Support for the Draytek is £39 annually, which is really more of an extended warranty. Support on SonicWall means you will get 24/7 telephone support, and warranty as long as you keep the support going.Ī rack mount kit for the Draytek is around £50. For Wi-Fi add £80 and for a rack mount kit add £170. If you want to keep the SonicWall in support that’s around £150 a year (including security updates). Cost also plays a part in ownership of both devices. The most obvious difference is cost with the Draytek being a more affordable £220 with Wi-Fi whereas the SonicWall currently costs over £650 without Wi-Fi. These are similar in that they are capable of connecting to a range of different internet technologies on the WAN, are available with Wi-Fi or without, have multiple gigabit ports and support IPV6, a very configurable port redirection and forwarding management interface that’s where these two devices part ways. Broadly speaking you can’t go wrong with either and we have a lot of experience with both, in fact we use a mix of both in our own infrastructure, but let’s try to hammer out the differences between the two models we regularly recommend the Draytek 2860 (2860n) and the SonicWall TZ400 which has recently replaced the TZ215.

We come across small businesses who are using home grade hardware and are looking for router advice, aside from saying (as nicely as possible) “not that”, we need to make recommendations.įor ITW4 it always seems to come down to the choice of two brands, Draytek or SonicWall. Business security versus the bank balance.īusiness owners always want to strike the balance between quality and price and with routers, quality really means reliability, security and feature set.

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