Product Recommendation
- There is no subscription fee for all products
- A mobile phone is required to use all products
Firewalla Red
- Internet speed: less than 100 Mb
- Want a plug-and-play firewall at a budget
- You have a small network
Firewalla Blue
- Internet speed: greater than 100 Mb and less than 500 Mb
- Advanced power features not supported in Red (see feature comparison table)
- Region (country) level blocking
- Site to Site VPN
- Web access
Firewalla Blue Plus
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The Firewalla Blue Plus is the Firewalla Blue with a slightly faster processor and 2GB of system memory. The following features are unique to the Firewalla Blue Plus
- The ability to block more regions (increased from 3 to 10)
- Simple Smart Queue to manage congestion and buffer bloat
- Docker container support
Firewalla Gold
- Internet speed: 500 Mb to 1 Gb
- Want network segmentation and VLAN
- Want to control your network bandwidth usage and manage network traffic using Advanced Smart Queue
- Want a state-of-the-art router+firewall combo
- When in router mode, there are no compatibility problems
- Physically inline and can replace your main router
- Multi-WAN support for network availability
- Higher performance than the Blue with no feature limitations
- More CPU resources for customization scripts + docker containers.
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Hardware and Performance Comparison
Red
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Blue
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Blue+
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Gold
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| Packet Processing Speed | 100 Mb | 500 Mb | 500 Mb | >3 Gb |
| Memory | 512 MB | 1024 MB | 2048 MB | 4096 MB |
| Number of Ports | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Active Protect Entries | 1000 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 40,000 |
| CPU | 32bit Quad Core ARM 1ghz | 64bit Quad Core ARM 1ghz | 64bit Quad Core ARM 1.2ghz | 64bit Quad-Core Intel 2.2ghz (AES NI) |
| VPN Encryption Speed | 28 Mb | 70 Mb | 70 Mb | 120 Mb |
| Storage | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 32 GB |
| Console Port | None | None | None | 1 |
| Power (Watt) | ~5W | ~5W | ~7W | ~10W to 12W |
| Size | 4.5 x 4.5 x 3 cm | 4.5 x 4.5 x 3 cm | 5.4 x 5.4 x 3.4 cm | 13 x 11 x 3.4 cm |
| Weight | 1.52 oz / 43 g | 1.59 oz / 45 g | 2.15 oz / 61 g | 19.9 oz / 565 g |
| Operating Temperature | 32°F to 95°F (with airflow) | 32°F to 95°F (with airflow) | 32°F to 95°F (with airflow) | 32°F to 122°F (with airflow) |
Software Features Comparison
Red
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Blue
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Blue+
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Gold
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| Core Features | ||||
| Active Protect (up-to-date threat detection and prevention for the whole network) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Deep Insights | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Ad Block | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Family Protect, Safe Search, Family Time/Social Hour | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Device Management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Device Groups | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Manage Rules (Allow, Block, Domains, Categories) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Alarms | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Content Filtering (adult, gaming, video, ...) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Bandwidth and Monthly Data Plan Monitoring | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| VPN Server | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| VPN Client | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| DNS over HTTPS | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| IPv6 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| DDNS | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Simple & DHCP Mode | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced Features | ||||
| Site to Site VPN | Client only | 1x connection | 1x connection | 10x connections |
| Geo-IP Filtering / Regional Blocking | 3 countries | 10 countries | no limit | |
| Web Portal Access |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Custom or 3rd party software installation | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Inline Firewall | ✔ | |||
| Simple Smart Queue | ✔ | |||
| Advanced Smart Queue + Rate Limit |
✔ | |||
| New Device Quarantine |
✔ | |||
| Docker Containers | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Router Features | ||||
| Router | ✔ | |||
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WAN (PPPoE, Static IP, DHCP, Triple-Play, VLAN) |
✔ | |||
| Network segmentation (preset network types, inter-network traffic rules) |
✔ | |||
| VLAN | ✔ | |||
| Inbound and outbound per segment Firewall | ✔ | |||
| Multi-WAN Load Balancing + Failover |
✔ | |||
Disclaimer: some of the features above may be in beta, and eventually be in production mode.
Comments
2 comments
Are there any subscription fees? Or do I just buy the hardware?
No, there is no subscription fee…
You just buy the hardware and download the free mobile App.
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