Re: Advice Please Sonicwall or IPCop

From: NeoSadist (neosad1st_at_charter.net)
Date: 12/17/03 

Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:26:17 -0700

Andy@nospam.co.uk wrote:

> I have been using a Netgear FR318 for about 2 years now quite happily.
> Unfortunately Netgear are not doing node upgrades any more and having just
> moved house I want to change from 8 IP addresses to about 25.
>
> I have been looking at the Sonicwall SOHO 3 50 user or setting up a spare
> PC with IPCop.
>
> I have no experience with Linux but am happy to have a go if it was easy
> enough to set up (i.e. less than a day for a newbie). The option of the
> Sonicwall is nice to save time, diskless and quiet which is nice but
> 600GBP is a fair amount to spend if I can set up IPCop in a day.
>
> IpCop would cost me nothing as I have plenty of spare PCs floating around.
>
> Any thoughts, I am looking for simple things, NO VPN, just a DHCP server,
> good protection, easy set up of Netmeeting, CUSeeMe, usual Web usage ftp,
> SMTP, POP, and a simple overall set up.
>
> TIA
>
> Andy

If this is a home LAN, get the cheapest one, in my opinion. If it's work,
get the most expensive one. This is just my opinion. The only way to
truly know which one you want is to compare features, compare online tests
and comparisons, or just try them both yourself. However, price usually
follows features / quality. 

-- 
"I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous."

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