Mierwins, that would eliminate most of the very-small-businesses as customers and prospects. For many larger businesses, this would allow them to equip smaller offices for $99 forever.
I just can't see Astaro giving up that recurring income to allow a few home users to push the technology envelope... I certainly HOPE they don't, for our sake!
A different solution is needed.
Cheers - Bob
and while you are at it also enable possibility to have a couple of vlans
then i´d have a go with astaro again.
EDIT1: noticed this when login into myastaro
Concurrent Connections: 1000
so basicly you cant run torrents with astaro.. i really think it´s time to look over the "home user license"
or maby they just dont want us, but then who will do the testing for them?
/F
Owner: Emmanuel Technology Consulting
Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner
PfSense w/Suricata, ntopng,
Other addons to follow
The number of IP addresses behind a home router is simply not a valid measure of home use any longer. Astaro will hopefully come up with something different.
1 Satellite TV Receiver
3 Nintendo DS Lite
1 Playstation
1 iPod Touch
3 Macs
1 PC
1 laptop
Email reminder daily that I'm at 11.
Occasional guests = overage
And the girls aren't even teens yet. I can see adding smart digital photo frames, NAS, maybe a home server and who knows what else in the future.
Owner: Emmanuel Technology Consulting
Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner
PfSense w/Suricata, ntopng,
Other addons to follow
Mierwins, that would eliminate most of the very-small-businesses as customers and prospects. For many larger businesses, this would allow them to equip smaller offices for $99 forever.
I have been working on an account for a year where we have an ASG120 in their main office and will be installing ASG110s in 20+ remote offices. There is no way I would have invested the time I have if I weren't expecting to generate thousands of dollars in income. Your suggestion would allow the customer to use some old PCs with $99 licenses for their needs, and I would be left with no compensation for my efforts.
I just can't see Astaro giving up that recurring income to allow a few home users to push the technology envelope... I certainly HOPE they don't, for our sake!
A different solution is needed.
Cheers - Bob
Owner: Emmanuel Technology Consulting
Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner
PfSense w/Suricata, ntopng,
Other addons to follow
I've got what I consider to be a pretty typical 'geek' set up:
2 IP printers
3 desktops
2 laptops
1 server
1 media center
2 Tivo's
1 DVR
1 iPhone
2 AP's
This has me way over the 10 IP limit. I've been playing with Untangle to see how workable a solution that would be, and frankly it's a dog compared to ASG. Untangle on Ubuntu takes about as much work to set up as configuring the individual open source tools themselves on a standard distro.
While Astaro is more mature and easier to configure, I just have too many IP's at home and can't see the number getting any smaller....
Owner: Emmanuel Technology Consulting
Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner
PfSense w/Suricata, ntopng,
Other addons to follow
first off don't have astaro do dhcp. Secondly anything that doesn't need the inet i don't put in a gateway(aka like my wireless printers..they really don't need the inet) among other things. If you REALLY can't live within the 10 ip bounds there's other products up there..
Owner: Emmanuel Technology Consulting
Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner
PfSense w/Suricata, ntopng,
Other addons to follow
don't have the astaro do dhcp and for the printers and ap's take out the gateway addresses..that'll net you 4 more ip's..[:)]