We performed a comparison between Hillstone T-Series and SonicWall TZ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"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."
"It's a very cost-effective solution."
"The network security is great."
"The feature with SonicWall that I have found most valuable is that all the models have the same interface. We don't need to learn different interfaces in the smaller or bigger models."
"It's a stable solution."
"I have found this solution to be easier to use when compared to other products, such as those offered by Cisco."
"The scalability of SonicWall TZ is good and easy to add users."
"The features that we have found most valuable in SonicWall TZ are the intrusion and brute force attack prevention."
"I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"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."
"Its reporting can be improved. Currently, we cannot directly get the user names. It only shows the IP, which makes it a bit confusing because we need to use the IP to find the user. If we could directly get the name of the user, it would be better."
"FortiGate has a client DNS in the firewall, but SonicWall doesn't have that. To create or configure a site-to-site VPN tunnel, we have to give a DNS name. Currently, we have to get the DNS name from a third party and then include it in SonicWall, whereas FortiGate has its own client DNS, so it provides a DNS name, and it does not require a third party. There should be a graphical option to view the network utilization and bandwidth usage."
"I would like them to make the interface a little bit easier to use so you can find out where in the heck you're going instead of having to go to 15 different places to get something installed."
"The log analyzer in SonicWall TZ is something that they need to improve upon."
"Although the pricing is good, it could always be lower. If we get to pay less, we're happier."
"They should consider working a bit more on their ransomware application."
"The solution should provide some additional ports."
"I would like the solution to build in more redundancy. I"
Hillstone T-Series is ranked 36th in Firewalls with 3 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.4, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. 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 SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Sangfor NGAF, Hillstone E-Series and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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