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Intel NUC and Sophos XG Home

Bengt Berg

Hi All, 

been looking around for a clear answer here but found none. Sophos XG Home needs two NIC's, which makes sense. BUT... 

1) Can one of them be a wifi nic? 

2) Can the wifi NIC, in that case, act as a WIFI AP? 

3) Would an Intel nuc work here? www.dustinhome.se/.../nuc-kaby-lake-wifi

Reason I ask: my kids have failed miserably to keep their online habits at a reasonable level. Thinking about changing the wifi password for the home wifi router, plugging a wifi AP capable box somewhere and give them access to that... opening video streaming sites for 90 minutes per evening (keeping other stuff accessible the rest of the day).  



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    Hi and welcome,

    the simple answer to both questions is no.

    You can purchase additional covers for the NUC that allow an extra NIC to be installed, search for gorite in the US.

    Limitation, the NUC will only have 2 cpus with hyperthreading, so in the longer term you will be short cores and speed. The NUCs usually have a slower processor where as for home use the recommendation is as much speed as you can get eg fast celeron or atom.

    Try searching for jotac, they also have a range of small low powered multi NIC boxes, make sure you stay away from the i219 chip, not supported by either UTM or XG on current releases.

    Ian

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    Hi and welcome,

    the simple answer to both questions is no.

    You can purchase additional covers for the NUC that allow an extra NIC to be installed, search for gorite in the US.

    Limitation, the NUC will only have 2 cpus with hyperthreading, so in the longer term you will be short cores and speed. The NUCs usually have a slower processor where as for home use the recommendation is as much speed as you can get eg fast celeron or atom.

    Try searching for jotac, they also have a range of small low powered multi NIC boxes, make sure you stay away from the i219 chip, not supported by either UTM or XG on current releases.

    Ian

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