.I'm using it with a cable modem through Cox Communications. Setting up basic IPv4 internet through the wizard was simple enough. I have not seen any performance issues, and the device has been stable.What works:- IPv4 NAT routing, the DNS proxy, assigning fixed IP addresses and local DNS names to a few machines on both IPv4 and IPv6.- keeping my DynDNS host DNS entry updated- allowing inbound services through port forwarding- Cisco Easy VPN works with my iPad (on T-Mobile at least)- Obtained access to IPv6 through 6to4 routing (Cox has not enabled IPv6 on the consumer side where I live)What's not so good:- the SSL VPN is not worth the trouble (these client-less VPNs all have problems, even the really expensive ones)- You can have only one VLAN with IPv6 as far as I can tell.- the documentation leaves quite a bit to be desired.All in all it's a decent device for the price. It's fine if you can live with its limitations.

I had been using a pair of cisco WRVS4400N routers to provide a VPN between my offices and internet and dhcp services to each local office for 6 years now. The routers had performed like a champ. I was starting to transmit more data between offices and transmit times were taking longer and longer. First, I increased my ISP bandwidth to no avail. Then I did some digging and found out that the WRVS4400n's had a max throughput of 2 Mbps when using the VPN which translates to about 250KBps. So increasing my upload speed from 3Mbps to 10Mbps didn't help once I realized my WRVS4400N's limitation. I did a lot of reading and wanted to stick with Cisco Small Business router series. I settled on the Cisco RV325 because depending on which specs you read I should get a minimum of 56 Mbps or if I hit the theoretical maximum I should be able to do 100 Mbps. Being my ISP is only 10Mbps even the lower number would work fine. I installed the routers and they have been working like a champ. I know have gone from a 50 hour data transfer to a 12 hour data transfer and general web browsing etc is much snappier. As a note, to migrate I created VPN's between the WRVS4400N's and the RV325 and that all worked fine for a transition with no incompatibilities. The most recent firmware is dated June 23, 2015 and the router has had 4 firmware upgrades that are available on the cisco support site. Being that it has been out for over 2 years now the firmware appears to be mature and with very few known bugs (none of which affect my business). At first I was hesitant to buy a router without Wi-Fi as I needed this but I decided to buy a separate Wi-Fi router and set it up as an access point. There are a few great advantages to doing that. 1. The wireless is offloaded to another box so my main router can concentrate on getting the traffic over the VPN as fast as possible. 2. As the Wi-Fi standards change I can swap out the access point and keep this router in place. I chose the ASUS RT-AC3200 Tri-Band Wireless Gigabit Router because the ASUS (RT-AC68U) Wireless-AC1900 Dual-Band Gigabit Router has been rock solid for a year and a half at my house. I love ASUS routers for wireless access.The RV325 supports up to 17 vlan's and I plan on using a few of them as I upgrade my services within my offices.Another nice thing about the RV325 is the fact that in addition to the GUI it has CLI. If your going to install several of these having the CLI will make scripting much easier.All in all I am extremely happy with this router I think it will serve my companies needs for years to come. If you have the WRVS4400n this is a great router to transition to.