I flashed my FWP with the latest stable firmware but haven’t had time to test again yet. That doesn’t mean Firewalla Purple will replace your current Wi-Fi router it’s more the opposite. The biggest difference is a short-range Wi-Fi radio. I then hooked up my previous Orbi RBR50 and immediately got about 960Mb/s up and down, and everything is working great. Firewalla’s Purple firewall has all the same features as the Gold model in a smaller package. I did another factory reset and saw the same results. The new Firewalla Gold Plus is capable of handling high speed internet connections Firewalla Back in July, I reviewed the Firewalla Purple, a great little box of tricks that’s a mini Linux. I factory reset the FWP and things actually got worse, to the point that almost no traffic was passing and games, streaming and more (Teams, Zoom, etc.) wouldn’t load at all. Over the course of a week my FWP kept reporting WAN disconnects, high packet loss (63% or more), and very low speeds at the WAN port, as little as 120Mb/s down and 0.3Mb/s up. Plus, Firewalla Purple offers protection against cyberattacks and blocks ads, making it the ultimate hardware firewall device. Connecting directly to the ONT with a laptop I would get roughly 940Mb/s up and down.

The Ziply connection is 1Gb/s up and down, but the best speeds I could get doing speed tests at the FWP were about 800Mb/s down and 20Mb/s up. I recently changed ISPs from Comcast to Ziply Fiber and have been experiencing issues since with download and upload speeds degrading daily.

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