Firewalla Gold Plus

Overview

Firewalla's Gold Plus is a software-defined firewall built around a quad-core 2 GHz Intel CPU with 4GB of RAM — enough headroom to run deep packet inspection on every device on the network at up to 5 Gbps, instead of the token IDS features bolted onto a consumer router.

Key features

• Four 2.5 Gigabit ports mean it doesn't bottleneck a fibre connection that would choke a Gigabit-only firewall, and it can run in router mode as the sole gateway or sit inline behind an existing router in bridge/DHCP mode.
• Every device gets full visibility — bandwidth used, flows initiated, intrusion attempts blocked — all from the Firewalla app rather than a rack-mount appliance's web console, with no monthly subscription required to keep using the core security features.
• VPN Server and Client modes (OpenVPN and WireGuard) let staff reach the office network securely from outside, and multi-WAN/failover support means a second uplink takes over automatically if the primary drops. It doesn't include Wi-Fi, so it's built to sit behind an existing access point or router in AP mode rather than replace one — the right fit for a small office or school network that already has Wi-Fi sorted and needs the security and visibility layer added on top, not another router to reconfigure everything around.