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First off, I can find my way around my computers but do NOT consider
myself a power user or expert by any means. That said.....
A friend gave me a FVS318 router that looks brand new. He owned it for
about a year and used it only as a firewall router. The firmware is V
2.4. I now have it installed in my home network and it works flawlessly
as a router and network switch for the 4 computers on our network.
I would like to be able to establish a secure VPN connection to my home
network and access the computers there when I travel (often). I am
running a peer-to-peer network using XP home on 2 of the computers and
XP Pro on the other 2. I use XP Pro on one of the office machines and my
notebook that travels with me. My IP address from BellSouth is static
and all of my computers on the network are set to static addresses. I
have a 3mb/sec DSL account at my home.
I have tried EVERYTHING I can find on the Netgear website for using the
XP Client (which Netgear told me will work with "no problem"). No luck.
I have followed the proceedure on their website SEVERAL times and I
can't get the thing to work at all.
If anyone has some clear instructions for setting up the XP client and
the FVS318 I would really appreciate some help. Also any advice you
might have for being able to browse and access my network while
traveling would be great! Feel free to email me at the address on this
post. Just remove the OBVIOUS "nospam" in the address.
Thanks in advance for your help. From what I have read in researching
this, it is a pretty common problem that Netgear seems unwilling to
address in a simple and logical manner. Think maybe they want all of us
to buy their VPN client instead of using the FREE one we already have???
rolandcsmith@nospamyahoo.com
First off, I can find my way around my computers but do NOT consider
myself a power user or expert by any means. That said.....
A friend gave me a FVS318 router that looks brand new. He owned it for
about a year and used it only as a firewall router. The firmware is V
2.4. I now have it installed in my home network and it works flawlessly
as a router and network switch for the 4 computers on our network.
I would like to be able to establish a secure VPN connection to my home
network and access the computers there when I travel (often). I am
running a peer-to-peer network using XP home on 2 of the computers and
XP Pro on the other 2. I use XP Pro on one of the office machines and my
notebook that travels with me. My IP address from BellSouth is static
and all of my computers on the network are set to static addresses. I
have a 3mb/sec DSL account at my home.
I have tried EVERYTHING I can find on the Netgear website for using the
XP Client (which Netgear told me will work with "no problem"). No luck.
I have followed the proceedure on their website SEVERAL times and I
can't get the thing to work at all.
If anyone has some clear instructions for setting up the XP client and
the FVS318 I would really appreciate some help. Also any advice you
might have for being able to browse and access my network while
traveling would be great! Feel free to email me at the address on this
post. Just remove the OBVIOUS "nospam" in the address.
Thanks in advance for your help. From what I have read in researching
this, it is a pretty common problem that Netgear seems unwilling to
address in a simple and logical manner. Think maybe they want all of us
to buy their VPN client instead of using the FREE one we already have???
rolandcsmith@nospamyahoo.com
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