We performed a comparison between SonicWall Connect Tunnel and SonicWall Netextender based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OpenVPN, Fortinet, Cisco and others in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN."It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The solution has good performance."
"The best features are security and ease of use."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the advanced security features it offers."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"One of the most valuable features of SonicWall Netextender is the integration of VPN accounts with Microsoft Identity Management, which enables us to enforce secure access through Microsoft Intune and conditional access policies. This helps ensure that only authorized individuals are able to access the VPN, rather than anyone with knowledge of a password."
"The solution provides high availability."
"Employees can have access to the network from home."
"My company opted for this solution because it can individually perform. Basically, we don't require load balancers and all those additional feature sets or additional devices that might be required. The solution can handle the certificate, DNS queries, and all that stuff individually."
"The product has two-factor authentication."
"It allows us to work remotely."
"NetExtender works very well. I never had an issue with it, and it has been working well for me. In terms of management, you have good control over the destination. You can use NetExtender to set the policy and the static route for a client. You can modify it based on what your client needs or can access. You have good control over routing."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"The product's configuration, administration, and user interface are areas of concern."
"An improvement would be to update the look and feel of the interface, which is very traditional and doesn't fit the current market trend."
"SonicWall can be difficult for some people, but I don't find it difficult. Some companies provide a VPN client for free, but you have to pay for NetExtender."
"The UI could be a little better."
"The initial setup of SonicWall Netextender is straightforward. The only issue we encountered was with relocating the VPN appliance. If we needed to move it from an on-premise to an on-cloud architecture, we had to start over and redeploy it from scratch. Unfortunately, it is not portable and any changes to its physical location often result in the need for a fresh deployment to ensure everything functions properly."
"There must be a multi-factor authentication enabled or integrated by default with it in order to be integrated with NetExtender."
"Right now, you have to load each license on to an appliance. You can't pool across multiple appliances. So, you end up having to do a lot of administrative work to recover if an internet provider goes down, and you cannot leverage it as easily into a DR solution."
"The Netextender application itself doesn't really look pretty, however, we can still use it. We don't care what it looks like. That said, if they did a cosmetic update, that would be fine."
"The solution takes up a lot of bandwidth."
"The product does not work well."
SonicWall Connect Tunnel is ranked 18th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 2 reviews while SonicWall Netextender is ranked 14th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 11 reviews. SonicWall Connect Tunnel is rated 8.6, while SonicWall Netextender is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of SonicWall Connect Tunnel writes "Offers advanced security features and is easy to install". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall Netextender writes "An affordable and stable solution that is easy to use and provides two-factor authentication". SonicWall Connect Tunnel is most compared with Oracle VPN Connect, AWS Direct Connect, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, SonicWall SMA and Zyxel VPN Client, whereas SonicWall Netextender is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, SonicWall Mobile Connect, Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway.
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