I am slowly moving from two ISPs to one over a high speed (hopefully at least 50/20). I bought a small box quad core E3845 celeron with 128ssd and 4 intel NICs. I sued this box for UTM for some months and decided to bit the bullet and move myXG on to it. !0w instead of 30-40.
This had to be s standalone build because the serial number was a in use.
Tried using a USB stick as a boot device, not seen by the BIOS.
So I used v17.0.3 ISO i had.
Installed without an issue.
Logged into the GUI in trial mode and setup the password.
Restarted the XG took a little longer than I was used to.
Logged in again in trial mode and installed v17.1.1 again a long reboot.
Logged in again in trial mode and installed my backup, this took even longer to restart, over 5 minutes.
Logged in again in trial mode while waiting for my wife to complete her forum and facebook activities.
Shutdown the old XG, inserted the new on in its place and tied up a lot connections.
Logged again but this time inserted the serial number so I could synchronise the box. After a little while all was well except the 5ghz SSID still takes about 5 minutes after the box is restarted before allowing connections.
Performance wise, seemed to be quicker, still on the old ADSL services.
What I have noticed is how slow the GUI is while performing lookup, generating reports and changing rules. When used as a UTM the CPU never went much above 5% for very short times and was very responsive where as the same hardware runes up to 25% CPU when modifying or reviewing rules under XG software.
The changes to being able to build an XG offline and the DHCP function during build are very big improvements over the original build using v15.
Now waiting for my ISP network upgrade to see how the box performs.
Ian
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