SonicWall VPN Clients Reviews: 4.2/5 — Solid Choice

Offers a variety of options, ability to filter content and integrate that with Powershell to provide filters by user type are excellent.

Can be a bit clunky at times. We've had some issues with tunneling randomly going down.

Security & Content filtering

VPN functionality is pretty good. Throughput is decent on this device, does not slow internet down significantly. IPS and logging are great Site to Site VPN (IPSEC) Stable Firmware can auto update Backup settings are reliable Device is pretty easy to setup, I like the way the networks are setup, intuitive interface for multiple WAN connections.

The vpn should have web interface to log in by now. Product should have a little more of a security dashboard available. I would like a dash board that shows number of threats blocked per service, IPS, gateway anti virus and malware protection. Show me that the device is providing some ROI Subscription is a little expensive for a small business for all of the services. Renewal should have some way to email me like 90 days out so I'd know to plan to renew services. It seems like we find out too late to get renewal ready.

Site to site connectivity has been achived IPSEC dial up VPN has been helpful. Remote administration has complete interface.

Easy to understand basic settings for firewall beginners, Cloud storage feature for users is most useful.........

Tech support is not supportive on time, and the firewall does not have such advanced features as compared to industry-leading solutions i.e Fortigate, Sophos, PA

local user authentication, cloud storage for users, quick deployment, and upgrades also.

Cheaper option compared to other brands. Reliable way to do certain content filtering.

If you forget to add a specific object, be it an address object or service object, you need to close the rule creator, add the object and start creating the rule from scratch again.

It does basic firewalling stuff well. Content filtering, NATting, IPSec, and it has a local netflow collector to monitor the top talkers and top sites.

Relatively cheap appliance for most uses, easy port listing

Management interface could be better, note I have not used SonicOS 7 yet, but the 6.x versions are difficult for me to use

A good firewall and gateway appliance with decent content filtering. Stops what needs stopped

The two sonicwall firewall/security appliances my institution has used have both had some exceptional features and capabilities for their price range. We had some very astonishing experiences using these devices in terms of the safety and convenience that is offered by Sonicwall appliances.

Customer service from the Sonicwall technical support staff has been lacking since day 1, especially when utilizing their customer sales support staff recommendation for a replacement device when our first appliance failed in the middle of service year 7.

Sonicwall appliances offer a wide array of very functional and useful security features for network administration and subdivision, as well as a comprehensive filter, firewall, and other services for administering networks.

An incredibly powerful firewall with proactive threat protection. Supports the creation of multiple and isolated vlans. Has built in VPN capabilities, with a dedicated vpn client for Windows and the capability to enable an L2TP server for use on other systems. There are multiple hardware tiers for businesses of all sizes. With a subscription, threat protection rules and firmware are kept up-to-date. Support is quite good (and very necessary).

Doing any setup outside of the provided wizards is extremely difficult. Things such as port forwarding requires multiple steps adding and changing settings in 3 different locations. While both threat protection and support are great, they require an activation subscription with Sonicwall that can be quite pricey.

Used as the primary firewall/router, DHCP Server, VPN Server and vlan manager. It’s powerful features allow for creating a large, flexible and secure network.

SonicWall TZ 215 is fairly plug-n-play. Gives you the warm and fuzzies that your network is protected. Once in awhile I get an email that I think means everything is OK. We're a small shop, I'm paying network admin among other roles, and so plug-n-play is valuable. Um, what else. For the most part, I don't worry much about it, which is also a good thing.

Setup of this device - beyond out of the box fairly vanilla configuration - is not for the faint of heart. I would not recommend it to someone who didn't have the experience, time, and proclivity to wade around in the weeds of a cloodgy UI, a configuration model that, as far as I can tell, is unique to SonicWall, and status/monitoring/logging that somehow manages to be both saturating and devoid of much useful information. Perhaps someone who has more experience with SonicWall products, or network/security/admin in general, would have more success than I have had configuring the device for more sophisticated usage.

Our business has regulator compliance and auditing requirements that

My favorite part of the installation process thus far has been backing up my previous version's settings The embedded web server configuration feature is well organized and thought-out and always available. Configuration is straight forward and easy to setup. would surely recommend it to small & medium businesses that require security features and VPN links

they lock up, reboot, and log users out under even very light load. The big problem is that SonicWALL technical support is not just terrible, it is effectively non-existent.

Running public servers behind sonicwall firewall. Running VPN. monitoring bandwidth

SonicWall device performs well to distribute our network load for our office over 2 upstream providers.

SonicWall used to be lean and mean - since being purchased by Dell it hasn't seem to be moving as quickly.

Given that most websites are moving to HTTPS, the content protection afforded by the SonicWall is mostly useless unless you turn on DPI-SSL -- and that brings with it other issues (cpu load, deploying the local RootCA, etc)