Small Business firewall / Sonicwall vs. Fortigate vs. anything else - opinions please

[rezn0r]

Hello,

I want to and got the go-ahead to upgrade our router/firewall. We are currently on a "high end" Netgear which just plain sucks for what I want to do. I have a few friends with more grown up hardware experience saying go Sonicwall (was looking at the TZ 215), my gf's brother who deals with this stuff full time says go Fortinet/Fortigate, and I've seen a few strangers online recommend certain Cisco models and Sophos (formerly Astaro).

Basically the features and price of the Sonicwall TZ 215 looked great to us and I was about to order one until her brother told me to stop. Now I'm wondering what our best option really is. A lot of forums I've found make it sound like Fortigate is technically a little more secure, but Sonicwall is nicer to deal with.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks.

[Kurokikaze]

Never really used a Fortigate so I'm gonna go ahead and suggest the SonicWall. Been using them for a while now and they're pretty simple to set up and offer a lot of good features. Plus you get like 2 Global VPN licenses with purchase. Also if shit goes wrong - SonicWall support is top notch.

Just keep in mind that making a change somewhere doesn't mean that it automatically sets up the appropriate NAT policy for that rule. Remember this and you wont rage.

[rezn0r]

Thanks Kuro, if he doesn't get back to me today with a good reason & alternate model to get from Fortinet I'll probably go ahead with the TZ 215.