The firewall works great but when i try to use the VPN i run into all kinds of problems

This unit does the job for the price at giving my client a decent firewall at a cheap price... too bad it is not worth much as a VPN device.

OverallIt is a good firewall and router, but it is a poor VPN device with far too basic of features for any good use

Anyway, a firewall that does not let you block sites by URL or Keyword in this day and age is not worth having

This firewall works just as advertised and also has an on/off button so that you can turn it off instead of unplugging the power cord (which in the case of an old Netgear firewall led to the connector cracking on the power cord).

when I did what they asked and set up a NAT with no firewall rules it worked...which is OK if I am willing to accept that my server would be exposed to every script kiddie out there who discovered I have a device globally responding

Great little router and firewall by Cisco

I was looking for a relatively cheap (<$125) firewall that still had good WAN-LAN throughput.

Cisco needs to understand Small business doesn't mean subpar products, I would expect a product geared for small businesses to be as reliable as for large enterprises, the main differentiator needs be the scale of workload they can handle.