SonicWall devices
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Sonicwalls are not really generally considered to be great, just well marketed. Lower end devices popular with people looking to bundle them with server sales. They sell based on the name. Not considered bad, but not considered good.
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Speedtest.net generally does a pretty good job reporting on your line. Nothing can ever be the whole story, networking is too complex for that. But it gives a good, useful picture.
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Honestly I don't know why more SMBs don't consider Pfsense. They rule it out as "home grade" or something. But it's cheap (free aside from hardware) and P4 or core, or iseries will run it with ease. I've ran them very successfully with many VPNs (10gb throughput) and it has great firewall, vlan and limiting settings. even scheudling on the limiting so you can open it up for nightly updates to run full speed when no one is on the network.
Sonic wall is something I'd stay away from. Ubiquiti has good stuff. Cisco does as well, but IMO cisco is becoming less and less attractive in the market as others come up with better priced/feature units than cisco offers.
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MRTG on your side + on the ISP side will give you a good picture of what does on,
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pfSense is pretty good. Much better than many expensive options.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Sonic wall is something I'd stay away from. Ubiquiti has good stuff. Cisco does as well, but IMO cisco is becoming less and less attractive in the market as others come up with better priced/feature units than cisco offers.
I have to agree with this. Cisco has really lost their edge.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Honestly I don't know why more SMBs don't consider Pfsense. They rule it out as "home grade" or something. But it's cheap (free aside from hardware) and P4 or core, or iseries will run it with ease. I've ran them very successfully with many VPNs (10gb throughput) and it has great firewall, vlan and limiting settings. even scheudling on the limiting so you can open it up for nightly updates to run full speed when no one is on the network.
Sonic wall is something I'd stay away from. Ubiquiti has good stuff. Cisco does as well, but IMO cisco is becoming less and less attractive in the market as others come up with better priced/feature units than cisco offers.
The only reason I do not run pfSense is because I want a small simple hardware device, and Ubiquiti fits that for me. Prior to finding the Ubiquiti EdgeRouters, I was using pfSense on old hardware. Prior to that I was using ClearOS.
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Very true. pfSense only makes sense if you have existing hardware to reuse.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
MRTG on your side + on the ISP side will give you a good picture of what does on,
Sorry .. What? What is MRTG -...
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@Reid-Cooper said:
Very true. pfSense only makes sense if you have existing hardware to reuse.
@JaredBusch said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Honestly I don't know why more SMBs don't consider Pfsense. They rule it out as "home grade" or something. But it's cheap (free aside from hardware) and P4 or core, or iseries will run it with ease. I've ran them very successfully with many VPNs (10gb throughput) and it has great firewall, vlan and limiting settings. even scheudling on the limiting so you can open it up for nightly updates to run full speed when no one is on the network.
Sonic wall is something I'd stay away from. Ubiquiti has good stuff. Cisco does as well, but IMO cisco is becoming less and less attractive in the market as others come up with better priced/feature units than cisco offers.
The only reason I do not run pfSense is because I want a small simple hardware device, and Ubiquiti fits that for me. Prior to finding the Ubiquiti EdgeRouters, I was using pfSense on old hardware. Prior to that I was using ClearOS.
I have a Ubquiti Lite router for one site,.. just haven't had much luck with decypher it yet.. Of course when you have one crisis after another (Yes, I do know it's the IT world... it's a daily thing) I need some decompression time.
I like Untangle for the same basic reasons it would appear that pfSense is out,.. Open Source and free....
As for size,.. shame the Raspberry Pi isn't 'big enough' to run as a FW with either..
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@g.jacobse why is open source out? support can be purchased for both solutions you mention.
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@JaredBusch said:
@g.jacobse why is open source out? support can be purchased for both solutions you mention.
Hmm,... 'out' is the incorrect word.. I'd rather go OpenSource as opposed to the Big Box software/hardware...
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@g.jacobse Raspberry Pi is big enough to run as a router.
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@g.jacobse Ubiquiti Edge RouterLite is open source too.
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Untangle, pfSense, Ubiquiti...all good, low cost choices.
