SONICWALL TZ370

My previous firewall was limiting my bandwidth and I wanted more ports. This was the perfect match for my needs at a reasonable price

product as described, and arrived promptly

Sonicwall is the best for expense. No issues at all.

This new OS is a joke. I am migrating all my clients off Sonicwalls. I tried to reach out to Sonicwall to get support for all the bugs in this new OS and they refused to help at all saying I need to buy a support contract to get help on overcoming all the bugs in their horrible new OS. I have never dealt with an "enterprise" product before. This is the last Sonicwall device I WILL EVER BUY. I did eventually identify the buggy feature and thankfully I was able to work around it with slightly reduced functionality. I am enjoying the Ubiquiti offerings at a fraction of the price with most of the features and so far NONE of the "undocumented/unsupported features" AKA Bugs.

2024 update - I've been using it for almost 2 yrs now, and still pretty happy with it. I just ended up turning off DPI-SSL, it's just too much of a hassle, breaks too many sites. Oh, what is that? It inspects encrypted packets, think https. Since so much traffic uses SSL these days, turning it off is a significant security hole. But still, the updates to the anti-virus sigs faster than anyone else, the rich feature set, the ability to partition your network in almost endless ways, great. But again, be prepared to do a lot of searching to figure out how to use most of the features. Groups, policies, etc., learn them or get nowhere. Pluses - fast, huge number of features, great management web UI. Minuses - expensive. Basic configuration works fine, but if you want advanced features, there are endless and very expensive licenses you have to buy. ZERO SUPPORT, that's another license you have to buy. Documentation is terrible, be prepared to do a lot of searching. All that said, it's turning out to be a very powerful firewall, but some features are a pain. Example, I've spent many hours getting DPI-SSL actually working. The major issue is the way it inspects ssl packets. It has to basically do a man-in-the-middle, which browsers (and many IoT devicces) interpret as an attack and won't connect. This is made worse by SonicOs 7 not letting you install a real certificate for its proxying, you can only use a local untrusted cert, which means that you can't fix the attack issue without installing the firewall's cert on every device that uses https. And, many IoT devices have no way of doing that. So, you end up spending many hours looking at firewall logs and adding site exceptions, which of course means that dpi doesn't happen for those sites. Lame! So, would I buy it again? Yes. If you want state-of-the-art hardware firewalling that really works at gig speeds, this is the one to get. Update - now that I've spent many hours adding dpi-ssl exceptions, enabling other security features, and actually paid for the basic gateway anti-intrusion, etc. pkg at $150/yr, I'm even more impressed. Of course, that's once you figure out how to turn it all on given the nonexistent documentation. It's hard to imagine how I could be more secure. (well, I do run software antivirus on my internal computers) This is for sure an enterprise-class firewall. And I'm just a home user. But a paranoid one. :) If you are also, go for it, but be prepared to spend about $750 with the extra license, and be prepared for much fun figuring out all the magic settings.