We performed a comparison between Hillstone CloudEdge and Netgate pfSense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"The most valuable features of pfSense are security, user-friendliness, and helpful online management."
"It is much simpler than other solutions such as Fortinet."
"The ability to perform packet captures on the command line and via the GUI is useful for diagnosing problems."
"The initial setup was straightforward, therefore I wanted to continue using the product."
"pfSense allows us to spread the hours of connection and do the filtering on the pfSense site."
"One of the advantages of pfSense is that it is very easy to work with. It is a very good open-source solution, and it works really well. pfSense provides a complete package. For some features, it could be the first solution in the world. It is a very good alternative in the market for a firewall solution. You don't need to go to Cisco or other brands with expensive firewalls. pfSense also allows us to offer some support services."
"The ability to create a VPN allows me to monitor branch offices from a central location."
"The tools' most valuable feature is load balancing."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
"The VPN feature of the solution could improve by adding better functionality and providing easier configure ability."
"Their support could be better in terms of the response time."
"Ease of use is a problem for a user who is unfamiliar with this product because, in the interface, everything has to be set manually."
"The hotspot and the portal feature in this solution are not stable for WiFi access. We use it at least once or twice every day and it crashes. Some modules can be better by improving detection and having new updates. Additionally, we have some issues with clustering and load balancing that could improve."
"It requires more attention to provide a better alternative for open source to small government or educational institutions with reduced budgets in terms of technology."
"We have not had any problems with it, and we also do not have a need for any new features. If anything, its reporting can be better. Sophos has better reporting than pfSense. Sophos has more detailed information. pfSense is not as detailed. It is summarized."
"pfSense has some limitations in detecting site sessions. We want to control internet usage based on sites and their content, and pfSense doesn't perform this function."
"The Netgate forums and community don’t provide extensive discussions and topics related to every pfSense service."
Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0, while Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with , whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, KerioControl, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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