FortiGate 40F Unboxing

[@FortinetGuru]

First real "Unboxing". Hope you guys enjoy it. Please post what you would like to see or edits or tweaks to the format you would like to see. This channel grows and improves based on your feedback!

[@DavidMartinez-ef6ep]

You have always helped me with Fortinet hardware and it's appreciated.

[@EverythingEvo]

I've deployed a few FortiWiFi 40F and they've been rock solid. Powerful little boxes for a great price/value.

[@fooey88]

Love this type of quick review. Not too long and not too short. 👍

[@bebechimello]

Hi man ! Very good you can now do some unboxing, congrats ! For the first unboxing I think you are great !!! For the next ones maybe a top camera or more light would be great too !!! Thanks for your effort to bring us more content !!! 🥂 !!! Keep doing this wonderful job, we need more quality content like these.

[@wonkytwit7464]

I have 30+ units out there in production and they are rock solid. Great option for small 3-5 person dental offices.

[@J-Bae]

That's great to hear. I hope to see more of these in the future.. I'm watching this video specifically to hear your thoughts on scoping environments. Digging the hairstyle change. Glad to see new videos. Cheers!

[@HC19200]

Thank you Mike!

[@RaviChinasamy]

Great devices, and I have went crazy with the fortiwifi 3g/4g models. Have 22 of these bad boys currently being deployed. Zero issue so far and no regrets. It's like having a fortigate, fortiap, fortiswitch and fortiextender all blended together at a super nice price.

[@harrylumsdon6773]

Just deployed 270 of them. 5 months in. Happy!

[@arxileecharxos]

In my job (ISP) we have installed about 90 cpes 40F (mostly used as Leased Line Router) a truly value for money box- NFWM.

[@FortinetGuru]

Yeah, I am a big fan of them. I have clients buying them to function as high security cradle points and more for their use cases.

[@btn006]

Hi. Great video and channel. Looking to buy either the 40F or a 60F for advanced home use, but are the 40F/60F boxes same fysical size

[@saifemran4528]

Thanks for the review!

[@Andykiller525]

Great content from you, as always! You make great content on new firmware versions also, and talk about that it should not be used in production environment before tested, for example with 7.0 that just launched, and 6.4.X that you have mentioned several times in the past. I fully support you on that, but struggle to be on top of all the versions in regards to testing them all myself. Just don't have the time to test all versions fully. In your opinion, what's the latest "safe" firmware available at the moment, that you can vouch for with your own testing? That would be a great starting point for my own testing, before actually going into production with it. On 6.2.7 at the moment, myself.

[@FortinetGuru]

6.2.7 or 6.4.5

[@Alex-un5tl]

great video as always can you please do a review of the FortiWiFi 40F-3G4G as well? :)

[@MrREH1962]

I have a FortiWifi 40F for my home office and I love it. However, having dumb little issues with 6.4.6 like the speed status lights on the front panel won't display properly. Reverted back to 6.4.5. Anyone having issues with 6.4.6? Thanks for the great Fortinet channel. I am new to Fortinet and love your tips and insights.

[@KL-bi2un]

Is the 40f the natural upgrade/device to get in 2022 February for a small business (6 users). My IT guy is still recommending the 30E but it sounds like the 40f is much better. Thanks

[@andrevangijsel957]

What features are included with the standard box? What can and what can't be configured without additional licencing? I've seen the licencing prices and these are on cisco plus level :)

[@douglasarnoldakers]

Thank you.

[@DannyMaas]

Sold and installed a few for OOB-access with bigger companies.

[@FortinetGuru]

Extremely useful use case for them!

[@grupofx528]

buenos dias una pregunta nosotros trabajamos con el router tplink TL-ER6020 (Router VPN WAN Dual Gigabit SafeStream) pero para conectarnos con ese router no necesitamos de licencias conforme nos dicen en el fortinet que la licencia es anual; si so necesitamos de ese software fortinet para conectarnos a esa vpn o podemos hacerlo via windows para que asi la licencia sea gratis.

[@andreastalcup137]

Hi Mike, can you do a video on FortiAI please? Thank you!

[@FortinetGuru]

Maybbbeeeeee 😎

[@rtvdenys]

It does not have local storage, however, does it? This seem like a pretty strong limiting factor if compared to 61F. Am I missing something?

[@FortinetGuru]

0 model gates do not have storage.

[@AnthonyCassidy50]

How about logging? I recall you recommending that if we wanted to do logging, without needing forticloud, we should get a 51E or a 61E. Do you e if there are any cloudless 40F, eg a 41F? Or is the subscription model the future.

[@FortinetGuru]

If you want local storage you need a X1 model. Most are starting to use the free forticloud logging.

[@EverythingEvo]

FortiAnalyzer is perfect for logging and its not too expensive. Highly recommend.

[@stephensukhai3311]

Do you recommend deploying to a small office with 100 devices (Pc’s, tablets, phones) or less, internet is 100\100,. And I was told another port can be configured as a 2nd wan port (failover internet), is this possible? I do plan on deploying with Fortinet switch’s and APs

[@FortinetGuru]

You can. I would prob do a 60F just do if you have a lot of vlans in the future you can do inspection across them.

[@A1N0]

I have a 40F in my home-office, and its slow... At most we have two Mac users at once, along with other household stuff. It is very frustrating. I have two FortiAPs and nothing else. Most parts are OK but web browsing creates a noticeable delay. The first 6.4 had memory leaks and it would eventually reboot. 6.4.5 is much better, and slightly faster but still slow.

[@FortinetGuru]

That’s lame. Sorry you are experiencing those issues. Would like to know more about the setup as I’ve been spitting these things out like fire without issue.

[@joellemorris5684]

Hi there! I'm in my researching period, so I have many questions. But in this case, with the Fortigate 40F, will I be be able to create 2 VLANs and have SD-WAN with 2 ISPs?

[@FortinetGuru]

Yes you can do that.

[@EverythingEvo]

Of course, easily! You can create hundreds of VLANs on it.

[@paolom3894]

Jack Black, are you?

[@FlorianZevedei]

Did I get it correctly, that the amount of "Hardware Switches" is limited per device, due to the amount of real chips on the board?

[@FortinetGuru]

Hardware switches depend on whether the device has switch fabric. Otherwise, they can only do software switches. The number of hardware switches is dependent on ports and maybe even some specifics about the box. FortiSwitch management is dependent on platform.

[@FlorianZevedei]

@@FortinetGuru Thanks for the inside !

[@sherilyntambiling9218]

Where is the simcard slot

[@nathanlaird]

Cellular connectivity is accomplished via a modem into the USB port.

[@Sharko187]

I saw the license on top :P

[@FortinetGuru]

It has no entitlement.

[@Sharko187]

@@FortinetGuru im just kiding.

[@FortinetGuru]

❤️❤️

[@boobalannanjappan9484]

Hi! Does the license comes with the box when we buy it? or do we need to buy it separately ?