Well, got a nice promotion, and a 50% raise, so I treated myself to a new toy. A new Snapgear SME 550 to replace my old,slow Sonicwall Soho. I have an 8-9mb down and 1 mb up OOL cable line. I have a Sonicwall Pro 200 at work that I need a fast VPN tunnel too.
Paid $378 delivered for the Snapgear which completely blew everything else that was comperable out of the water (please don't post the Linkys, D-link,Netgear stuff, they arent close). I am talking PIX, SOnicwall SOHO3,netscreen,etc.
This TINY little Snapgear box is AWESOME. Have a rock stable, lightining fast 3DES VPN to my Pro 200 going. Has the typical Nat(and PAT) port forwading, Packet filtering, rules etup etc.
I absoultely luv this thing. The Soho cut my Thruput in half and no suck prob with the Snap Gear.
While not eas easy as the Sonicwall to config, it has A BOATLOAD more features then even the new SOHO3 at 2xs the price. Snapgear has no user limit or VPN tunnels licensing wise and the unit can handle and be configured to allow for 20,000 concurrent connects (vs. 6,000 for the SOHO3). Does DNS proxying AND can act as an NTP server for your LAN pc's among other things (can SSH.HTTPS into it, hook a modem up and DIAL into it, modem failover, etc).
The only thing it doesnt have (or I havent found it so far), is email of logs, but is easy to config a syslog server to push them to so no big deal.
ANYONE looking for a GREAT, absolutely tiny (slightly larger then my gigafast 8 port switch) firewall, a ton of features for under $500 (or even 400 if you know how to shop), GET THIS.
SME 550
Paid $378 delivered for the Snapgear which completely blew everything else that was comperable out of the water (please don't post the Linkys, D-link,Netgear stuff, they arent close). I am talking PIX, SOnicwall SOHO3,netscreen,etc.
This TINY little Snapgear box is AWESOME. Have a rock stable, lightining fast 3DES VPN to my Pro 200 going. Has the typical Nat(and PAT) port forwading, Packet filtering, rules etup etc.
I absoultely luv this thing. The Soho cut my Thruput in half and no suck prob with the Snap Gear.
While not eas easy as the Sonicwall to config, it has A BOATLOAD more features then even the new SOHO3 at 2xs the price. Snapgear has no user limit or VPN tunnels licensing wise and the unit can handle and be configured to allow for 20,000 concurrent connects (vs. 6,000 for the SOHO3). Does DNS proxying AND can act as an NTP server for your LAN pc's among other things (can SSH.HTTPS into it, hook a modem up and DIAL into it, modem failover, etc).
The only thing it doesnt have (or I havent found it so far), is email of logs, but is easy to config a syslog server to push them to so no big deal.
ANYONE looking for a GREAT, absolutely tiny (slightly larger then my gigafast 8 port switch) firewall, a ton of features for under $500 (or even 400 if you know how to shop), GET THIS.
SME 550
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