Have netgear insight for my parents house as far as Switches and AP's as my brother who has been living there since my Dad died last year is comfortable managing the netgear. I have not tried the netgear firewalls yet as I last used a netgear business firewall I think back in 01 or 02 when I swapped it out for a Cisco 831 router. I could not agree more on the fortigate UI, while the hardware has great specs and it's very capable it's not something I want to be training low level techs on for support and with how easy a MX is to setup and manage where as level 1 can directly support it's hard to justify added support costs vs lower hardware/license costs. Rather have higher capx spending and lower opx costs supporting it. It's crazy that pfsense setups like firewalla can be out there for low cost but not a single big player has been successful with a low cost smb firewall line. Most are pretty much VPN boxes with a statefull firewall and nothing more. Honestly if they would just have a line of MX's for SMB that did not have the crazy inflated license fees it would be successful. No need to have a separate line like meraki GO. Not sure why the enterprise license has to be so expensive. I get charge for the Adv and SDwan but if they dropped the enterprise license in half for a mx75 it's pretty much all I would install. And only on the larger clients that can afford the adv sec would I have them upgrade as mist already are looking at MX95's now for adv security to have the mbps needed with security enabled I can't see Cisco taking a loss on each mx75 it sells even without licensing even at its partner price, so add in what it costs for them to operate the cloud for the MX in enterprise mode and surely they are still making a profit even if it was $50 a year in licensing.
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