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I am an unfortunate owner of a netgear prosafe FVS318 which is defective - all of them, according to what I've found online. It's just a bad batch of routers. So that said it was only on my network for about a week until it became unusable as the admin interface just disapeared onme.


Anyway, since I paid a bit over 100 bucks for this metal box, I want to do something creative with it. So everybody shoot me ideas and I will see which ones I can do, and take pics. (too bad I don't have a video camera though. )

Here are some things I thought of:

- use as a soldering surface
- use to wack someone accross the face, when I'm in am endangered situation
- use it to make fireworks by manupulating the voltage fed to it
- salvage the LEDs and put them in my case
- cut up the casing to make fan custom design grills (getho!!!)
- use the casing as an enclosure for my HDD enclosure (why? I don't know, just for fun)
- microwave it and see if the lights still blink when I plug it in the network
- microwave it on low to see if it fixes all the problems with it
- use it as a microwave dish to cook stuff on
- use it as a baseball bat
- nail it against the wall, open up the back, and use it to put in tools like screw drivers
- use it as door stopper (kind of huge though...)
- use it as a paper weight
- wire up the ethernet ports and use it as a mini patch panel (1337!)


Hmm can't think of anything else so feel free to throw in other ideas.

As for the adapter for it, I have a few ideas.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3706, old post ID:30097

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RETURN TO STORE??


Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3706, old post ID:30098

That’s too bad! Can you not return it?

It makes me very angry when I buy something that’s defective. I now try to gather as much information as I can before buying something major, especially computer parts. (Of course, the Internet has been a tremendous help!)

Anyway, I don’t have any ideas. It would be terrible if you destroyed it and then found advice on how to get it working again.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3706, old post ID:30099

Yeah would be nice if I could return it, but it's not defective in the sense that it got damage during shipping or that it's not acting like it should, it's just that model that's bad. So returning it is not an option unfortunatly.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3706, old post ID:30102

You try updating the firmware?

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3706, old post ID:30104

Yep nothing. I did lot of research and all I found is that others have the exact same issues as me. To me, netgear should have recalled that model a long time ago.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3706, old post ID:30105

If that whole model is defective, it is NO WHERE NEAR your fault. Because of this you SHOULD be able to return it. I'd raise hell.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3706, old post ID:30106

Yeah well I am pissed off at netgear but the policy from where I bought it is clear. It's kind of my fault since I never bother paying the extra 30 bucks or whatever it is for the warrenty, since it's never happened to me before that I buy something that does not work. That and I threw out the box since I kept it for a while then did a cleanup.

But netgear needs to get their ass in gear and recall this model, it's not right to sell something that does not work half the time. This is not a typical soho router, but more for businesses, so it can cost a buisiness tons of money as their VPN will be half ass.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3706, old post ID:30107

Assuming it was a fairly recent purchase I'd for sure take it back & talk to the manager regardless of what their policy is.

If they sell something that is innitially defective they have a responsibility to take it back.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3706, old post ID:30109

Yeah I tried contacting them about it but nothing. Thing is the reviews on the site are positive so I think they delete the negative ones. since at first it worked great, its about a week or so after where it starts crapping out.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3706, old post ID:30110

you gotta raise hell ... thay should at least replace it if its a lemon

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3706, old post ID:30114

Yeah I should (with my lawyer) force netgear to replace it with a cisco pix.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3706, old post ID:30115

Red Squirrel wrote: Yeah I should (with my lawyer) force netgear to replace it with a cisco pix. 

Don't they have something like the Better Business Bureau or Consumer Protection or the like up there in the Arctic?

I'd threaten the store with them & also tell them that you run a Tech site & that you will blog the s--- out of their store if they don't comply.

Tell them your site always comes up on Google first.



Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3706, old post ID:30119

The store (tigerdirect) has a good rep, and I'm not sure if they're even aware the product is defective but I'd sure like to tell them to take it off their catalog but I've tried to no avail.

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