FortiGate-40F Firewall Appliance plus 1 Year FortiCare Premium and FortiGuard Unified Threat Protection (UTP) (FG-40F-BDL-950-12)

does all the bsic firewall/networking stuff I need at a reasonable price. I tried so many other expensive routers but they all fell short of vlan requirements. this firewall does vlan layer 3 well. it takes a while to get used to the interface and how it manages objects, so be sure you have time to spare for learning before you deploy to prod.logging all has to go to syslog so be sure you can install splunk and/or cacti to get the long term data you need. the appliance has some logging and widget/graphs but does not provide a long enough time range.

Best item, best product. Thanks A+

Good so far. Will update review if that changes

This says it all.Factory Sealed, Valid Support Entitlement, Seller BlueAlly listed as an authorized seller. with 1 year as described. Half the price of othersBeen using some older ebay fortigates for a long time they work great, but I needed VPN access and would like better filtering for my children. Setup for me was easy but this is like my 3rd HA pair of these so I knew what to expect. I enjoyed the UI improvements in 7.4 having come from 6.0.I am able to control dns better and retired my piholes. If it becomes where I am still getting ads then because these support DoH I can always forward to NextDNS. However so far so good using forti dns servers and dns filtering.If the Application control is even just as good as it was in 6.0 I am sure I will be happy with it, as when I was using the ebay models I was able to filter for my children but the application list was years old and took a lot of manual work. However it should be noted pretty good control can be achieved with manual work so even if with a new license and fresh db there is a need I know manual works.

I was looking at a Palo Alto 400 series, but the cost is much higher, and they only sell to businesses. The LAB firewall does not have all the features.Fortinet is starting to get more of the market share in security, so I wanted to work with them.Cisco ASA is no longer the market leader in firewalls.

Good performance out of the box. Register with Fortinet / update FortiGuard, create firewall policies, and put it on the edge to ward off would-be cybercriminals!! ;-)

Second try at a Fortigate and another trainwreck. Web/DNS filtering absolutely doesn't work - blocked categories are either allowed right through or give an incorrect security error, with only a few actually working correctly. Specifically blocked sites, wildcard blocked sites, i.e. youtube.com, ebay.com, etc. all get right through. Presumably one of the categories blocked Windows updates, so *microsoft.com is whitelisted and it still gets blocked. Under web filtering categories, "Hacking", "Illegal Activies", and "Violence" will not stay blocked even when saved - they keep reverting to "Allow". PEOPLE - IF THE WEB AND DNS FILTERING COMPLETELY DON'T WORK, WHY WOULD THE INTRUSION PROTECTION / ANTIVIRUS / EXTERNAL SECURITY BE ANY DIFFERENT???

This turns out to be hardware only purchase with 0 protection on it's own, for individual this would require an additional pricey contract to get protected.