Entered CNET Catalog: 08/05/2004
SKU: XC-DPG503
Manufacturer: XiNCOM Corporation
Manufacturer description
XiNCOM XC-DPG503 is a VPN capable Dual WAN Gateway with industry standard IPsec encryption. It provides extremely secure LAN-to-LAN connectivity over the Internet. The 503 supports VPN by encryption, encapsulation, and authentication using the following methods: DES/3DES/AES, MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-2; up to 50 IPsec tunnels are permitted. VPN connection redundancy is maintained by VPN Auto Failover. In the event of a VPN tunnel failing, the XC-DPG503 will re-establish the tunnel with the second WAN port connection. The XC-DPG503 has dual WAN ports that allow you to connect two broadband connections of any type, including Cable, DSL and/or T1 for ultimate redundancy via the automatic fail-over and increased bandwidth through load-balancing. With features like NAT, SPI Firewall, DHCP server and Access Filters makes this a must have all-in-one solution for any small to medium size network. This gateway is very easy to configure and managed with a HTTP graphical user interface (GUI), remote web management, e-mail alerts and SNMP. Additionally this router can be used within a network with support for Static Routing and RIP-1/RIP-2 Dynamic Routing. With the addition of UPNP you will be able to dynamically open and close ports required by certain software automatically. With QoS you will be able to schedule and direct your network traffic to take advantage of your available bandwidth.User opinions
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User Rating: 
3/10
nice router, sometimes, no support
Pros: for a dual wan router, it does the basice job
Cons: has intermittent behavior, Tech support never responds
Review:
I have two of these routers, with the intent of setting up a vpn connection to my office. The routers work. However I experience the occasionaly loss of connection, and either have to restart the router, or wait for it to recover. I have both cable and fiber connections. If you need dual wan, this may work for you, but as a basic router there are more robust routers out there. I have never once received a response from Xincom technical support in the last 3 months of sending requests.
