My simple and reliable + compact home network
This is the simple home network of 23 devices all totally protected by my Firewalla Gold firewall. This is a simple setup that requires very little of my time monitoring (but I do enjoy seeing all the sites it prevents getting into my network - usually about 80% rejection rate). All is fed by the Spectrum ISP 1 gb cable now feeding a phone modem and Nighthawk 2.5 gps modem. I feed an Orbi mesh WIFI with 2 remotes from the 2.5 gb port and a Netgear 8-port router + the main tower CPU from the 1 gbs ports. All is protected by a UPS + a fan to keep everything comfortable. The best part of having Firewalla protection is not just the best hardware available but the awesome support that I have used several times. I found out that the Spectrum Hitron Tech EN2251 and my Firewalla Gold did not like each other and started creating many outages a day which the Firewalla support team let me know in less than 12 hours of my notification of them! This support is worth as much or more than the hardware cost and should be more widely publicized in their sales literature as any time your network is down your site is dead! This was quickly remedied by adding my own cable modem with Amazon over-night delivery of a Netgear Nighthawk CM3000. I cannot say enough about how much the addition of my own firewall has simplified my life from worries about an external thief or virus getting into my network. Thank you Firewalla for producing such beneficial hardware for all of us.
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