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XG105W Review

So I thought it was time to do a small review on the XG105W, in a nut shell I don't think this product is good value. In fact, I think it's a low grade product. I started trying out the XG210 for work, seemed ok so I picked up XG85W for home so I could roll out updates first at home then at work. The 85 lasted about a month, complete junk, rebooting continually, unresponsive, even had it swapped out during that month but exact same issues. Out came my pocket book to spend more money to upgrade to the XG105W, although slightly faster its still a terrible product in my opinion. It's very sluggish, wifi is continually is in and out, in fact its so bad I'm having to reboot almost every few days.

After approx. 2 years using these XG's I can say I would honestly not recommend them, they are not enterprise products by any means. For myself once the 3 year subscription is done I will replace with an actual enterprise product, for work, I cant say just yet but I can see us moving to aother product, it was a poor decision on my part.

Very disappointed with this product.



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  • Ok.  I booted my 3 "home" devices today and booted them with a CD rom loaded with test utilities.

    There is absolutely no doubt that an XG105 upgraded to 4 gig of memory and a 256 gig SSD performs as well if not outperforms an XG115 in most situations.

    I checked today.  $20 for an 256 gig SSD, and another $20 for 4 Gig of memory.

    With those two hardware upgrades, the XG105 becomes faster than an XG106 all around.

    There is absolutely no question about it.  With a maximum of $50 of hardware upgrade, an XG105 will run v18 as well if not better than an XG115.

    This is immoral and Sophos has to behave as a responsible corporate citizen.  Our planet is already flooded with waste.

    Rethink it Sophos.

    Paul Jr

  • Thanks I added a 8GB stick to help with the maxed out memory, runs at 51% mostly. No SSD upgrade, don't want to invest any more money into this product, time for a Cisco upgrade after the subscription runs its course.

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