| Sonicwall 01-SSC-5710 54Mbps Wireless Access point |
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Model: 01-SSC-5710
Brand: Sonic Systems
Manufacturer: Sonic Systems, Inc.
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Total Reviews: 2
Form factor: External
Hardware platform: PC
Data link protocol: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g
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| Description: |
| Wireless is changing the way businesses work. Adding wireless into an existing network or building a wireless network from the ground up increases mobility and productivity by maintaining connections to e-mail, files and online applications regardless of physical location. With these benefits, however, comes risk. SonicWALL provides a solution that enables your organization to take advantage of the freedom of wireless connectivity without compromising network security.The TZ 170 Wireless, part of SonicWALL's TZ 170 Series, is a high-performance, multi-layer network security platform that delivers enterprise-class wireless and wired security to small networks. The TZ 170 Wireless integrates secure 802.11b/g wireless, deep packet inspection firewall and IPSec VPN technologies in a cost-effective, easy-to-use solution. Advanced features such as enforced VPN encryption on the wireless LAN and wireless intrusion detection and prevention services deliver impenetrable wireless security. Utilizing the Wireless Guest Services feature, network administrators can create multiple zones of access - for wired and wireless workers as well as guest wireless users - offering an unprecedented level of control without compromising network security.In addition to its extensive wireless and wired networking feature set, the TZ 170 Wireless integrates real-time gateway anti-virus, anti-spyware and intrusion prevention capabilities for protection against viruses, spyware, worms, Trojans and other malicious threats. And, with built-in anti-spam protection and support for SonicWALL's Content Filtering Service, the TZ 170 Wireless enhances productivity and network utilization. |
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| User Reviews (2 total): |
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If you're setting up a Mac network, look elsewhere, April 29, 2006
By orangekay (San Francisco, CA United States)
There's something SonicWALL doesn't tell you in their product literature, and that's that this router segregates wireless and wired traffic into two different MAC interfaces with two different subnets. This is all well and good for a handful of security reasons, but if you expect to use zeroconf/Rendezvous/Bonjour/NetBIOS to share printers amongst both wired and wireless clients, you will not be able to, as there is no way to place the LAN and WLAN on the same subnet. Multicasting will work amongst all wired stations, and it will work amongst all wireless stations, but wireless stations will never see the service advertisement packets coming from the wired stations and vice-versa. Yes, you can poke a hole in the firewall that will allow general IP traffic to flow between them, but multicasting doesn't work that way, so it breaks.
The VPN is also incredibly problematic, and (not surprisingly) SonicWALL doesn't support Macs at all. The config pages served up by the OS don't even work in Safari, and only some of them work in Firefox. Unless you have some very specific need that only a SonicWALL can fill, save yourself a lot of trouble and load an open source firmware variant into a $50 Linksys WRT54GL. You'll get the same build quality and more features for a fraction of the cost.
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