The SOHO has quite an array of Content filtering features.  Here's the list:

• You can individually choose to block ActiveX, Java applets, Cookies, or access to WAN based Proxy servers
• You can have the filtering active only during a certain time of the day (just one range) and certain days of the week (one range), or all the time
• You can set a time limit for each web browsing session. (When the timeout is reached, the user gets sent to the Consent page (see below) in order to restart the session.)
• You can enter up to 256 "Trusted" and 256 "Forbidden" domains
• You can display a message (up to 255 characters long) on the user's web browser if they try to access a filtered web site.
• You can enter a list of keywords to filter.  If the keyword is contained in a URL, access to the site will be blocked.

If the above features aren't enough you can subscribe to CyberPatrol's CyberNOT content filter list.  The SOHO comes with a 30 day trial subscription, but extending that subscription will cost you $175 for a year's subscription.. ouch!  If you do subscribe, you can set the SOHO to update the list weekly, at a date and time that you can select.  If the update should fail for some reason, you can select whether to block or enable all site access.

To round out its filtering features, the SOHO has a Consent feature that allows a user to choose whether they want filtered or unfiltered web access.  This feature requires that you create a web page with links back to specific URLs in the SOHO for the filtering selection, and some optional pages for confirming your selection.

Hint: The URLs for this feature must be fully qualified and not contain "http://". 
Example: "www.practicallynetworked.com/consent.htm"

You also can set IP addresses that will always be filtered.  These users will get sent to another web page that you must create that contains a link back to a SOHO URL that enables the filtered session.

I've always felt that a great feature for router/gateway products would be automatic Virus protection.  After all, the threat to your network from viruses, trojans and other such nasties is at least as great as the "open port" danger that everyone seems to focus on.  McAfee Clinic's VirusScan on-line product has taken a big step toward providing this automatic protection, and SonicWall has taken this automatic protection to the next level:  

• First the SOHO will automatically install Anti-Virus protection on every PC on your network.  
• Second, the SOHO automatically updates the software as soon as a new DAT file or engine is available instead of the scheduled once per week update provided by McAfee's Clinic.  
• Finally, if the software has been deactivated or uninstalled on a LAN Client, the SOHO will reactivate and/or reinstall it on the PC.

The catch for all this magic is...you guessed it... it ain't free.  You need to purchase a subscription for each system on your LAN that you want to be protected.  Subscriptions cost $30/user/year, the same as a McAfee Clinic subscription would cost you.  This wonderfulness is also only available for Windows based machines.  MacOS, Linux, and others will have to continue to protect themselves the old-fashioned way.

Had enough? Hope not, since we're only half way through!