From: 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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