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ZBOX mini PCs for Home Edition

cryptochrome

Hi,

has anyone here ever tried the ZBOX mini PCs for the home edition? They have a few quite powerful models with two LAN ports. They look tempting...

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    I got a ZBox CI323nano and it works great.  My only trouble right now is that it only has two Ethernet ports and I'd like 3-4 to do some other things with wifi and DMZ networks.  I can get a mini pci-e Ethernet adapter but then I have to hack my case.  I wish XG supported USB 3.0 Ethernet adapters, that would make life so much easier!  In any case, I ran into the same ISO disk warning when trying to install XG on the ZBox.  To get around that I just re-flashed my install media in DD mode (Rufus told me the ISO was in dual format and I could pick the default or DD mode).  Default mode is what gave me the ISO disk warning, when I re-flashed my USB disk in DD mode, it worked perfectly.  

    One note to be nit-picky, the web interface for the XG feels much more sluggish when loading the dashboard page and status graph pages where its generating dynamic graphs.  The other pages load fairly well, but if you are used to the hardware appliance or virtualization the XG, you will notice a slow down when going to the ZBox.  

  • 0 in reply to JoeChurch

    The CI323 was officialy added with the MR3.

    For the NW-Ports. I use VLAN's for this case. It works as it should. Only requirement is a VLAN capable switch on the receiving end (this should be no problem today) and a bit of understanding of how to configure VLAN's. It is quite to do this and you won't need additional NW-Ports.

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  • 0 in reply to JoeChurch

    The CI323 was officialy added with the MR3.

    For the NW-Ports. I use VLAN's for this case. It works as it should. Only requirement is a VLAN capable switch on the receiving end (this should be no problem today) and a bit of understanding of how to configure VLAN's. It is quite to do this and you won't need additional NW-Ports.

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