Cisco RV345P 

Definitely do that VPN video. Would be very interesting!

The 3.5" floppy save icon should stay in use forever!!!! :-)

YES! Please do separate video on VPN setup.

Good job. I am a Cisco small business user and I use the RV340 router because I run a Cisco layer 3 switch for many years.

I used a RV325 for quite awhile at home and it was very nice. I accidentally bricked it (my fault) during a firmware update on a Sunday night at 7PM and had someone on the phone and a replacement unit on its way to my house within 20 minutes after a couple of troubleshooting tasks they had me perform. Overall I am a big fan of the Cisco Small business SG250/SG350 switches and the current RV line of routers. I've had 4 SG250-26P switches installed at our offices now for a couple of years and other than reboots for firmware updates they are never rebooted and do everything we need them too with no issues. I also have 2 of the SG250-26P switches and a SG350-28P switch at home and again no issues. I now have a couple of HP switches at my house as well (a 1950 and a 2930F) that I bought as I like to tinker and they have both been good so far except the Cisco and even EdgeSwitch interfaces are better. The 2930F is especially bad, however, it's more meant for CLI control from what I've been told rather than the GUI. I also have 3 Netgear GS510TP switches at home and they have been great as well except that the interface is from 1999 LOL. The VLAN configuration process is absolutely HORRIBLE in them compared to any of my other switches, however, it does work. I had to reboot my ES-16-XG the other day after 65 days of up-time because it decided to not pass traffic for some reason over a single LAG after I rebooted the remote switch. Every other LAG was fine except for one of them. Rebooting the EdgeSwitch fixed it...no idea why but it's never had a problem until then.

Good to you see your here after SANGOMA training.

i bought a RV345 and it is nice and works perfectly after I understand how to configure..It took me a lot of days in order to find suitable explanations and docs for full vpn functions..

You went through a lot to put this together, thank you!

This looks much better than the Cisco devices we have at my work. Ubiquiti still has a place in my heart

Yes , plz a separate video on vpn setup

I like that hardware spec, number of switch ports with 2 x WAN & POE support. Like you I havent touched Cisco since early 2000's.

The newer Cisco enterprise boxes have micro / mini USB console ports along with old style console ports.

Guy kept begging us not to judge😂😂 Well done crosstalk man🙌

I, for one, would love a video on how you set up the VPN between the Cisco and the EdgeRouter.

Negative points for not having a screw-in power supply connector to the unit like the SG-3100.

I would like to see how you did your edge router to cisco VPN...I’ve done some of that and always came away with a bad taste for edgerouter VPNs as far ask using the newer security

great review as usual. would really love to see the vpn setup thx.

Hi chris great video. Please do more.

CISCO lol i wonder whats next lol please do Mikrotik too... Love your work man

"I haven't used their support but I'm sure it's fine" Hahahahahahah.

Yes. We are definitely interested in how to set up a VPN. 'Site to site' and 'client to site'.

If it is as stable as the SG switches, I would not be worried to have one. (except I have a different brand right now, that I feel meet my requirements) Have used SG300 switches in installs since 2010/11, and so far less than 5% with errors (and those were all due to lightning strikes)

Can you try some more reviews on MikroTik equipment? They got a very nice interface. I personally feel they fall right below cisco but still give you the nice enterprise features not to mention stability

Excelent presentation. If possible I would like to see a start to finish configuration on a VPN in a RV 340

VPN throughput depend on the confirgured ciphers. That AES-CBC 128-SHA1 you use in phase 2 is only single threated and most likely slower in throughput. Try AES-GCM-256 if your Cisco and other FW offers that cipher. You might need to enable IKEv2 as well. And can you confirm that your other firewall is not bottlenecking the VPN? Good job so far.

Had a RV320 in production at a customers site. One day when looking through the logs I found that the whole config had been dumped in plain text as part of an attack vector. Cisco had a new version of firmware that addressed this but it had only been out about 2 weeks and had already had the config dumped 4-5 times. This included admin, VPN, DYNDNS and Gmail account credentials. Needless to say it's now in the truck as a temporary hot-swap router and where not buying any Cisco RV series routers.

Please do some throughput tests while IPS is enabled. This will help alot of folks out. Thanks!

Ok, how about Unify access points with the RV345P?

A separate video on the VPN setup would be nice tnx

Do you mind showing the RV345p router CLI? Is it ios-like?

Can you do a video about configuring a SonicWall with the Unifi Controller and a guest Network?

Yes, a separate video on Cisco Umbrella would be great.

I hated all the other rv firewalls lets see if this redeems them

Chris, please check connecting VOIP phone.

Cisco is AWSOME!

VPN setup vid pls!!... Great review of this product. I’ve been a massive Cisco fan since their SOHO units. Cisco routers & Switches are absolutely fine. You don’t have to get their licenses. Some of their earlier models are very predatory though in regards to what services they should be providing out of the box, but require license instead. You just have to do your research before purchasing. But it seems that the market has taught this company some very important lessons as is evident with their new models.

