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    Watchguard – Pros and Cons??

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    by lzhaol82 ·

    Hi guys

    i am thinking of getting a firewall for my company of 100 and so far Watchguard has been getting good reviews

    Can you all list the Pros and Cons of Watchguard??

    Thanks in advance

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    • #2459781

      Clarifications

      by lzhaol82 ·

      In reply to Watchguard – Pros and Cons??

      Clarifications

    • #2459711

      Sure…

      by bart777 ·

      In reply to Watchguard – Pros and Cons??

      Pro-
      1-Good workhorse. Very good firewall.
      2-Has LOTS of configurations that you can tweak to get the job done.
      3-Good support from Watchgaurd.

      Con-
      1-Has LOTS of configurations that you can tweak to get the job done. Yes this is a CON too. There are so many things you can change that it can be a bit cumbersome at times.
      2-It always wants to save a config copy before you do anything to the box. Thereason I put this under con is because ti will want you to do thsi even when you have no intention of making a single change.
      3-It likes to reboot about as often as NT4 did. You make a change, you reboot. It’s jut a matter of life. The device does come up quickly but this can inconvenience you users at times.

      All in all I like the device. I’ve been willing to put up with the reboots and configs since it is such a solid device.
      Hope this helps.

    • #2833880

      What did you decide? Did it work out for you?

      by elroy256 ·

      In reply to Watchguard – Pros and Cons??

      I bought the x55e and 2 x10e’s and setup a bovpn network. I have had less than outstanding results so far. I was wondering if the same happened to you?

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