Product Review: Corrent S3500 TurboCard

Main	1. Photos	2. Features	3. Licensing	4. Installation
5. Putting It To Work	6. Under The Hood	7. Conclusions	8. Pricing And Ordering	More Information

5. Putting It To Work:

Surprisingly, Firewall-1/VPN-1 works just the same as always (from the administrator's perspective) with the TurboCard installed, only faster. I wasn't able to see anything different when using the SmartDashboard, SmartView Status, or SmartUpdate. It appears the card just quietly coordinates with Firewall-1/VPN-1 in the enforcement module.

I wanted to test the limits of what this card could do, but my commercial grade DSL is inadequate to the task. The TurboCard's 2.7 Gb/s throughput is fully 2,700 times greater than my maximum 1 Mb/s Internet download speed and 27 times faster than the 100 Mb/s NIC's I use in my lab. I moved some big files around with FTP and Firewall-1/VPN-1 and the TurboCard simply loafed through the whole exercise and mocked me for trying.

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