I am an admin on a medium sized network, and we currently use a SONICWALL ROUTER/FIREWALL, and have been having significant internet connectivity issues. We often loose all internet connectivity for apparently no reason, we lose our VPN connection often, and our connection speeds suck! Our line is supposed to be a 10 meg line but with the sonicwall connected we get 2meg down at best! Sometimes we get 9meg when we connect directly to the sircuit with a laptop. At first we figured it was the ISP’s(XO) fault, but it seems like out London office has some of the same issues because their firewall is always going down as well.
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My question is, are SONICWALL firewalls pieces of trash, or is it an isp issue? Our ISP says we must use a layer 3 routing device, and recommends we only use CISCO routers, namely the 2200, 1700, or 7206. Is this our best option? If we should only go the CISCO route, than are there any other CISCO routers, or router firewall combinations that would work well for us.
