NordLayer

Remote workstation is great with NordLayer

Vorteile:

iPhone, Android, Linux, and Macintosh are all supported devices for this VPN, which allowed me to run the same VPN across all of my gadgets and get an excellent connection. Even during a trial version, NordLayer offers the most reliable IP address selection from various countries.

Nachteile:

Currently, the only details accessible are a detailed description of the remote device's CPU and RAM and its connection time. Counting the time spent on a machine or in a group over a given period is problematic. Last week, it was impossible to identify whose computers had been accessed.

Fantastically easy to use but support not always helpful with backend issues

Kommentare: With all staff suddenly working remotely, we needed a secure option that allowed a dedicated gateway for remote staff to use. NordLayer allowed us to configure 50 staff easily and without any major disruption to business thanks to useful team admin interface and ease of setup/installation via the Windows and Linux client.

Vorteile:

The online user interface and the software interface itself are easy enough for all staff to navigate, in particular admin can restrict settings within the app to ensure correct use and reduce tickets from staff having issues connecting.

Nachteile:

Downtime on our dedicated UK Gateway has been frequent enough that we had to provision a backup server located in France which we end up using several times a month. Support not always helpful and tend to refer to basic troubleshooting when clearly a server issue.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Perimeter 81

Warum NordLayer gewählt wurde: Went from having a small number of staff who needed remote access to the entire workforce and Nord was much easier to scale for the whole team.

Zuvor genutzte Software: PureVPN

Gründe für den Wechsel zu NordLayer: Based on a recommendation from a partner and our sister company were also making the switch to Nord at the time.

Good VPN but lacking features and customisation

Vorteile:

User interface is very simple and straightforward. Easy to install and deploy. Team management is also easy.

Nachteile:

Having used NordVPN, it seems it has less features. Customer support is very unhelpful. When trying to use other protocols, they don't always work.

Doesn't get in the way of your day today work

Kommentare: Excellent. Easy to setup. Easily forgotten once connected. I never think; will I be able to do my work today? Will I be able to complete my work before the VPN provider kicks me off my dedicated IP? I haven't needed to contact support. As far as I know, we've only had a handful of issues connecting which were solved by a local (home) router reboot.

Vorteile:

We as a team love that NordLayer doesn't get in the way of our work. Previous VPN providers we used were constantly causing issues. Once connected to NordLayer's VPN, you forget that you are connected. This is, in our opinion exactly what a VPN should do.

Nachteile:

The software delivers on everything we need. There's nothing to complain about.

Great solution for site to site connections

Kommentare: It's mostly great. The channel account manager has been helpful, was able to connect me to the right people in support to get me up and running.

Vorteile:

The ability to connect the VPN in a router in order to connect a device to their VPN that otherwise wouldn't support VPN on its own. Their desktop clients are easy enough to use, even on Linux (which is entirely done in the terminal using the command line interface).

Nachteile:

Hard to use without a static IP. I intend on getting a static IP later, but for now I have been holding off. Every time my public IP changes, I need to get level 2 support to update the VPN server to connect to the new IP. They say they'll have a feature in the portal some time next year allowing me as the admin to update it myself, but I'll probably have a static IP by then.