| reply to HOTROD69A
Re: NETGEAR ProSecure UTM25 A month's trial is certainly a good idea, but, unfortunately, that isn't nearly long enough to determine how they will handle firmware issues over the long haul.
If it turns out that these new ProSecure products are really repackaged versions of something that has been on the market for awhile and has thus had many bugs worked out of it, I would be a lot more confident about purchasing one. Unfortunately, I haven't heard anything as to whether these are "clean sheet" designs or not, and I don't expect Netgear to tell you (but it wouldn't hurt to ask). For example, for awhile (and perhaps still), 3Com had networking security products that were really repackaged SonicWalls. Thus, these units had an established pedigree. No clue regarding these new Netgear items. |
