Batu69 Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Overview Our Free Home Use XG Firewall is a fully equipped software version of the Sophos XG firewall, available at no cost for home users – no strings attached. Features full protection for your home network, including anti-malware, web security and URL filtering, application control, IPS, traffic shaping, VPN, reporting and monitoring, and much more. NOTE: The Sophos XG Free Home Use firewall contains its own operating system and will overwrite all data on the computer during the installation process. Therefore, a separate, dedicated computer is needed, which will change into a fully functional security appliance. Just right for the spare PC you have sitting in the corner! Features Increase your Internet Bandwidth - You can make easy use of traffic shaping to prioritize application traffic over your internet connection and even subscribe to multiple ISP connections to get more bandwidth or resiliency in the event of an outage with one of them. Monitor and control family web surfing - Use Web Filtering to stop sites from infecting you with viruses and spyware, keep your children from surfing to bad sites, and get full reporting on the activity in your home. Also setup access schedules or usage quotas for family members who may be wasting too much time online. Access your home network from anywhere – Use VPN to access your network remotely from anywhere in the world. Stop Viruses - Dual AV scanning engines stop viruses in file downloads, email attachments, and embedded in web sites. Sophos catches them at the gateway, before they can get in to assault your computers. And a lot more... What you need Intel compatible computer with dual network interfaces. (Any previous OS or files on the computer will be overwritten when installing the XG Firewall Home Edition) Home Edition is limited to 4 cores and 6 GB of RAM. The computer can have more than this, but XG Firewall Home Edition will not be able to utilize it. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 NOTE The Sophos XG Free Home Use firewall contains its own operating system and will overwrite all data on the computer during the installation process. Therefore, a separate, dedicated computer is needed, which will change into a fully functional security appliance. Just right for the spare PC you have sitting in the corner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Quote Intel compatible computer with dual network interfaces. Requires two network interfaces since everything will be routed through this appliance. Means it would need to be between your modem and router. Could be looking at severe configuration issues to get the maximum througput from the router and the appliance without creating any redundancy between the two and also any security software you have on your PCs. Ideally this device would be the only security on the network and all other security settings in the router would be disabled, along with any firewall settings on the PCs. Otherwise you are getting into a can of worms trying to troubleshoot any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Home Edition! , only 1% of homes may dedicate a separate computer for such security appliance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 2 hours ago, saeed_dc said: Home Edition! , only 1% of homes may dedicate a separate computer for such security appliance. If even that percentage was true, the number of people who have the skill and knowledge to set something up like this would probably be only .00000000001% I don't see many people actually setting it up, it's a lot of work for no gain over what most advanced/professional computer users have already implemented on their systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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