We performed a comparison between Hillstone T-Series and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"It has been stable so far."
"We installed Hillstone T-Series after a ransomware attack. The dashboard and user interface are very good."
"The only firewall able to monitor traffic from a CCTV network. Can detect unauthorized devices plugged into the network, which standard firewalls can't do."
"Support is usually good when it comes to helping with issues."
"This product is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"Valuable features include a web filter, DHCP, and monitoring capabilities."
"The antivirus and items of that nature were quite helpful to have."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the GUI pre-filtering and the ATP (advanced threat protection)."
"SonicWall has USCS and anti-virus at the gateway level. Everything is filtered, and if it detects an intruder, it drops the line."
"They offer good antivirus solutions."
"Compared to Cisco, SonicWall NSa is much easier to configure."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"The solution is very expensive."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"Another loophole with Hillstone T-Series is that when we connect through WiFi and turn our hot spot on, all who connect through the hotspot get all the functions, and the security does not work."
"SonicWall NSa doesn't have a proxy. It also needs a quota management feature in specific scenarios where you must limit user bandwidth for a particular day."
"The pricing for this product in India is high and the fees should be reduced."
"I would like U.S.-based technical support."
"The problem primarily with SonicWall is it's a Unix box. And it's all software, all the activities, blocking, censoring, everything has to happen in the software. If you start hitting the box with a lot of sessions it slows down and that's not what I expect from a firewall."
"I would like to see better integration."
"An area for improvement would be SonicWall NSa's integration with antiviruses."
"The reporting feature could be better because most of the companies want to have the analytics included, which is something that you have to buy separately."
"The ongoing service fees are high."
Hillstone T-Series is ranked 36th in Firewalls with 3 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 76 reviews. Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.4, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Hillstone T-Series writes "Is stable and has a user-friendly dashboard and a good interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Sangfor NGAF, Hillstone E-Series and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense.
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