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FortiGate

Physical Product · Routers, mesh Wi-Fi & networking · 10 mentions · 3 subreddits · discussed in r/sysadmin, r/Ubiquiti, r/homelab

Reddit take

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Pros

  • We swapped our sonicwall environment to fortigate. All of our weird issues stopped. Blocking is so much better, and content control.
  • Fortigate is way ahead of Sonicwall.
  • My whole family is on UniFi but at my workplace I would rather have a fortigate
  • Instead of using and patching Windows Servers, we got a FortiGate (spec for your needs) and use it as the AOVPN gateway.
  • When I access the default gateway, I land on a FortiGate interface, and I also saw they’re using Cisco switches.

Cons

  • That is what I'm trying to figure out, but the documentation on Fortigate is leaving me some issues. We are also behind on some upgrades before we can't lose SSL-VPN at the moment and I can't for for the life of me get Single Sign on SAM...
  • Before we converted, we were running VELO and Fortigate behind it. Those failed more than Unifi units
  • $99 a year for the additional security.. that’s nothing.. have you seen the prices of fortigate? And they still have breaches.

Sentiment

7 positive (70%) · 0 mixed (0%) · 3 negative (30%)

Trust + time weighted score: +45% · raw score 40%

What redditors said (10 of 10)

We swapped our sonicwall environment to fortigate. All of our weird issues stopped. Blocking is so much better, and content control.
positive · u/T****n · r/sysadmin · comment · Dec 25, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Fortigate is way ahead of Sonicwall.
positive · u/U****e · r/sysadmin · comment · Dec 25, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
My whole family is on UniFi but at my workplace I would rather have a fortigate
positive · u/o****g · r/Ubiquiti · comment · Dec 18, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
That is what I'm trying to figure out, but the documentation on Fortigate is leaving me some issues. We are also behind on some upgrades before we can't lose SSL-VPN at the moment and I can't for for the life of me get Single Sign on SAML working over IPSec for end user.
negative · u/M****I · r/sysadmin · comment · Dec 5, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Instead of using and patching Windows Servers, we got a FortiGate (spec for your needs) and use it as the AOVPN gateway.
positive · u/t****n · r/sysadmin · comment · Jul 23, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
When I access the default gateway, I land on a FortiGate interface, and I also saw they’re using Cisco switches.
positive · u/S****5 · r/Ubiquiti · Jul 15, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I have an old Fortigate at home and the SSL inspection blocks some sketchy ads coming from the web.
positive · u/C****r · r/homelab · comment · Jul 8, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Before we converted, we were running VELO and Fortigate behind it. Those failed more than Unifi units
negative · u/P****2 · r/sysadmin · comment · Jul 3, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I'd look into fortigates. A lot of different models that are competitively priced and they're easy to use even for large companies.
positive · u/j****4 · r/sysadmin · comment · Jan 30, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
$99 a year for the additional security.. that’s nothing.. have you seen the prices of fortigate? And they still have breaches.
negative · u/B****3 · r/Ubiquiti · comment · Jan 8, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗

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