I have to agree. It seem that these hardware boxes that try to do 'all in one' services (Routing, NAT, Firewall, AV, Content-Filtering, Spam)... seem to fall on their face. I know of a consultant buddy of mine who implemented it, and hated every second of it. He is still cursing at it when it fails (AD Connector stops working requiring manual resets of the box, etc,).
-IL [email protected] wrote: > I had some very bad experiences with SonicWall and their service/ > support. For one thing their basic content filter package was useless > because it did not block proxy sites. They expected us to pay hundreds > more a year for their premium filter package just to get the > functionality of their basic package to work. Discussions with > customer service/tech support fell on deaf ears. There were heated > discussions on the forum (everyone was fed up with SonicWall) but > SonicWall wouldn't budge. We got a little response from them when I > suggested to the forum that perhaps this topic would be a good start > for a class action lawsuit. I was using one of their lowest end > products at the time so maybe they give better support for their > higher end products. However I would never use SonicWall again. > There's many other competitors out there. There's a few products which > I don't recall the name of but they're specifically geared to > scholastic/library settings. > > For our filtering needs we switched to Untangle. Another we used and > liked was Astaro. > > Greg > > On Aug 13, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Jason Hensley wrote: > > >> Sonicwall has some outstanding products as far as an all-in-one >> appliance >> for firewall, content filtering, spam, virus, etc etc. I have one >> in place >> for a school and our local library. Make sure you get one with enough >> horse-power. A small school may work fine with a TZ-200 or TZ-190, >> but you >> get very large, and you will quickly end up needing more than that. >> >> Be glad to quote you out one if you needed. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> On >> Behalf Of Scott Carullo >> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 10:35 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [WISPA] Content Filter Suggestion for School >> >> >> I need a web content filter for K-12 school. Paid Subscription ok. >> >> Please let me know what good products there are for this >> requirement. Need >> asap. Thanks... >> >> Scott Carullo >> Brevard Wireless >> 321-205-1100 x102 >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
