Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)This is one of the best priced and most feature rich routers I've ever used. I've used sonic walls about 5 years in the past and we had a linksys dual wan router before this. Once we needed more than one external ip the linksys just couldn't cut it. The firewall would either be fully off or fully on with secondary ip's, so we had to find another solution. Having used sonic walls in the past I looked at them first but a price/feature comparison lead me straight to the ZyWall USG100.
Setup for the device seems complicated at first, with assigning ip's to machines, ports to groups, and other things that I've not encountered with a firewall before. But these extra steps in the beginning save so much time later on. Instead of having routes and many firewall rules assigned to an ip, you would assign it to a virtual object stored in the zywall which has all of it's information. So when a change to the machines ip is required you don't have to go in and change every single rule and route, you just modify the virtual object and your done.
So far it's done everything we've needed and suprised us with its flexibility. And it would have 5 stars from me except for one slight failing. The vpn setup is a bit unruly when it comes to macs. Just for a standard vpn it requires a free 3rd party program (ipsecuritas) with a bit of setup that a normal user would balk at. Also the ssl vpn which ZyXEL boasts about is just a no go for macs, it just isn't supported.
It's a great product for a great price. It does everything well except for the vpn working with macs. If they can fix that then they would get 5 stars from me.
Click Here to see more reviews about: ZyXEL ZyWALL USG100 Unified Security Gateway Firewall w/50 VPN Tunnels, SSL VPN, 7 Gigabit Ports, and High Availability
Zyxel ZyWALL USG 100 Security Appliance ZWUSG100 Network Security & Firewalls
Get 43% OFF
0 comments:
Post a Comment