Reviews of WinGate

1. 
   psycros

   Reviewing 6.2.1 Build 1113 (Feb 8, 2007)

   Wingate does two things that no cheapo router I've ever seen can do: real-time detailed reports of all traffic, and full NAT while still taking advantage of a proxy cache. Its also just about the only way to share a dial-up connection, which is all that many of us can get (don't even mention XP's Internet Connection Sharing..*gag*). The documentation could be better and some functions are rather cryptic to configure (access policies come to mind). But its still the best software routing solution that I've come across, and I've tried most of them.
2. 
   Serge

   Reviewing 6.0.0.942 Beta 2 (May 27, 2004)

   The best routing progr, more stable than Kerio WinRoute Firewall. Replace with a simple router? But what about caching web-pages, e-mail server, firewall, protection from viruses, etc.?
3. 
   H8TEIRIS

   Reviewing 5.0.4 Beta (Apr 14, 2003)

   Help me out... why do i need this. I can just put 2 nic's I'm my computer and use a little hub and I'm done. Or i can just buy a router.
4. 
   tony1l

   Reviewing 5.0.4 Beta (Apr 13, 2003)

   I used Wingate for more than 2 years, it was great for it's time. Unforunately it's easly replaced with a simple 80 dollar DSL/cable router today. That's about 30+ more than their software sells. I must give Wingate a point for it's good customer service though, they always responded to my "questions" email's within 48hours. But I have to subtract a point because it does require that the "Server" computer stay turned on, and routers do not have such a weakness. I had trouble playing internet games with Wingate in certain circumstances while both my computers were playing on the same game server, again a router based solution has fixed all these issues.
5. 
   james1958

   Reviewing 5.0 Beta F (Aug 8, 2002)

   If you are a network admin, then beware.
   
   This will mess your network if you have a Windows 2000 domain.
   
   Installing it on thegateway server to do what it is supposed to do, rendered the entire network unstable.
   
   One thing that I have to give deefield credit for is their professional support and good customer service.
   
   You'll have to install this on your domain controller, and just how many network admins you know that are willing to put their primary domain controllers as the gateway?
   
   To have full control over the clients you'll have to isntall the buggy crap of the client, and good luck after that with trouble shooting the sudden loss of connection to the domain controller and the inability to retrieve/save your roaming profiles.
   
   If you are a home users or have small network with no romain profiles, no domain controller, just peer to peer network, this will work, but it will be an expensive purchase.

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