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Fanless box with gigabit thorughput

Hello, I'm a XG Home user (ESXi appliance), and was thinking of acquiring a physical appliance to install at my sister's, to install XG Home there as well.

I have 1000/300 fiber at home, and she should be getting the same in the coming weeks. So I was thinking IPSec tunnel from here to there... Looking at Sophos' portfolio, the XG 115 Rev 3, seems to fit the bill in terms of throughput (it's no fun if we can't push 300 Mpbs both ways through the tunnel, or lose hundreds of Mbps in the Downloads department for normal web surfing)

The problem is the $595/€670 (VAT incl) price tag. Although, I could afford it, I wouldn't mind spending much less :)  Do you know of any pFSense-like ready boxes, with sufficient processing power, that could compare to the XG 115 AND run XG Home without issues ?

Thanks!



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  • Bare in Mind to check your CPU either is quad core or dual core with Hyper Threading, as i said in my original reply Sophos XG Home Editions max Spec H/W is 4 cores and 6gb ram and i can tell you this from experience you really need to max the home edition out and an I3 with Hyperthreading will do that.  When you have Firewall rules setup with Web Filtering, HTTP & HTTPS Scanning enabled, IPS enabled & ATP enabled you will be glad you made the investment.  

    Also there are several manufacturers that make similar units but Partaker seemed to be one of the best that i found and have since used.  As long as its made by Partaker i dont suppose it matters where you buy it from.

    If you need any more advice feel free to PM me.

    JK

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