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1 RECOMMENDED by 3 people for HOME
Cisco PIX Firewall 501 (PIX-501-BUN-K9)
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$143.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars quite literally this is the best firewall a home user can buy, without qualification.
  2. from www.newegg.com
    4.0 Stars i would buy them again for doing vpn endpoints for sure, but would not recommend for home use.
  3. from www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars bad for enterprise / corporate use or novice home users!
  4. from www.shopping.com
    5.0 Stars pros: solid performance home to medium sized business, full set of security measures, vpn capabilities cons: need to understand how networks and internet works.
  5. from www.shopping.com
    5.0 Stars cons: more expense then other home firewalls command line config is complex - use http
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Positives: Remote Management Protocol: SNMP, Remote Management Protoco: SNMP, Encryption Standards: 3DES,AES,IKE,DES, NAT Traversal,PAT
2 RECOMMENDED by 10 people for HOME
D-Link SECURESPOT  DSD-150 (790069291944) Firewall
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$86.00 Est. at Amazon
  1. from www.mwave.com
    5.0 Stars (edited february 09th by homeuser) i am not an it person and therefore i need something that takes the burden of protecting my home family network of three computers off of me!
  2. from www.tigerdirect.com
    5.0 Stars after years of spending hundreds of dollars and countless hours to protect my home office computers from the web, it happens.
  3. from www.pricegrabber.com
    4.0 Stars (edited august 31st by dsingforgod_1092165272) this is, of course, a pricy little item, but after searching and doing some homework i found one for a great price on pricegrabber.com.
  4. from dsingforgod_1092165272, www.pricegrabber.com
    4.0 Stars summary: (edited august 31st by dsingforgod_1092165272) this is, of course, a pricy little item, but after searching and doing some homework i found one for a great price on pricegrabber.com.
  5. from www.nextag.com
    5.0 Stars having 6 pc's in my home, i was desperately looking to find a network anti-virus/security program that did not have to be installed and set-up on each and every machine.
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Positives: Remote Management Protocol: HTTP, Remote Management Protoco: HTTP, DHCP Support: Server, Firewall Features: Content Filtering,Network Antivirus,Spyware Filtering
3 RECOMMENDED by 3 people for HOME
NetGear ProSafe FVS338 (FVS338NA) Firewall
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$199.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars however, the problems have been addressed in v2.0 and this is now a viable product for the home/small business user.
  2. from www.newegg.com
    4.0 Stars other thoughts: it is more suited to home office/professional use than for the average consumer, though setup is not a problem if you leave everything at default.
  3. from www.newegg.com
    4.0 Stars would not recommend for your everyday run of the mill home user (99.999% of the population out there).
  4. from www.newegg.com
    4.0 Stars pros: plenty of connections for my home use.
  5. from www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars pros: this may be overkill for a home network, but i got this router to allow multiple outgoing vpn tunnels, and it works!
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Positives: Remote Management Protocol: SNMP 2c,HTTP,SSL,Telnet, Remote Management Protoco: SNMP 2c,HTTP,SSL,Telnet, Encryption Standards: MD5,3DES,IKE,SHA-1,AES,DES, NAT Support: One-to-one,NAT Traversal,PAT
4 RECOMMENDED by 2 people for HOME
SonicWALL TZ 170 10 Node (01-ssc-5555) Firewall
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$282.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.nextag.com
    4.0 Stars it can be used both in a home and office environment.
  2. from www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars upgrading the software is very easy.this is not a basic firewallcons: noneother thoughts: highly recommend this firewall for any business or home
  3. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars i have used sonicwall's various firewall products ever since their first soho firewall in both home and business settings.
  4. from www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars pros: i have worked with hundreds of these models and have the wireless model in my home.
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Positives: Remote Management Protocol: HTTP,SNMP, Remote Management Protoco: HTTP,SNMP, Encryption Standards: IKE,3DES,AES, NAT Support: PAT,One-to-one,One-to-many,Policy based,Many-to-many,Overlapping IPs,NAT Traversal,Transparent Mode
5 RECOMMENDED by 2 people for HOME
NetGear FVS114 (FVS114NA) Firewall
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$87.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars this firewall was configured for a home office network (both mac and windows based systems) along with a router and dsl modem.
  2. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars so, i would recommend this firewall for your network or home computer.
  3. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars installed at a client to build tunnel from his home to his office ( to connect to linksys r0v81 vpn router.) was very easy to configure and very stable in operation.
  4. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars made them a vpn between the office and home.
  5. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars unit i have purchased and i now have one at work and at home.
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Positives: Remote Management Protocol: HTTP, Encryption Standards: DES,3DES,AES,MD5,IKE,SHA-1,PKI, NAT Traversal, DHCP Support: Server,Client
 
NetGear ProSafe FWG114P (fwg114pna) Firewall
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$189.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.newegg.com
    4.0 Stars i also plan to use the ras feature to dial into my home network once i have a high speed connection.two routers were set up for a friend and myself.
  2. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars nothing's perfect, but this is a good solution in the home or very small business market.
  3. from www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars comments: my company has placed many of the netgear prosafe fwg114p devices in homes of our employees who want to work from home using their office notebook computer.
  4. from www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars comments: this router is working great in a home area, i live in a large house, and the 5dbi reaches all over throughout this old aging house.
  5. from www.amazon.com
    2.0 Stars none of the netgear products support this, and it makes no sense, since most people buy small multifunctions for their homes now.
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Positives: Remote Management Protocol: SSL, Remote Management Protoco: SSL, NAT Support: One-to-many, DHCP Support: Client,Server
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