You never suspect the hardware

I spent over 5 fucking, incredibly frustrating hours this evening trying to set up two brand spanking new Netgear FVG318 VPN routers.  Two small offices with a single VPN tunnel connecting them for file sharing.  I've done this dozens of times before on various platforms; it's normally not that hard.  The older Linksys VPN routers were starting to fail (nothing quite says "Good Morning!" like a Network Cable Unplugged message on all the users' desktops) so I got these.  They look good on paper, except they failed to mention that Netbios doesn't work over the VPN tunnel.  FUCK YOU, NETGEAR.  That's such a basic thing.  Now I have to redo all the mapped drives and desktop shortcuts.

Then the router at the main office starts freezing -- no Internet, I can't even ping the LAN side of the router.  Four times within an hour.  Yes, I've got the latest firmware (for whatever good it does).  Yes, I did a hard reset and put ALL the IP and VPN settings back in by hand and it STILL kept freezing.  Finally, I said the hell with it and got an RMA.  Fucking POC (piece of crap) blue plastic shits.

Yes, I'm in a lovely mood right now.  It's almost 11pm and I haven't even had dinner yet.