Updates from some testing so far: 1. FortiGate 40F and FortiAP 221 Dear god these has to be the most confusing, bloated, buggy and slowly loading cloud managed network products on the market. A complex myriad web portals, many with duplicative features, none intuitive to use for a new network setup. Got the FortiGate up and running for routing and firewall, but AP never would register and get its config. Biggest problem: all of the FortiNet support sites literally won't load any KB articles (e.g. https://docs.fortinet.com/) and take literally 10 minutes to load one page. I'm sorry but is this 1995? NEXT! RMA'ing these boys. 2. Eero POE Gateway + POE AP It's magically easy to set up (too easy!) but even more limited config options vs. Meraki Go. No real QOS settings, limited firewall config settings, sparse details from their support team on what capabilities the firewall actually has. Would like to give this an honesty try but worried we'd have QOS issues with ~10 voip phones in our most populated site, and the lack of advanced config options is concerning. 3. Netgear Insight products for business - maybe the best option I've tested so far. PR60X router/firewall, a managed insight switch and AP. Had hope for this series and the router setup went very smoothly. Cloud UI is very easy to use, and shockingly the quick start guide in the box was actually accurate for how to get it up and running, registered to insight cloud management, etc. I hit a speedbump with AP setup because I didn't realize you have to allocate licenses ("Insight Credits") before registering the serial number to your site or else the registration gets messed up and the device never successfully gets provisioned. Had to wait on hold for an hour for their support to tell me this, but at least they knew the problem right away and it was a quick fix. Overall, Insight line could be a good option tbh, except one annoyance: you can't set a nickname for clients on the network, and their auto detected manufacturer/OS is not very accurate (e.g. labeled a wifi speaker as an Xbox360). TLDR: Meraki Go isn't gone yet, but already missing it 😭
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