SonicWall TZ370 Gen7 Firewall | Advanced SMB Security Appliance with Multi-Gigabit (2.5/5 G) Interfaces, SD-WAN, and Real-Time Threat Defense (02-SSC-2825)

My previous firewall was limiting my bandwidth and I wanted more ports. This was the perfect match for my needs at a reasonable price

product as described, and arrived promptly

Sonicwall is the best for expense. No issues at all.

This new OS is a joke. I am migrating all my clients off Sonicwalls. I tried to reach out to Sonicwall to get support for all the bugs in this new OS and they refused to help at all saying I need to buy a support contract to get help on overcoming all the bugs in their horrible new OS. I have never dealt with an "enterprise" product before. This is the last Sonicwall device I WILL EVER BUY. I did eventually identify the buggy feature and thankfully I was able to work around it with slightly reduced functionality. I am enjoying the Ubiquiti offerings at a fraction of the price with most of the features and so far NONE of the "undocumented/unsupported features" AKA Bugs.

2024 update - I've been using it for almost 2 yrs now, and still pretty happy with it. I just ended up turning off DPI-SSL, it's just too much of a hassle, breaks too many sites. Oh, what is that? It inspects encrypted packets, think https. Since so much traffic uses SSL these days, turning it off is a significant security hole. But still, the updates to the anti-virus sigs faster than anyone else, the rich feature set, the ability to partition your network in almost endless ways, great. But again, be prepared to do a lot of searching to figure out how to use most of the features. Groups, policies, etc., learn them or get nowhere. Pluses - fast, huge number of features, great management web UI. Minuses - expensive. Basic configuration works fine, but if you want advanced features, there are endless and very expensive licenses you have to buy. ZERO SUPPORT, that's another license you have to buy. Documentation is terrible, be prepared to do a lot of searching. All that said, it's turning out to be a very powerful firewall, but some features are a pain. Example, I've spent many hours getting DPI-SSL actually working. The major issue is the way it inspects ssl packets. It has to basically do a man-in-the-middle, which browsers (and many IoT devicces) interpret as an attack and won't connect. This is made worse by SonicOs 7 not letting you install a real certificate for its proxying, you can only use a local untrusted cert, which means that you can't fix the attack issue without installing the firewall's cert on every device that uses https. And, many IoT devices have no way of doing that. So, you end up spending many hours looking at firewall logs and adding site exceptions, which of course means that dpi doesn't happen for those sites. Lame! So, would I buy it again? Yes. If you want state-of-the-art hardware firewalling that really works at gig speeds, this is the one to get. Update - now that I've spent many hours adding dpi-ssl exceptions, enabling other security features, and actually paid for the basic gateway anti-intrusion, etc. pkg at $150/yr, I'm even more impressed. Of course, that's once you figure out how to turn it all on given the nonexistent documentation. It's hard to imagine how I could be more secure. (well, I do run software antivirus on my internal computers) This is for sure an enterprise-class firewall. And I'm just a home user. But a paranoid one. :) If you are also, go for it, but be prepared to spend about $750 with the extra license, and be prepared for much fun figuring out all the magic settings.

Happy with purchase

If you can dedicate a lot of time or can pay SonicWall to help with common setup issues, maybe. The idiosyncrasies of setting this device up with "third party" equipment is a very step leaning curve, or requires continued outlay of $$$.$$ for support. SonicWall has technical papers, a knowledge database and videos but they are almost entirely dedicated to using other SonicWall devices, not "third party". They offer ZERO initial support, that will cost you extra $$$.$$. I don't think it's a common use case to have a network with all a single vendors equipment. If you cannot work with other vendor devices with some setup, it's a limited application case. It would be okay if they had a few video tutorials on say setting up another vendor's wireless access, or another vendors managed device. You could learn from this and apply to other cases. It's like they want you to buy support or replace your other devices with theirs. Not good application cases, sorry. :-(

I have been buying and supporting SonicWALL since before they were bought by Dell and then sold back to SOnicWALL. I set up STS VPNs regularly. This one was one of several connected to a NSA3600. It does not work! No configuration will work, logs are flaky on it. Searched for answers, lots of folks having issues with this new software and the STS VPN. So, called SonicWALL, they will not support their defective product unless you pay extra. This is within 24 hrs of setting it up.I have updated the firmware and then downgraded it. Still will not connect. I have intentionally misconfigured to get a log entry. That gave only one entry with an expected issue with the crypto suite. Simply put, the device is an overpriced router. It will not do the things it is sold for. I would no longer recommend buying this to my customers nor anyone else. Speaking with them, they just don't care if it works or not. This one can go back to Amazon. Time for another product that actually works.