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March 11, 2016
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Home FortiGate Firewall Recommendations

  • March 11, 2016
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Our experience with FortiGate units is limited mostly to 60D and 100D units. We have a home user that could use a firewall and 2 or 3 wireless access points. How would a 30D or a 50E perform in this situation? The user would typically only have 4 users connected at a time. They do have a very fast 1 Gbs internet connection though. Would this small a firewall hamper the internet connection speed? Ideas / Suggestions? Thanks.

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    bartman10
    bartman10
    New Member
    March 11, 2016

    I've been working with Fortinet tech support on a FWF-50E that hard locks every time I take it home and use it on my home network. I've received 2 RMA units for a total of 3 units and can hard lock them all.. FN support has been extremely slow moving this ticket past level 1 support and I've just told them this weekend is the final weekend of free QA testing on my part. I'm sending the last unit back and let them deal with it.. 

    Just saying.. I would avoid the 50E right now.

    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    March 13, 2016

    New E series will show initial bugs for sure, just remember when introducing the D series (100D). Forcing the bleeding edge v5.4 for the new hardware won't help either.

    But that said, there's not much to say about the 30D although there's a saying anything below a 60x isn't a real firewall. It will surely depend on the extent of UTM you want to apply. The small boxes with SoC are weak on CPU intensive tasks like AV, IPS, SSL VPN.

    Have you considered deploying only a remote Forti-AP and no FGT at all? Will create a tunnel to the HQ FGT and all traffic will traverse it (so the upstream bandwidth needs to be high). This would shift the requirement from the branch to HQ equipment.

    SecurityPlus
    SecurityPlusAuthor
    Explorer III
    March 14, 2016

    I will look into this. Interesting idea. Thanks!

    SecurityPlus
    SecurityPlusAuthor
    Explorer III
    March 17, 2016
    Thanks everyone for the very helpful and thought provoking input!
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