How certain are you that the Instagate is the problem?

  Replacing it with a SOHO 4-port "firewall" router is like replacing a minivan with 
a motorcycle.  If you only need to get one person to the office, it will work; if you're 
trying to take a team of teenagers to soccer practice, it won't.

  SOHO is for one or two people, often family members.  For an office with a 
dozen employees, I'd be looking at a "real" firewall appliance -- not necessarily 
Instagate, but more than a tiny router with a bit of security thrown in.

David Gillett
(CISSP, CCNP)


On 23 Aug 2008 at 16:06, gary tennesen wrote:

> Hey gang!
> 
> I just got a new client who is running an Instagate firewall server.
> 
> He has static DSL service and the Instagate is slowing things down for 
> internet connectivity.  The software renewal is PRICEY, too.  Content 
> filtering isn't really a problem at this office so the software is not 
> necessary.
> 
> Can't I replace that thing with a simple 4-port router/firewall where I run 
> the DSL into WAN port and a cat-5 to the uplink or port 1 of the 20-port 
> hub; thus, eliminating the need for the Instagate?  Seems to me I had a 
> configuration years ago with a Cayman modem running to a Linksys router to 
> the 12-port hub and never had any problems.  The Internet was faster there, 
> too.
> 
> please advise.
> 
> running a windows 2003 server (PDC) and 12 workstations that spend 80 
> percent of the time using a DOS-like database and 20 percent ordering 
> inventory from the Internet.  Connections are cat-5 wire (gigabit) to a 
> 24-port Netgear hub (and of course the DSL uplinks to the Instagate to the 
> netgear).
> 
> 
> gary r. tennesen
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