Firewalla

The app and the devices are awesome. But their support of routers is not as good as they rate in their support page. I had an eero v1 which is not supported and upgraded to the ubiquity AmpliFi Instant which is certified as fully compatible, yet performance for monitored devices of the firewalla blue is well below 25Mbps. For device thanI turn off monitoring of, I do get my full WiFi performance. Keep this in mind and make sure to have a fully compatible router. Don’t just pick one off the compatible list. But verify compatibility with the Firewalla staff.

If you want to protect your network and have great visibility into what is going on under the hood, Firewalla is a great solution. It’s easy to install and shows all the devices connected to that network. For each device you can see the traffic and where they are connecting to. You can limit access to the Internet, gaming, porn, social networks and videos. It supports both VPN server and client allowing remote network connections while limiting which devices can use that connection. Is supports DNS caching, encrypting DNS requests limiting your ISP ability to track what you are doing and supports ad blocking. Highly recommended

It's so much easier to use something like this vs. trying to manage it all yourself using OpenWRT/DD-WRT. I had everything in place at one point but then my router was reset to factory defaults and I lost everything. This is a turnkey solution that is worth living every penny for the peace of mind knowing what is happening on your home network. Every father should own one of these. Oh yeah GigoMikol can achieve custom block times for different days by choosing "Weekly" and picking the days. I have two rules setup for my oldest son to allow later internet access on weekends.

So far have been enjoying the logistics of my environment and being able to customize rules, however these 3 things would have made my beginner user experience much better 1. Device needs to be paired with app within first hour of connection, this info is buried in your setup and issues page and would have helped after I tried to add the app to 3 more iOS devices a few hours after setup. 2. iPad support, such nice graphs and yet all I have is a scaled iPhone app stretched on my iPad Pro. 3. For the rules you can create a custom block time, but what if I just want a custom ‘allow time”? Example work app to only be available work days between 8-4pm, as of now I can block from 4-8am, BUT this will include Saturday/Sunday which I would rather block entirely. Thank you

This is a wonderful product. It really helps guys like us that want a constant pulse on our networks. Today’s threats are ever looming and this product helps give us a tool to better stay aware of the contestant threats. Looking forward to seeing you guys continue to grow and release new features. I’ve signed up for the beta program. Can’t wait to see what comes next in new features. --