thecompu-doctor
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Hi everyone, I support residential and small business clients (typically 20 people or less). In most cases they don't have real servers nor need many of the high end, high expense features that are common with Watch Guard or Sonicwall.
I've been recommending and deploying the Draytek Vigor 2920n for several years and have had great success with them, until recently. I love them for their features, price point and decent quality. I recently had one that worked great for about 6 months, and then started to have issues. Since they aren't really setup in the US and work through resellers that sometimes work through other resellers, the warrant return and support was a nightmare. Many many chats and remote access and 2 months later I got the router "repaired." Its still not quite right, but working.
So, this leaves me not wanting to go through that again and looking for a new router for my business clients to call home. It should have basic VLAN capabilities, wifi, VPN + all the normal fixens. Looking for the $2-400 price range. I do like the option to add on content and viral filtering if the client wants it.
I'm looking at the Netgear UTM9S, but it is a bit highly priced at $470 for my clients. I've used Zyxel in the past, but just not sure if their quality is up to me feeling confident in deploying it in high demand business environments.
PS. Long story, but i will never use watch guard again!
I've been recommending and deploying the Draytek Vigor 2920n for several years and have had great success with them, until recently. I love them for their features, price point and decent quality. I recently had one that worked great for about 6 months, and then started to have issues. Since they aren't really setup in the US and work through resellers that sometimes work through other resellers, the warrant return and support was a nightmare. Many many chats and remote access and 2 months later I got the router "repaired." Its still not quite right, but working.
So, this leaves me not wanting to go through that again and looking for a new router for my business clients to call home. It should have basic VLAN capabilities, wifi, VPN + all the normal fixens. Looking for the $2-400 price range. I do like the option to add on content and viral filtering if the client wants it.
I'm looking at the Netgear UTM9S, but it is a bit highly priced at $470 for my clients. I've used Zyxel in the past, but just not sure if their quality is up to me feeling confident in deploying it in high demand business environments.
PS. Long story, but i will never use watch guard again!
