Firewalla Gold - The Gold Standard for Firewalls?

The Firewalla Gold is a prosumer or small business firewall with an impressive set of features including ad blocking, traffic shaping, load balancing between two Internet connections, failover between two Internet connections, safe search, a VPN client & a VPN server, Docker, and more! Here is my review.

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[Black_Kakari]

I just bought the Firewalla Purple for my home, your video, although for the Gold, is going to help me set up the purple

[Henfredemars]

It took a few months, but this video introduced me to the world of consumer routers with built-in intrusion detection and prevention systems.

[oscarmvl]

Thanks for he video, it does seem like a very robust solution for someone who doesn’t want to spend hours trying to setup a firewall, and especially taking into account the throughput that you get, and it being fanless which means you can hide it in the comms box next to the ISP modem.

[rodster]

Brilliant and glad to see its avail in Australia also - just purchased one because of this video. Been looking for a device like this that is simple to sue and has the granularity to configure and monitor everything on my network. For a family its great for keeping Teenagers and kids at bay on the internet. Only place in OZ that sells it is LTS Security in Australia is where I got mine from.

[TheIcarusSystem]

Nice timing, I've been looking for alternatives to my pfsense box.

[leonardobehrens]

Good video. Like all things Internet. Lots of "individualists" saying here they have something cheaper etcetera etcetera.
All in all they forgot :
1 That takes time
2 each individual had to tweak the device one way or another to different specs.
3 everyone had different knowledge and backgrounds
The device is supposed to be convenient without taking all your time.
Suggestions or comments are way better if they compare apples to apples.
Not apples to....pudding.

[stalksover]

Was going to buy dream machine pro coming from pfsense and Cisco router. Firewalla Gold is awesome love the anti lockout feature using Bluetooth, easy to setup networks and vlans, statistics are good, ips/ids seems to work nicely and no noise. The web GUI isn’t good I’ve had no issues managing the device via the app in fact it is easy. I love the inbuilt ddns. If your looking at a firewall really consider this device.

[bamabaso]

I bought and setup the firewall gold primarily because of this video. Super well explained, Gary!

[mtxpert]

Just got my Gold Plus and installed it, so freaking awesome to be able to go full pipe on my 1.2G internet connection finally!

[shubhampatil]

Garry can you make video on various 2FA methods, best account protection practices ?

[knjpollard]

Just got the gold plus that is 2.5gigabit. I am going to set it up first behind my router, but will also be trying it as my router.

[AmericanPatriots]

Have used the Firewalla Gold and Blue. Love them! Super easy to deploy and manage. Personally, the Gold or Purple are worth the money over the Blue.

[gamerzer]

I own three "Golds" and they work perfectly. Its an amazing firewall that gets updated with great new features. Their customer service and tech support is great.

There is a new Purple one... We need Gary to explain that to us too :)

[JoeyBaby]

Other than the simple setup, how is this different from pfsense? Can you set this up from a browser or just from the phone?

[MarkKeller]

*GARY!!!*
Good afternoon Professor!
Good afternoon fellow classmates!
Stay safe out there everybody!

[raphaelgman]

Great explanation the setup has been perplexing me as well, I think I had the double NAT issue going on because I couldn't affect my individual devices this video will help.

[ImaITman]

Holy crap it has docker!!!! That's freaking amazing!

[Lilacplayzzzzz]

just picked on of these with other bits like POE heaps of stuff on local auction site for 75 bucks, now that i watched this video and checked the price for these, great investment, and honestly i am sick of pfsense too much to muck around with.

[SpaceCadetJesus]

An overlooked point is if you put a wireless cable modem into "bridge mode", it will connect your Firewalla directly to the internet as expected, but you will lose the wifi portion of your wireless cable modem.
Alot of ISP modems come with wireless capability so in order to keep the wifi you will either buy a new wifi router or access points and attach them to the LAN side of the Firewalla, OR you will not bridge the cable modem at all.
If you don't bridge the cable modem, then, as the video explains, you will automatically have a double NAT network, which is perfectly fine, useable and FAST, unless you need special access from the internet using a VPN or some specific connection.
For home use or very small business uses, I find double NAT helps serve as a non-intentional security hurdle against hackers.

[nahco]

I feel like at that price point, the Firewalla Gold should really be compared to the entry level models from Fortinet or Barracuda. Do you know how it holds up against those names?