SonicWall or Sophos for a 100-user retail chain with PCI

That's a really good point about actual performance under load. I've been mostly looking at spec sheets and dashboards.

Do you think the latency difference you saw would hold up if you enabled all the required PCI security services on both devices, like deep packet inspection? I've heard those features can hit throughput hard.

Hey, I'm also trying to figure this out for a smaller setup. That "reliable traffic between stores" point is what's got me stuck too.

The latency test someone mentioned is super interesting. But if you have to turn on all the PCI scanning stuff, does that speed difference just disappear? That's what I'm worried about. Would love to hear from anyone who's actually measured it with everything turned on.