Could you do a video on a Cisco voip phone?

I would like to see something on Cisco Umbrella service.

Chris, what about the console cable? Also, I did check and I found out that unless you're going to be using Cisco umbrella, then there are no licensing fees.

Will your friends at Cisco provide a new Catalyst 1000 SMB switch for review? Curious to see how it compares to the UniFi Gen 2.

Hi my isp sends a cat6 direct to my router! So can i use this router to configure login to my isp and key in password? Or do i need another modem for that?

I was thinking of putting this into my Girlfriend's house, but since the UDM came out, may go with the UDM and Unifi Switch 8 150w instead. NEED - Router, 4+ POE+ ports (Cameras and UAP-AC-Pro).

OMG all that functionality!!! It even has a PPTP VPN!!! I wish my PFSense box that costs a third of this price would have all that.

Do you know if VPN needs licensing? I saw a video, 2 years old, mentioning that in order to use VPN one would have to purchase a license.

We use Cisco Umbrella at work (large enterprise). Properly setup, it's brilliant at what it does. But support is rubbish. It's not Cisco TAC that we are all used to.

Nice looking product... but I lost my love and trust for the RV line after the two big issues with the RV320 & 325 CVE-2019-1653 - allows a remote attacker to get sensitive device configuration details without a password. CVE-2019-1652 - allows a remote attacker to inject and run admin commands on the device without a password. Best part is how long it took for a true fix

Have you tested NAT and Latency? This would be great for home networks that have dual WAN 1GB FIOS or comcast.. But how does it handle gaming? Some people don't want expensive gaming routers with wifi built in.

Is it too much router for home use? I don’t think so, just not for noob use unless you’re learning. * * * Does anyone know how Chris set up the mouse for these videos? It’s the easiest cursor to see in my opinion and I can’t find anything with transitions such as this.

I do't know in what cisco device you got this fancy usb to rj-45 console cable but I personally unboxed like 30 cisco ISR 4331 routers and all of them had this old type cable.

16:38 O_O 6000 watts!!!! That's a power hungry Ubiquiti device :D

Very nice presentation. Better then cisco presentations. We need you to show us how to setup vpn using cisco anyconnect. Thank you

Hi! I have become a fan of anonymity. But I'm still a beginner. How Anonymus does this Cisco RV345P provide when connected to an Internet service? Is it better Than a VPN service? What do you think about it?

I think the password quirk is caused as a result of the 'password aging time' setting which is set default to 180 days. If unpack, connect and powerup the router for the first time, my bet is that at the moment you setup the password for the first time, the internal clock is not set to current yet, so the internal clock is set far in the past. Next time you login when the time is set to current, the router 'thinks' it's over 180 days later :-).

I want a video on that picture frame I see in every video!

This had a release date of 16-JUN-2016. Almost 4yrs old already....

can you do a video using dual wan thanks

Needs rack mount ears for that power brick.

Would love to see the VPN setup

The second password was probably the enable password. Cisco devices have a users name and password used for the web interface and ssh and then an enable password needed to make command prompt changes.

Are these the ones that have a Web GUI only? Like they don't actually run Cisco IOS fully; if so they have some very weird configuration limitations. The price of the non-POE version vs the USG Dreammachine Pro is no match.

How long (in Years) can this router function before it starts to drop the connection, and need to be replaced? Since I regularly need to change the router in 2 years as they all start to drop the connection. I have been replacing my routers since 2014. I have not tried Cisco routers. Please could you confirm the lifetime expectancy of this Cisco RV340 Router? Informative video, great work keep it up.

I have used Cisco for years - I have always loved their products. I’ve switch to Ubiquiti (UniFi) because of the emote Managment eco structure. Is there a “cloudkey” type solution for this device? Other than knowing the WAN ip and enabling remote management? Thanks Chris, always like your videos.

Hi my friend! It was a great review!!! Would you say if without a license I could use the VPN server without restrictions? What exactly this license impact? Thank you!!!

I use 9 pin serial every day at work, but yeah not common any more :)

Please make S2S vpn video Would love watch you doing that 😍

I’ve standardized using this router with UniFi on several of medium businesses I support. Cisco has through the years gotten the firmware stable to where I recommend the product. Always remember to save the config after making any changes otherwise you lose the changes in a reboot

Do the Security Services require something like an annual paid subscription?

Please make the VPN Video Thanks

When you can, separate vpn setup video please.

bleh. I've been burnt by cisco small business products before, particularly RV series devices. . Buggy firmware and GUI makes these units incredibley frustrating to program and use. Never Again.

CISCO?? Is Arista next? Would be cool to see a Cisco ASA review.

