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Buying ASG120 without licence & support

Hi,
Is it possible to buy the ASG120 for home use? I've been quoted a price for the hardware from a reseller and gone ahead and ordered only for Sophos to now refuse to ship the hardware without me buying a license & support which is nearly the same price again! [:@] All i want is a nice low power box that I can put the home license on, is that to much to ask??

Thanks

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0 William Warren over 13 years ago

it should be..let me inquire with my channel rep.

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0 William Warren over 13 years ago

since you have been stymied in this route you can build your own machine and use the home license on that.

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0 William Warren over 13 years ago

once i hear back from my rep i'll let you know what the policy is.

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0 peterkieser over 13 years ago

If you are going to build your own hardware for your home use, I highly recommend the following mainboard:

Super Micro Computer, Inc. - Products | Motherboards | Pineview Boards | X7SPA-H-D525

Nice, compact and good onboard NICs [:)]
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0 Firestorm over 13 years ago

Hi William, PeterKieser
Thanks for the very quick reply’s! Is there any appliance like hardware I can buy that will be similar to the ASG120 or are there any recommended cases for the super micro board?

Thanks again
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0 William Warren over 13 years ago

According to my rep the appliances are not able to be licensed for home use.

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0 William Warren over 13 years ago in reply to Firestorm

Hi William, PeterKieser
Thanks for the very quick reply’s! Is there any appliance like hardware I can buy that will be similar to the ASG120 or are there any recommended cases for the super micro board?

Thanks again

pretty much whatever you want to put that in..[:)]

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0 Firestorm over 13 years ago

Hi William,
Thanks for the update, it’s very frustrating as Sophos originally gave the pricing to our reseller (Astaro Platinum Partner) but didn’t tell them you have to buy a licence! Oh well it looks like I’ll have to build it myself then. The Supermicro board looks good, I’m guessing I just need the following to complete the build:

2 x 2GB Ram
160GB Sata Hard Drive
Mini-ITX case & PSU

Anything else I might need? and will this be ok for a small home network of 1 server & 4 machines, I will mainly be using the email spam & av scanning as well as the Firewall

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0 William Warren over 13 years ago

oh yes that should suffice..[:)]

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0 Simon Shaw over 13 years ago in reply to William Warren

According to my rep the appliances are not able to be licensed for home use.

Why not? They're just doing themselves out of a sale...

One of our staff just got a ASG220 on Ebay... 50GBP You could try that route.
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