09-11-2014, 07:58 PM
Been using Watchguard (also) and Sonicwall for many years, but until recently, real life throughput hasn't been much of an issue. Now, w/ cable/fiber delivering WAN connectivity well in excess of older school firewall capability, it's time to put the eyeballs on newer school hardware. My gut says (hopes?) that throughput ought to get increased. In the past, I understood having to pay for mass connectivity and tunnels, and to some degree the bigger pipe that went w/ it. With everybody/more people getting bigger pipes, I'm looking for affordable bandwidth for a modest user base. Zyxel has units for about $400, but from what I've gleened, some of their stuff is very good, while some of their similar units not so much; more homework needed. Just not sure what's out there these days, but am looking forward to not being handicapped by current Sonicwall throughput, and hoping to do so at a price point that makes sense... if the crystal ball worked better, we'd know when the throughput per buck ratio was gonna get better.
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