Solutions for Sonicwall performance issues?

We just got a 10 mbps line put in, and our Pro 1260 only lets traffic
through that fast if we turn off all services. We are trying to decide
if it would be better to get a faster firewall, or to turn off all the
services and get a CSM 2200. However, we are unable to find any
information on the CSM line regarding throughput. Has anyone tried
this? Would this be a better solution than getting a more powerful
firewall? Or is there a better way besides these options?

Thanks,
Trevor

Re: Solutions for Sonicwall performance issues?

Am Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:42:46 -0800 schrieb Trevor:

> We just got a 10 mbps line put in, and our Pro 1260 only lets traffic
> through that fast if we turn off all services. We are trying to decide
> if it would be better to get a faster firewall, or to turn off all the
> services and get a CSM 2200. However, we are unable to find any
> information on the CSM line regarding throughput. Has anyone tried
> this? Would this be a better solution than getting a more powerful
> firewall? Or is there a better way besides these options?
>
> Thanks,
> Trevor

Keep you hands away from the sonicwall crap, I made the same bad
experience with traffice and a lot more. Now e use netscreen, the OS is
lot's better, faster and not so buggy. ( e.g. try ssh keys bigger than 2048
and sonicwall goes away). Even the support costs only money, they wasn't be
able to fix anything.

cheers

Re: Solutions for Sonicwall performance issues?

On Jan 11, 9:42=A0pm, Trevor wrote:
> We just got a 10 mbps line put in, and our Pro 1260 only lets traffic
> through that fast if we turn off all services. We are trying to decide
> if it would be better to get a faster firewall, or to turn off all the
> services and get a CSM 2200. However, we are unable to find any
> information on the CSM line regarding throughput. Has anyone tried
> this? Would this be a better solution than getting a more powerful
> firewall? Or is there a better way besides these options?
>
> Thanks,
> Trevor

The CSM range are just for content filtering av spyware etc they do
not do any firewall blocking ( we used to have a 2200 but found it
could not cope with over 200 users) Your best bet would be to look at
differant solutions ( we use a 4050 with our 10mb line) but i would
reccomend looking elsewhere other than sonicwall as the support is
abysmal ( i have had calls open 87% of the time over the last 2 yrs).
Try netgear, smoothwall (for a cheaper solution using your own
hardware), secure.or one of the other companies.

Good luck

Re: Solutions for Sonicwall performance issues?

On Jan 14, 1:47 am, Phil wrote:
> On Jan 11, 9:42 pm, Trevor wrote:
>
> > We just got a 10 mbps line put in, and our Pro 1260 only lets traffic
> > through that fast if we turn off all services. We are trying to decide
> > if it would be better to get a faster firewall, or to turn off all the
> > services and get a CSM 2200. However, we are unable to find any
> > information on the CSM line regarding throughput. Has anyone tried
> > this? Would this be a better solution than getting a more powerful
> > firewall? Or is there a better way besides these options?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Trevor
>
> The CSM range are just for content filtering av spyware etc they do
> not do any firewall blocking ( we used to have a 2200 but found it
> could not cope with over 200 users) Your best bet would be to look at
> differant solutions ( we use a 4050 with our 10mb line) but i would
> reccomend looking elsewhere other than sonicwall as the support is
> abysmal ( i have had calls open 87% of the time over the last 2 yrs).
> Try netgear, smoothwall (for a cheaper solution using your own
> hardware), secure.or one of the other companies.
>
> Good luck

The idea was to put a CSM behind the firewall, and turn off all the
stuff on the firewall that the CSM does. However, we just realized
that we'd actually need to get two CSMs - one for the LAN and one for
the DMZ.

We've had good experience with Sonicwall. The support isn't that
great, but the products themselves are very good. I've looked into
other products, but they seem to either lack the features or are much
more difficult to administer.

It's looking like the Pro 3060 might be what we need.

Thanks,
Trevor