New Cisco RV320 firmware

[coxhaus]

There is new Cisco RV320 firmware out with lots of fixes. I am planning to put it on my daughter's network as soon as I can get over there and take the network down.

 

[Trip]

Props to Cisco for logging all this stuff and making the resolution of these publicly accountable, but I do have to say, that's a fairly large chunk of previously broken functionality, a good portion of which directly effected multi-WAN and VPN, two very core capabilities, for years of product life up until just recently.

One could argue that at least these units are still receiving support after all this time, but the lack of QA to begin with is likely why you see lower reviews on these units, and why many of us prefer other products for specific functionality. Granted, nothing else in the segment is perfect; certainly not Ubiquiti, nor Mikrotik. Perhaps it's just telling that there is only so much perfect functionality one is going to get out of a $200-300 one-time purchase, regardless of the logo on the tin.

 

[coxhaus]

Yes the Cisco RV320 is a real old device. Yes it is a long list but it is sure nice to know your Cisco small business gear will be supported for a long time when you buy it new as I did many years ago. This also tells me Cisco is actively supporting it's small businesses products. Overall it gives me that warm and fuzzy feeling as far as security goes with my Cisco small business gear.

 

[Trip]

I'm not sure about warm and fuzzy, but just knowing that they even continue to publish (and honor) their End-of-Sale and End-of-Support dates, and do so with fairly consistent time frames, puts them light years beyond a lot of other would-be competitors. I can definitely agree on that part.

 

[coxhaus]

I'm not sure about warm and fuzzy, but just knowing that they even continue to publish (and honor) their End-of-Sale and End-of-Support dates, and do so with fairly consistent time frames, puts them light years beyond a lot of other would-be competitors. I can definitely agree on that part.

The RV320 router is still not EOS or EOL. It still is a fully supported router. It works fine as long as you don't have a gig internet connection which is still a small group.

 

[coxhaus]

I moved my daughter's RV320 business router over today to the new firmware. It seemed pretty painless.