Hotbrick went wide open!!

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maxpi

I have a Hotbrick hardware firewall for the trading machine... I whitelist it, only a few url's are open to the computer and all others are blocked.. I have the home page on the browser set to something that should be blocked. This morning I open the browser to manage the whitelist and discover that I can access the whole, wide www world! I checked the Hotbrick, it should be whitelisting, I try blacklisting and it's still open to the whole wide www world... I had to do the physical reset with the reset button on the Hotbrick and reenter the whitelist to get it working again... whether it got hacked or a power glitch just messed it up, I don't know.. but I don't like it..... the other choices are SonicWall and Cisco I guess... I hate Cisco, if you aren't a PhD in computer science you can't even navigate their website let alone set up the firewall.. maybe Sonic is better?
 
This thread is old I see, but I just picked up Netgear's SRX5308 and I gotta say - it is the bomb!

Tons of Firewall features and easy to configure/use
Load balancing
Failover protection
Quad WAN - 924 Mbps WAN-LAN throughput
Gigabit LAN

I am only running 2 of the 4 WAN ports. I picked up 2 Motorola SB6120 modems and have 1 to Comcast and 1 to Wide Open West. More bandwidth than I need but the failover will be nice.

The Router is easy to configure, has a very nice feature set, low latency and incredible throughput!

Here is a review:

NETGEAR ProSafe SRX5308 Gigabit Quad WAN SSL VPN Firewall
 
Quote from Wallace:

XiNCOM Twin WAN XC-DPG502 Router
found xincom reference somewhere on ET, main points were the dual connection
and low price reviewed: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1641359,00.asp
http://www.xincom.com/products/502/overview.php
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The Xincom DPG502 and HotBrick...
Are EXACTLY the same router made in the same factory...
But marketed by 2 different companies.

I used the HotBrick for 2 years (it was tricky, but OK)...
But now I use the PepLink Balance 30..
It's BY FAR the best router I've ever owned.

http://www.peplink.com/balance/
 
Quote from DeeDeeTwo:

The Xincom DPG502 and HotBrick...
Are EXACTLY the same router made in the same factory...
But marketed by 2 different companies.

I used the HotBrick for 2 years (it was tricky, but OK)...
But now I use the PepLink Balance 30..
It's BY FAR the best router I've ever owned.

http://www.peplink.com/balance/
More...

Is the setup easier/intuitive compared to Hotbrick? It whitelists?
 
Quote from maxpi:

Is the setup easier/intuitive compared to Hotbrick? It whitelists?
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It's ** much better designed ** than the Hotbrick...
I simply do not have to worry about it...
Every issue has been easily resolved...
And when a WAN goes down... I don't even notice.

In terms of security...
I don't do much at the router level...
But I'm sure you can download the documentation.
 
thanks DeeDeeTwo for your PepLink Balance recommendation

you said: "And when a WAN goes down... I don't even notice." - if you lose an ISP
feed, doesn't it cause your charting/order entry software to re-start ?
 
Quote from Wallace:

thanks DeeDeeTwo for your PepLink Balance recommendation

you said: "And when a WAN goes down... I don't even notice." - if you lose an ISP
feed, doesn't it cause your charting/order entry software to re-start ?
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I trade spread over 3 PCs...
On a Windows XP network...
So I'm running 2 TWS platforms with API...
Quote data from Thomson Reuters...
And about 50,000 lines of proprietary Algo Systems...
And sending 2,000 order/day = 5/minute...
Over 2 broadband (one cable, one DSL) thru Peplink 30...
And when one of the broadband goes down for a few minutes...
The Peplink fails over...
And I do not even notice.

During the Financial Crisis...
My system up time >>> IB system up time.

Peplink rocks...
They are in it for the long haul...
And make most of their revenue from enterprise > $1,000 routers...
So all that quality trickles down to the $300 retail multi-WAN.
 
Quote from DeeDeeTwo:

I trade spread over 3 PCs...
On a Windows XP network...
So I'm running 2 TWS platforms with API...
Quote data from Thomson Reuters...
And about 50,000 lines of proprietary Algo Systems...
And sending 2,000 order/day = 5/minute...
Over 2 broadband (one cable, one DSL) thru Peplink 30...
And when one of the broadband goes down for a few minutes...
The Peplink fails over...
And I do not even notice.

During the Financial Crisis...
My system up time >>> IB system up time.

Peplink rocks...
They are in it for the long haul...
And make most of their revenue from enterprise > $1,000 routers...
So all that quality trickles down to the $300 retail multi-WAN.
More...

do you still like your peplink 30?
 
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