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Cisco Rv042g 4-port Gigabit Dual Wan Vpn Router Firewall

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Brand Cisco
Special features WPS
Wireless communication standard 802.11bgn
Compatible devices Personal Computer
Recommended uses for product Business
Connectivity technology Ethernet
Item weight 1 Pounds
Operating system Windows
Security protocol WPA PSK
Number of ports 6

About this item

  • 4-Port switch
  • Gigabit LAN
  •  Firewall protection

Product details

  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 5.08 x 20.32 cm; 453.59 g
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ 12 June 2020
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008CWW6VY
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ RV042G-NA
  • Customer reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 182 ratings

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Product description

The Cisco RV042G Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Router delivers highly secure, high-performance, reliable Internet connectivity to your small business network.

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Pato
5.0 out of 5 stars Puedes conectar mas de 500 dispositivos
Reviewed in Mexico on 8 August 2019
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Craig B
5.0 out of 5 stars amazing dual wan router
Reviewed in Canada on 8 May 2019
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Even before being acquired by Cisco - this was the best dual WAN router - glad to see that Cisco has kept this product and continued to support it! still the best
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AnniePanda
5.0 out of 5 stars Router is fast and easy to setup.
Reviewed in the United States on 19 February 2018
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I live in rural America, and recently was forced to move our internet "airwave-line-of-site" antenna from the top of our house to a location on top of a hill on our property 500' from the house. Our internet provider decided we weren't important enough to maintain the service we had finally achieved after over 10+ years with the antenna on top of our house, and realigned his antennas to point to his other much newer customers. I had raised the antenna 15' above the house on a home-built unistrut tower that included heavy safety eyes for attaching a safety harness, steps, and a tool shelf at the top. I was faced with building a new tower on top of the hill, running power, and somehow getting the network service back to the house. I decided, because we have moles and ground squirrels, (they've eaten through the power line insulation buried 6 ft deep to our well twice) to run only a power line and use bridge antennas to beam the service from the tower back to the house.

To do this, I needed a small router to connect to our internet service and the bridge antenna on top of the hill. I selected the CISCO dual Gigabit Router, because I didn't need a wireless router, but it had to be small enough to fit in an outdoor breaker box enclosure along with the power supplies for the router, the internet service provider's antenna, and my bridge antenna.

I plugged my laptop into port 1, my internet service antenna into the "Internet" port, and my bridge antenna into port 2. Following the quick setup instructions, and selecting the option that allows a username and password to be used to login to my internet service provider's server, I was up an running within a couple minutes. No software installation was necessary.

I signed on to my Ubiquiti bridge antenna using my cell phone's wifi, allowed it to select a default IP address, entered the MAC address for the antenna on the house, and immediately could see that I had internet service beaming to the house. I went back to my house, changed my wireless router's setup from its original setting of attaching to the internet provider's server, to just being assigned an IP address automatically by the CISCO router. Finally, after 2-1/2 months we have internet service in our home once again. Not knowing too much about the latest in networking, I couldn't believe how easy it was to get the router communicating with my internet service provider's server, get the bridge antennas to talk to each other, and link back into my wireless router in the house. My service is as fast as it ever has been even though I now have my new CISCO router and two Ubiquiti antennas added in between. I can't talk to how long this CISCO router will last in an unvented 6" X 22" X 24"outdoor steel breaker box enclosure, but for now, it works great. If the summer heat kills the router, I'll deal with venting the box when the time comes. $100 for the CISCO router is peanuts compared to what it cost to run 520' of underground 30 amp power line and build a new tower. If I get 6 months with this router (with basically unlimited data), It's far better than paying $160/month and maxing out at 60 Gig for satellite service that isn't suitable for continuous on-line database management.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Bought a lot of these RV042G, a few of ...
Reviewed in Canada on 27 April 2018
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Bought a lot of these RV042G, a few of them failed after a while. It is not as reliable as should since it is advertised as business router.
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F. L. Junior
5.0 out of 5 stars Have 30 forwarding ports
Reviewed in the United States on 28 August 2013
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This is a spec that you wont find for most of routers
I did spend months searching for that, and had to buy one to find out
For those to think "what is this forwarding ports important for?", it is the only way you can have one IP camera working online, or even a DVR or a Cloud based NAS ( a kind of HD drive in your home or opffice that you can acess from outside, from internet.
The catch is that for each IP camera you have, you must have it's own forwarding port set in router
So you set router to receive a call from some port ( IE port 80, 81, 81 etc) and forwarding it to the fixed IP you previosly set your camera ( IE. 192.168.1,XX)
In my case, I have more than 15 of them, including IP cameras, DVRs, Bit torrent forwarding ports, and cloud Nas
And tplinks have only 15 ports availables
But be aware:
This cisco have 30 ports, but none can act as UDP and TCP at once
If you nedd to set both to the same IP, you will have to use 2 of those 30 ports, one for UDP and other for TCP
Fortunately, I discoverde that those IP cmaeras, like Foscam and clones, work fine with only TCP or UDP, and dont need the 2 of them set to work
The forwardinfg set is somehow anoying, because you need to set the UDP and TCP ports before set them to one IP
Besides this, this router runs fine, and heats only a litle ( runs warm to cold)
And of course, have no WIFI abilities, but you can hook a wifi router after it.
Just hook one of this cisco's 4 rear ports to one of the 4 rear ports of some wifi router and disable DHCP from this wifi router and you will be set
You can use as much wifi routers this way, after the main router, covering all your home / office area if you need ( every router can do this, not only this cisco, but is important to say this in this review because this cisco have no wifi abilities, and this is the way to solve this)
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