Soho 401 VPN Firewall

By placing a firewall between your local network (LAN/WLAN) and the Internet, you can make it very hard for hackers and other sinister people roaming the internet, to gain access to your local network. That is, if you have configured your firewall correctly. This can be especially important for businesses and people with sensitive information on their computer systems. A very neat function most hardware firewalls have is the ability to securely connect the local area network to other local area networks in different locations over the Internet, thus creating a Virtual Private Network (VPN). With VPN you can safely share network resources with remote offices or play games with your friends as if you were on the same LAN!

HotBrick´s SoHo 401 VPN is the perfect solution to protect your network from external threats (hackers, invasions, etc) while providing safe VPN connections to remote networks. The SoHo 401 VPN is a firewall, a high bandwidth router, and a 4 port switch that can connect securely to remote networks through VPN (Virtual Private Network) tunnels. VPN is an encryption mechanism that makes safe connections ... More>>> possible between networks over the internet. The VPN tunnel can use IPSec or PPTP (Windows VPN). The SoHo 401 VPN can connect with other VPN capable products, like the HotBrick VPN Client or Windows PPTP VPN. It is an outstanding high performance and cost effective product.

The SoHo 401 VPN is ideal for those who need to share their high bandwidth internet connection with several users securely.

The SoHo 401 VPN was developed to respond to the needs of small offices and home users who connect to the internet using a high bandwidth connection and need a safe and simple internet sharing solution. Up to 4 users can connect directly to SoHo 401 VPN ports, or up to 253 users using hubs and switches. The SoHo 401 VPN is easy and simple to install and requires no specific network knowledge.

HotBrick´s SoHo 401 VPN allows the definition of access policies, with user division into groups with distinct internet access and policies. It also allows controlling and blocking undesirable web sites and works as a DHCP server, assigning IP numbers to the computers of your network while releasing a computer from that task.

The SoHo 401 VPN provides firewall protection against attempted attacks and invasions. It has NAT (Network Address Translation), SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection), anti DoS (Denial of Service) features and provides attack alerts via email. <<<Less