Vault 2 Port, Firewall Micro Appliance/Mini PC - Intel Dual Core, AES-NI, 8GB RAM, 120GB mSATA SSD

Gut verbeitet, recht teuer für die Performance

This thing has been great. It's the perfect router/firewall for my home. It's silent and reliable. Protectli also has a great little UPS to use with this.

Bought this for a pfsense firewall build. Note that there are pfsense alternatives that may swap the ethernet ports in the config, but pfsense gets the Lan and Wan ports defined properly out of the box. Handles blocking rules and gigabit ethernet with no problems so far. Doesn't eat much power, just quietly does its job.

The photos for the product showed a power adapter that comes with several different plug types for different contries. The supplied power supply is not only a different style, but does not come with these adapters, meaning I am unable to plug the device in without first purchasing another power supply, which I could have done at the same time had I known.

My 5 star rating is all about what you get for the money with this machine. As for details folks shopping for a similar product may be interested in... - This machine can't do 1Gbit throughput between interfaces with pfsense: I needed a replacement for my old small-formfactor machine I had been running pfsense on because I upgraded my internet service to 1Gbit/50Mbit, and the old machine had realtek interfaces which topped out at 275 Mbit. I grabbed this box because of the price point and my budget, and when testing it maxed out just under 600Mbit/50Mbit. With my MacBook Pro directly to the modem I got 1Gbit/50Mbit easy, and when I tested with iperf using UDP from the WAN port of this machine to an ec2 T2.micro I was able to achieve 988Mbit download. Based on this testing I concluded that the celleron in this machine just isn't quite up to the task of routing 1Gbit of traffic between interfaces. During testing I could see that the majority of the CPU time was juggling interrupts and the CPU usage was absolutely maxed out. So my 5 star rating is subjective around my intended use case, because I am fine with the current performance and I plan on dropping the cash for a core i5 or i7 machine later, and then re-purposing this machine. I did want to make people aware that for a common use of these machines (running pfsense) you may have trouble achieving line-rate throughout across the two interfaces.