Hey chris, I'm planning a 5 site on different geographic location to be connected over the same asterisk server hosted locally at HQ. i was wondering if we can use asterisk over office to office VPN ( standard broadband at each remote location, no static IP as of now ). Also, my each site will have only FXS connected to a giga bit switch then to some VPN Enabled router cisco or something else.. is it possible also will the voice quality suffer ? Looking for 10 - 15 concurrent calls from each office. I'm desperately waiting for a VON setup video using actually 2 different ISP and 2 router like completely separate of each other from start to end.

Chris, what about showing us the new Unifi flex mini switch..curious what your thoughts are for SMB use...

“Cmon Chris” 😂😂 it’s called a rollover cable.

Chris, are you a cisco expert?

Can i find anywhere experience reports from users of this product?

3:01 you can't threaten people with that, it doesn't make sense that a warranty won't be given if you don't buy it from an official supplier. In Australia, this is illegal, you have to provide a warranty for a product and it has to be reasonable, which is written into law. So if someone sells you a Cisco router, it automatically has a 'statutory warranty' based on the price and type of product which overrides any warranty they might list even on the product page, and the retailer must honour that warranty.

The power brick reminds me of the xbox power brick that goes up in flames.

vpn setup and client to site setup please with cisco AnyConnect.

I buy this router after your review . Nice piece of hardware and with “cosco” name on it is great. But is a router with 2 wan at 1gbps each an a lot of gigabit ports - throughput 900mbps ( dont know what conditions are) can do load balance but not bounding . The best thing is this router has some functions like security, web filtering , content filtering etc ONLY IF YOU BUY A LICENSE!!! I try to buy it ( I dont know how much is it ) and the support exist :) they send you tons of emails with many many questions and nice words .. But you spend days talking via email with different ppl from cisco and you break you down! You quit , is exhausting! So dont buy this piece of .. hardware if want a clean and nice life

That is pretty cool they got away from crazy licenses for those smaller units

We purchased 2 of these units and they are full of bugs and can't handle more than about 25 users. To many features and not enough CPU and memory. The licencing blows it self out every couple of weeks and I have to re-licence them and then reconfigure the security features. The units must be re-started daily or the GUI interface goes out to lunch and will not allow you to login. Only way to get back in is to flip the power switch to recover. Cisco just released a new firmware version that I hope will improve the performance and licencing issues. Not worthy of the Cisco name!

I’m pretty sure the Cisco USB to RJ45 is an aftermarket product The Cisco USB to mini USB is legit

Put a Cisco RV VPN router in a small business. Piece of junk. Not sure why it needed rebooting every second day, but I think it had something to do with the DNS cache overflowing. Replaced it with an Edgerouter, no issue since. Even the SG200-18 Cisco switch is weird, many steps to upgrade firmware and now takes about 6 minutes to cold boot. Stay well away from their SMB range - it's just Linksys junk with a prettier face.

why the router is called firewall all the time ?

plz do a site to site vpn tutorial

"You would not have this in your home". I'm running a Cisco ASA in my house. It's configured by command line. Granted I got it from work surplus and I learned how to configure them at work so it's not a fair comparison

Hey guys. Can someone help me configure Zulu 3 in the freepbx and desktop. I’m try many times. Please 😂😂😂

The old RV stuff was hot garbage. It had the Cisco badge, but constantly received far less attention than any of the full grade cisco products. I hope they've adjusted this with the new products.

In ONE day the price goes up, guess they are hoping to sell some.

Is that a weed plant?

The VPN is frankly no use without Anyconnect Client Licence package as you will go insane trying to configure L2TP/IPsec or IPsec Client-to-Site tunnels on windows. IPsec Works ok with Mac/iOS inbuilt cisco IPsec client but good luck getting any other platform connecting with jumping through some hoops.

The latest Cisco product fresh out of the NSA TAO implant center.

Definitely not a Cisco fan! Cisco are only interested in you if you are an enterprise customer, which many of your subscribers are not. We tend to look after SMB clients, hence choosing Unifi as the central management makes life so much easier. The only way you'll get that with Cisco, is to go for Meraki, which brings back their stupid enterprise licensing model. Like the idea suggested by Penwell Dlaminii of looking at Microtik though.

one thing I wish that Unifi had, that cisco has. It would be MAC port security.

Without doubt their products are great, I just cant stand their ridiculous licensing business model when there's plenty of license free manufacturers products that are as good if not better.

Noo. Tried a few overpriced and quality lacking Cisco small business devices and do not plan and have absolutely no need to buy anything they offer. (Plenty open source and less greedy/arrogant solutions/vendors).

VPN Video please

cisco support is to notch I have used it being in an it company and no other networking equipment manufacture compares to it. It is why you pay a premium for cisco. Where I work we push the meraki equipment though yes it is $80 a year for the licence and if yo don't pay it stops working but think of it as a warranty as they are under warranty as long as they are licanced and they will replace the equipment when it dies even if it is 15 or 20 years old.

It’s all fun and games until you get a 90 day license expiration. It’s a hidden gotcha just an FYI.