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wchp
Apr 22, 2019Luminary
Stateful or Deep packet inspection or other?
Does the Bitdefender/Netgear Armor firewall use SPI (Stateful packet inspection, e.g. SonicWall) or DPI (Deep packet inspection, e.g. Bitdefender Box 2) or is it just a blacklist of know bad sites an...
wchp
Jun 15, 2019Luminary
I called sales and asked pre sales support who then had to find a sales engineer who then hand to get support involved...
Finally got to someone who understood exactly what my question was and was able to discuss throughput overhead and potential for latency and jitter.
I have only been able to measure about a 7-10% hit on throughput, no real change in latency or jitter.
I will admit the AV client installation leaves a bit to be desired.
Key there was to make sure ALL AV products from any other vendor were uninstalled and on Windows machines defender was turned off before you ran the install.
On the MACs a nusience to have to go into security and manually grant disk access to the bitdefender daemon.
I install SonicWall and Untangle firewalls for customers. I have found so far that the Armor product seems far better suited to a typical homeowner but that the BD-AV desktop software install still seems a little cumbersome.
I have experienced no issues with any streaming (Roku, Amazon and Apple TV) on any of the client devices.
I am running this on a RBR-50. I did not test it on a RBR-20.
Orbi-Roc
Jun 16, 2019Luminary
Great info here wchp . Thank you.
Jitter for me was quite noticeable, and I have the TV plugged directly into the RBS50 satellite. With Armor activated, a Netflix Ultra HD would load slowly and start playing at 20% or so; without Armor, downloads reach 100% within two seconds or so and then viewing starts.