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Netgear Cable/DSL Router Comparison Chart - 2001

Feature	RT311	RT314	RP114	RO318	MR314	FR314	FR318	FV318
Connectivity
WAN Ports 10Mbps Ethernet RJ45	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Local LAN Ports 10/100 Ethernet RJ45	1	4	4	8	4	4	8	8
Auto Uplink Ports			ü	ü	ü		ü	ü
Switch-selectable Uplink Ports						1
802.11b Wireless Access Point					ü
Firewall
Basic NAT Firewall	ü	ü	ü		ü
Stateful Packet Inspection for Protection against Denial of Service Attack				ü		ü	ü	ü
User-definable Packet Filters	ü	ü	ü
Content Filtering
Static Content Filtering and time-of-day use			ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Optional Dynamic Content Filtering (CyberNot)						ü	ü	ü
Reporting
Syslog	ü	ü
Email and Syslog			ü	ü	ü
Email						ü	ü	ü
Top 25 Sites						ü	ü	ü
Usage by client						ü	ü	ü
Usage by protocol						ü	ü	ü
User Count Licensing
Default	253	253	253	253	253	8	8	20
Optional upgrade to 20						ü	ü
Optional upgrade to 45						ü	ü	ü
VPN Support
PPTP pass-through	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
IPSec pass-through (single session)	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Hardware IPSec tunnels							1 (optional)	5
WAN protocols
IP/Ethernet	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
PPPoE	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
PPTP	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Builtin Login Clients
PPPoE (ADSL)	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
BigPond Advance Cable	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	Note 1	Note 1	Note 1
Networks Supported
BigPond Advance ADSL	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
BigPond Advance Cable	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	Note 1	Note 1	Note 1
BigPond Direct ADSL	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Optus@Home Cable	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Pacific Internet ADSL	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Primus ADSL	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
TransACT ADSL	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü

Note 1:    None of Netgear's F-Series routers (FR314, FR318, FV318) include a built-in login client for BigPond Cable, and like all NAT routers they are incompatible with Telstra's LaunchPad.  They do work seamlessly with the BPALogin and WinCable  alternative login clients.  This arrangement normally works best if there is one computer (eg a server) that is left running all the time, where the login client can be located.  See the FAQ's for more information.