We performed a comparison between Hillstone T-Series 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 threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"Good load balancing feature."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"The solution is scalable."
"Overall security features and performance routing is 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."
"We installed Hillstone T-Series after a ransomware attack. The dashboard and user interface are very good."
"It has been stable so far."
"The initial setup is not complex."
"Technical support is perfect, excellent."
"It is effective. We have not had any problems."
"It's a good solution for end-users. It's pretty easy to work with."
"The initial setup was straightforward, therefore I wanted to continue using the product."
"The product’s documentation is good."
"It has a good web cache. I used to use a DHCP server and DNS server. For my company, I use pfSense as a load balancing application."
"The most valuable features are the VPN and the capture photo."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"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."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"I tried pfSense, and it has a big issue with file system consistency, and this is what drove me to OPNsense. The file system stability is quite a big issue for us. We have a lot of outages related to power issues, and OPNsense is much more stable on this side."
"If you want to take advantage of all of the solution's options, you need to have a bit of a technical background. It's not for a layperson."
"My only observation is about the quality of the IPSec logs, which are difficult to interpret and are poor in filters."
"The Netgate forums and community don’t provide extensive discussions and topics related to every pfSense service."
"The integration could be improved."
"For the third-party packages, I'd rather have it built-in, like a core feature of pfSense, part of the core model."
"More documentation would be great, especially on new features because sometimes, when new features come out, you don't get to understand them right off the bat. You have to really spend a lot of time understanding them. So, more documentation would be awesome."
"The user interface can be improved to make it easier to add more features. And pfSense could be better integrated with other solutions, like antivirus."
Hillstone T-Series is ranked 36th in Firewalls with 3 reviews while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.4, while Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6. 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 Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Sangfor NGAF, Hillstone E-Series and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM, KerioControl and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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