Netgate pfSense Reviews and Pricing

System Administrator at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Nov 28, 2015

The load-balancer function support multiple servers, load balancing two gateways on the same tier. However, the firewall could be improved.

The features I've found most valuable are--

Proxy server (to filter traffic, act as intermediary between our server and our client, and analyze and load-balance traffic)
Load balancer (support multiple servers, load balances two gateways on the same tier)
Hot spot (with captive portal, forces authentication or click-through for network access)

It's provided us with a fair internet speed for all users. We're also able to control web contents of our users.

The firewall feature could be improved.

We had no issues with deployment.

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We had no issues with instability.

We were able to scale just fine.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.