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Looking to go to Sophos XG

nipun amey

Hi everyone. I have wanted to try out Sophos XG for a while now. The only thing that has stopped me is that I was worried that I wouldn't be able to sustain my Verizon FiOS Gigabit Down/UP connection with the hardware limitations in the Sophos XG home edition. I am currently running pfSense on this hardware. It has an Intel Atom C2758 2.4Ghz 8-Core CPU, 16 GB RAM, and a 120gb SSD.

I know the Sophos XG Home will ignore some of the cores and RAM but will I be able sustain my Gigabit connection with features like IPS, AV, SSL decrypt, etc. turned on? If so, is 120 gb SSD enough or do I need larger for reporting/logs? I wouldn't be against buying an appliance but from what I have seen they cost a lot of money plus you have to buy a license to get the extra features. The ones I saw also didn't really say they support gigabit with the features above turned on. If my hardware won't get the job done, is there any hardware that will? Does anyone else here use Sophos XG with FiOS? Any issues with it?



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    For what it’s worth, I run Sophos XG Home on a Qotom Q355G4 which has a Intel 5250U CPU. With IPS disabled, it can easily handle my gigabit ISP connection. Prior to XG v18, it would drop to about 300 Mbps with IPS enabled. With XG v18, if the traffic is handed off to the “FastPath”, I’m back to my the max speed of my ISP (~900 Mbps) which is expected since IPS no longer applies to that connection. The life of a packet thread covers the XG 18 architecture changes.

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    For what it’s worth, I run Sophos XG Home on a Qotom Q355G4 which has a Intel 5250U CPU. With IPS disabled, it can easily handle my gigabit ISP connection. Prior to XG v18, it would drop to about 300 Mbps with IPS enabled. With XG v18, if the traffic is handed off to the “FastPath”, I’m back to my the max speed of my ISP (~900 Mbps) which is expected since IPS no longer applies to that connection. The life of a packet thread covers the XG 18 architecture changes.

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