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Preston Lee

Founder, CEO, OpenRain.com

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During the day I run OpenRain in Phoenix: a Ruby on Rails development shop. During the night... well... I still have to run OpenRain, but when I find time to breath, I exhale here. If you'd like to get in touch professionally, don't hesitate to contact me via the OpenRain website.

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Preston

Netgear FVS114 - Worst POS SOHO Router Ever

Some of the worst infrastructural issues OpenRain has had since inception has been border hardware. We’ve been through all typical COTS models you’d find at Best Buy, but all have had issues with at least one of..

  • Dropping inbound traffic due to some stupid “DDoS Protection” feature we couldn’t disable.
  • Not passing VPN traffic though to an internal server.
  • Crashing.

But this latest POS–the Netgear FVS114–really takes the cake. Check it..

  1. Log in to http://www.workingwithrails.com
  2. Visit http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/new
  3. Listen for the sound of everyone simultaneously screaming “WTF!? The ‘net’s down!”

We’ve reproduced this issue with FireFox and Safari from multiple machines inside the network. Way to go, Netgear! (Might want to get on this one.) I’ll be buying some real hardware online in about 15 minutes.

 

 

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. 06 Jun 08 | Computer
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Reader's Comments

  1. henri | June 6th, 2008 at 7:10 pm

    just slap 2 network cards in a small form factor pc and install pfsense or m0n0wall.

  2. preston.lee | June 10th, 2008 at 10:42 am

    The only issue with that is the time and experience it takes to maintain/change the thing. When it comes to OpenRain, time is so short right now that I would rather throw my wallet at the problem than spend the extra hours for the home-grown approach. Would be fun to finally use the Soekris for something though :)



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