Hi everyone . I have just joined the sophos group and have gone through a lot of very intelligent and informative posts. I know this topic has come up before. But I will like to describe my situation here and will welcome any suggestions.
I am looking for firewall for my home. It's a decent size home with significant Home automation via Control4. Now, between IP security cameras and automation devices inlcuding touch panels and remotes, TV's. blu ray players etc, it does put the number of clients that need IP addresses well north of 50. But they dont need to be connected to the internet or protected by UTM except for the main control 4 processor box . Now I am able to control all the devices remotely via control4 web browser based or smartphone app based control. So I will need internet access to main processor. Same way IP cams dont need to be connected to internet . But I need a way to remotely view them by connecting to a central app .
Between the PC's/laptops/ipads/phones etc , the IP's will be well below 50.
So my question is what is the best way to isolate the devices that just need to be on local network from the ones that need to be actively protected by UTM. And to be clear, I used sonicwall and sonicpoint for last 6 months , but found it to be very slow and very inconsistent and not very user friendly to configure for a home user like me who is not in IT industry. I do have more than basic network understanding . Sonicpoint wireless connection was no where close to cisco or even Asus access points. So I will be happy to get a Sophos hardware if I need to , but will like to at least try this for sometime and get used to it before investing 2-3K per year again, which seems overkill for a home. I can use my current Linksys or asus router to make a secondary network if I need to . And please provide some details in network creation suggestions as I am not as advanced in networking as lot of you guys are.
Thanks in advance
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