SonicWall, worth it?

[westernmetaphor]

What is more important security and speed(by not having AV/Firewall installed on the PC) or speed of the router(by using a regular router)?

 

[smakme7757]

I'm not sure what you're really asking, but i would say this.

An antivirus with the windows firewall is more than good enough for most folks. Also modern systems don't suffer from a performance penalty with such programs installed. With the amount of processing power and ram we have it's just a non issue.

It's also good practice to have a NAT router between the internal network and the modem. This will then deflect any packets which do not have a destination in the internal network.

When you refer to the speed of the router i'm not sure what you're getting at, but any modern router will be fast enough for most consumer internet plans with the only exception being people with a fiber optic connection running overwireless where they might not get their full bandwidth through the wireless connection.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Personally for home I'd look at pfsense before Sonicwall. I have it running on an old Dell 1650 and it runs great. It's free.

 

[Apple Of Sodom]

I use SonicWALL for commercial installs. For the money you cannot beat the features. Content filtering, gateway AV, enforced AV installs, etc.

For my home network (and sometimes for very small offices that don't need advanced features) I use pfsense. I get mine from Netgate and they call their product m1n1wall.

http://store.netgate.com/-P218.aspx