Untangle NG Firewall Reviews

I use it at all of our client locations as a gateway security appliance. It's great and very secure. It has intrusion prevention, threat detection, anti-spam, anti-malware, and bandwidth monitoring. It's pretty thorough.

The all-in-one gateway security functions and the ability to install it on generic equipment stand out. The centralized management console is great. I can template my installations and configurations. 

My ability to monetize it as a gateway security appliance to offer enhanced service offerings allows me to increase our price point. I provide it as a managed device to many of our clients. I take on the initial costs and charge them a monthly fee. They have threat detection.

We are an authorized partner of Untangle, and we primarily work with small businesses that have limited needs. We have deployed Untangle NG Firewall z4 Plus to the majority of our clients. With simple hardware and a monthly service fee, it's very affordable for our clients. 

The software versioning is 16.5. We have deployed them primarily on-premises. We have a couple virtualized and on ESXi servers, and that's pretty much it. They're fully managed from our cloud database directly on untangle.com/cmd.

Its ease of use, variety of available features, and low pricing have enabled us to improve the security for a lot of our very small business clients at a price that they are happy to pay for. The big thing for us is that we're providing a good quality security service to them without spending thousands of dollars per year on hardware and licensing, which we would spend with something like SonicWall, Palo Alto, etc.

We are a reseller of their product. We use their appliances and their firewall software. Normally, we've got most of our clients from referrals that had been hacked before, and we told them to migrate to stop that from happening again. That's the main reason for the firewall and for the software that goes along with it.

We are using its most recent version. We always keep it up to date.

The web blocking for my clients and the application control are valuable.

Their tech support has been wonderful when we needed it. That's one reason we stuck with them for so long.

We use Untangle for most of our clients, which include law offices and some unions. Our clients are usually small offices with about 12 users. We do hardware-as-a-service and charge $32 a unit, including replacements.

NG Firewalls allow us to permit or deny applications we don't want to run. We also use content filtering, SSL inspection, and all the other things we run on the firewall to keep our clients protected and ensure they're not going where they shouldn't. It's a great firewall that works as intended. 

It's a good out-of-the-box solution. It doesn't require much configuration. So, it's good for the end user. It's very user-friendly.

There is room for improvement in the logs. Like with Cisco, I can do almost everything and know almost anything about what's running. 

 Untangle works very much out of the box. It's very user-friendly, but it's not engineer-friendly.  So, it's good for a home user.

For something fairly easy, but at the same time, with good technology to have at home, because at home, I'm not a millionaire or anything like that. So it's not like I'm worried to get hacked. I didn't want something like a Cisco firewall; it would be a bit overkill to have at home. So that's why I went for Untangle. 

But it lacks a few features. It's just a tick-box kind of thing. So they have apps and turn on and off the apps. The VPN's configuration is all very ticked. They have a few custom configurations, but it's not that much. 

It's very good for a home user, but for engineers, people who want a bit more, it doesn't have that facility. So, it lacks a lot of granularity, like in-depth configuration. But that's okay. That's why I chose it, so that's why I like it because of that as well.

I pay for the home license because I like to have all the features. If I could have some more granulated configuration on the threat, for instance, and that's in intrusion. And that sort of if I could have a bit more in-depth configuration on it, that would be good. 

The solution's most valuable feature is the content filtering.

I would recommend getting 2FA with an SSL VPN type of setup without having to go through a lot of hoops. The solution's licensing count could be improved. With SonicWall, I can have as many devices connected as I want. Untangle charges too much money for the users to actually use it.

The product’s most valuable features are endpoint protection management, load balancing, and connectivity with Active Directory. We do not create user accounts separately for VPN purposes; it is synced automatically.

Whenever there are a large number of endpoint VPN clients, connectivity becomes slow. This particular area needs improvement.

We use the solution for VPN.

The free version offers us some protection. The paid version does what a firewall is supposed to do. It protects us from the outside. It gives us VPN functionality and WAN Failover. My clients are happy with the PCs they got. The product is easy to implement. It works well.