SonicWall Netextender Reviews

Our primary use case is client-to-site VPN. We are customers of SonicWall. 

The best feature is that employees can connect to our LAN, and have access to our network from home. 

The solution takes more bandwidth these days and it would be helpful if that was reduced. 

I've been using this solution for three years. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable, we had over 300 users during the peak of Covid when everyone was working from home. 

The initial setup is straightforward.

SonicWall has a one-time license fee, it's a moderate cost.

We went with NetExtender because we use SonicWall firewall, it was a practical option. I recommend this solution and rate it eight out of 10. 

NetExtender is for client VPN. Users can use it to connect through a VPN and remotely access the internet services. 

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.

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.

I have been using this solution for around five years.

I can't say much about stability. I have multiple firewalls from the same company. If one firewall is down, I can connect to another firewall. 

I never had to call their technical support for NetExtender. In general, like every firewall company, it depends on who you're talking to. Sometimes, you get good support, and sometimes, you don't get good support, and you have to force them to do something more because they just keep on saying that it is not just this. It is also this and that. You have to force them to go in one direction. I have had the same experience with Fortinet.

NetExtender is easy to install. You go to the SonicWall website and download NetExtender. If you are not sure about the setup options, you just keep on clicking on yes. All the configuration is automatically done.

Its setup is done inside the SonicWall router. Some people don't like SonicWall because they find it too complicated, but I like it. You get more granular control on everything and have to do more things, which makes it complicated, but I prefer it being complicated. I don't like not having enough options. If there are 100 options, I will study them one by one and use them, but for some people, it can be too complicated when there are too many options.

You have to pay for its license. There are some other companies that provide a VPN client for free. When you buy NetExtender, its license is available for one, three, or five years.

I would rate SonicWall NetExtender an eight out of ten.

The solution is used as an enterprise infrastructure VPN.

We have our users connecting if they work from home, for example. We are using NetExtender for connecting our users to the office. 

The product is very cost-effective. For the price-sensitive market, this is a very good product for an SSL VPN solution.

The initial setup is pretty easy.

The product is very user-friendly.

The solution so far has proven itself to be quite stable. 

The documentation is excellent. They have a lot of detail and cover a lot of aspects of the product.

The solution is very easy to configure.

I'm not sure if the solution also supports the Mac OS. If it doesn't, that is something that could be very valuable.

There must be a multi-factor authentication enabled or integrated by default with it in order to be integrated with NetExtender.

I've used the solution over the last 12 months at least. 

The stability is good. It's a very reliable solution. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's quite good overall in terms of performance.

We have around 50 users on the solution currently. We've never tried to scale beyond that. Therefore, I can't speak to the scalability potential. It's not something we've actively explored. 

We've never had the need to reach out to technical support. For that reason, I can't really speak to how helpful or responsive they are. There isn't any feedback I could provide.

That said, there is a lot of documentation available, which would make it possible for users to seek out their own answers to problems if they needed to.

The initial setup was okay. Of course, it's important to get it right, however, once it is set up, the solution is extremely user-friendly and easy to manage. A company shouldn't have any issues with the process.

The deployment was pretty quick. It only took about two or so days.

The pricing of the product is good. It's quite reasonable for companies and easily affordable.

We pay a yearly licensing fee. Once you procure the license, it is attached to your SonicWall firewall. Therefore, you won't need to procure it or purchase it again and again.

We're SonicWall partners.

We're likely using the latest version of the solution.

I'd advise those considering the solution that, if they already have a SonicWall firewall, they can just procure the licenses and enable the work from home for their users.

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten.