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Home License Hardware recommendation

Julia Berger

Hi everybody,

do you have any (recent) recommendations for hardware for the usage of the Sophos XG Home license? I would prefer something pre-assembled and with a power consumption that stays below 15-20 W in idle. From the connection point of view, 5 or more gigabit Ethernet ports would be required. Concerning the computation resources, I would prefer 4 to 6 GB of RAM and at least two CPU cores, better 4. Does anybody of you have something in use that you can recommend?

Julia



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  • +1 in reply to Para Adam

    Hi,

    if you plan to go to V18 and want to experiment with settings you will be very frustrated with a j1900 processor, way to slow. If you are a set and forget type of guy, the J1900 will handle a 100/40 link without any issues.

    Ian

    XG115W - v19.5.1 mr-1 - Home

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  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    rfcat_vk said:

    Hi,

    if you plan to go to V18 and want to experiment with settings you will be very frustrated with a j1900 processor, way to slow. If you are a set and forget type of guy, the J1900 will handle a 100/40 link without any issues.

    Ian

     

     

    which hardware would you recommend? Would a quadcore J3160 or J3455 be sufficient (both with AES-NI)?

  • 0 in reply to MKR74

    Hi,

    I tried the I3 and I5s but decided they generated too much heat and went back to the e3 series.

    As a home user you need the fastest CPU you can get.

    Now you say, but Sophos use lower power devices in their small XGs which is true, but they are designed as set and forget with the hardware tuned to provide the best performance where as the home licence has no tuning.

    As you can see from my signature I run a e3-1225 which runs around 20-30w after booting but due to a limitation in the XG software I cannot remove the extra two NICs.

    There is a discussion in the EAP forum 

    https://community.sophos.com/products/xg-firewall/sfos-eap/sfos-v18-early-access-program/f/feedback-and-issues/116546/using-eap-refresh-1-iso-to-build-a-test-xg

    Ian

    XG115W - v19.5.1 mr-1 - Home

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  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    rfcat_vk said:

    Hi,

    if you plan to go to V18 and want to experiment with settings you will be very frustrated with a j1900 processor, way to slow. If you are a set and forget type of guy, the J1900 will handle a 100/40 link without any issues.

    Ian

     

    Agree, I'm using an Intel Atom® E3845 and mulling upgrading the hardware or move to another firewall vendor (untangle or pfsense),

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