Wireless Routers » ZyXEL ZyWALL USG50 Internet Security Firewall with Dual-WAN, 4 Gigabit LAN/DMZ Ports, 5 IPSec VPN, SSL VPN, and 3G WAN Support
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(32 customer reviews) 26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Great SOHO VPN Firewall,
November 22, 2010 WPB Consulting (Cary, NC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: ZyXEL ZyWALL USG20 Internet Security Firewall with 4 Gigabit LAN/DMZ Ports, 2 IPSec VPN, SSL VPN, and 3G WAN Support (Personal Computers)
While ZyXEL may not be that well known in the consumer network gear market, they make some good enterprise level gear. The USG line from ZyXEL is middle ground between simple consumer products and highly configurable enterprise products.
I have used the ZyXEL ZyWALL 2 PLUS Internet Security Firewall, 4 Port 10/100 Fast Ethernet Switch, w/ 5 IPSec VPN Tunnelsand the (discontinued) 1P for several years without issue; primarily for maintaining an IPSEC VPN tunnel. While the 2 Plus and 1P were more consumer grade, the USG20 is a step beyond. It has a plethora of configuration options available, and wringing out optimal performance from the device is not for the faint of heart. Having a background in network configuration will make the job easier, otherwise, plan to spend some time with the instruction manual.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Great features for the money!,
August 30, 2011 Classless - See all my reviews
This review is from: ZyXEL ZyWALL USG20 Internet Security Firewall with 4 Gigabit LAN/DMZ Ports, 2 IPSec VPN, SSL VPN, and 3G WAN Support (Personal Computers)
I bought this router from a competitor but wanted to leave a review here. The amount of features that you get out of this router is unbelievable for the price you pay. I'll point out my pros and cons about the unit but I will start by saying that this is not a dlink/linksys/netgear plug and play router, you need to have a good understanding of networking in order to use the unit to even half of its full potential.
Pros:
IPSec VPN
SSL VPN (ridiculously easy to configure, and there is a network extension option so that you can actually be put on the network and have full access to your resources)
Extensive firewall options (seriously there's a ton of options)
Cisco-like CLI
Ability to integrate with Active Directory (I use this with the ssl vpn, can be kind of tricky to configure though)
Bandwidth Management (very flexible options for this, you can really lock down how much bandwidth devices/programs can have...Read more
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Great product with only one flaw,
October 26, 2010 Kelly - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ZyXEL ZyWALL USG100 Unified Security Gateway Firewall w/50 VPN Tunnels, SSL VPN, 7 Gigabit Ports, and High Availability (Personal Computers)
This is one of the best priced and most feature rich routers I've ever used. I've used sonic walls about 5 years in the past and we had a linksys dual wan router before this. Once we needed more than one external ip the linksys just couldn't cut it. The firewall would either be fully off or fully on with secondary ip's, so we had to find another solution. Having used sonic walls in the past I looked at them first but a price/feature comparison lead me straight to the ZyWall USG100.
Setup for the device seems complicated at first, with assigning ip's to machines, ports to groups, and other things that I've not encountered with a firewall before. But these extra steps in the beginning save so much time later on. Instead of having routes and many firewall rules assigned to an ip, you would assign it to a virtual object stored in the zywall which has all of it's information. So when a change to the machines ip is required you don't have to go in and change every single rule and...Read more
