Micro Firewall Appliance, Mini PC, OPNsense, Untangle, VPN, Router PC, Intel N5105, HUNSN RJ03, AES-NI, 4 x Intel 2.5GbE I226-V LAN, Type-C, TF, M.2 WiFi 6 Slot, 8G RAM, 64G SSD

I recently discovered that my ISP allows me to upgrade my service to 2Gbps, and 5Gbps. I have a pfSense firewall I built about 10 years ago but it has been perfectly capable of handling 1Gbps with IPS/IDS, VPN, Web Proxy with SSL dycyption, and any other package I wanted. Howevery, it couldnt do 2Gbps. I upgraded the NIC and I just started having all kinds of intermitted issues. I orginally didnt want to use the mini pc solution because I was concerned with the overheating and how it performs when you start loading packages in. Well, have no fear this beast punches way above its weight class.

First, they delivered the product quicker than I thought, I probably got it like 5 or 6 days before the expected date.

Update: The seller made everything right. They sent me a pre-paid label to ship the DOA unit back and shipped me a new unit. The new unit worked perfectly.

I purchased a few other units like this one and of all the ones I tried, this one is the best.

The first unit received, purchased during a lightning deal, had a hardware flaw that would not allow me to boot or install any peripheral. After a short and painless support ticket concluded that it was nothing to do with memory, hard drive(s), or install media being used it was returned.

Bought thisto replace an aging Netgate router/firewall running pfSense after reading a recommendation on Reddit. While the product description here implies that this unit comes with OPNsense, it actually came with pfSense Community Edition 2.6.0 installed. Not a big deal to me, but those who want to run OPNsense will need to be prepared to install that image onto the system. I was pleasantly surprised at how well this little box works for my complicated multi-WAN setup with 2 Gbps fiber service. If youre looking for an inexpensive pfSense router/firewall, give this a serious look.

No issues. Item arrived much quicker than I expected. I got the bare bones version as others complained about getting misconfigured systems. This also allowed me to get specific RAM and HD and was less than the pre configured one.

Used this to make a router. Works great - does Quality of Service at better then GB speeds.

As the title states, it will no longer power on after 5 months for no apparent reason.

Runs pfsense w/o a hiccup. If I could wish for improvements itd be a more recent / powerful cpu and wi-fi. As is, it has no problem pushing 1.2gb on my 1gb internet.