@stephenw10: great, thanks for your informative answer. My OCD can rest now ;)

Got it.  Good info to have.  I was unaware on several of these items.  Thank you!

Still very valuable, even more so when it comes to schools!

I gave it some airflow assistance with a 4-inch USB fan, and it has been stable now since yesterday. Heat dissipation could indeed be an issue with these units.

It will never have the same performance as SSD. It is a USB device, not SATA.

Very encouraging to hear that.  Thanks for the information!

Open a support ticket at customercare.netgate.com?

@p2ranger: Thanks for the replies I apologize for not citing needs for future LAN ports. For now we don't need it, but I'm not quite sure what future need that might arise that would require us to need an additional port. As far as I can tell, the switch is where we have the need for ports at this time. I'm still learning my way around networking. Could you give me some examples of what an additional LAN port at the router level would be used for? Thanks Jason Sure! With more networking ports you can have two internet connections in multi-wan scenario. So when ISP1 breaks, pfSense automatically switches to ISP2. You can also use a free port to create a separate network for your wifi users. Just an example. Please let me know if you have more questions!

Thank you for that. The wiki page had some holes in terms of explaining the steps but a google search on the correct terms filled in all the blanks.  Shame you need to have a login to update the wiki, prevents people from making quick suggested edits. Using screen as a serial terminal is amazing on OSX.

I am still working on this.  At this time I am not completely sure what is going on.  I am going to be setting this firewall up in my lab and run some tests.

I have a run(4) device that works just fine as an access point but I've never been able to make it work usefully as a client. Try configuring them both as APs and see if they work fine like that. If not there might be a power issue though I wouldn't expect it. Steve

Thanks much, jimp!

@magrw2066: Hello, I have a sg4860 and I have not been able to bring up webconfigurator. I get to the sg4860 console via 'screen' command from intel nuc/linux. (Does ANY UBUNTU/FEDORA carry minicom/cu/screen WITHOUT apt?) My ISP is ATT but their box mostly supplies WIFI. I have a direct line from att opt port to  the SG4860's wan. BUT the shell shell from sg4860 console says: netstat -rn -4 dest                    gateway 127.0.0.1            link#10          UH    lo0 192.168.1.0/24    link #2          U      igb1 192.168.1.1        link#1            UHS  lo0 192.168.1.240      link#2            UHS  lo0 192.168.1.254      0:8:a2y:z  UHS  igb1 I cannot bring up webconfigurator or ping 192.168.1.254. Note : wan is reported at console as igb1 and lan is reported as igb0 Security: an old zyxel based wifi usb dongle seems to cause crashes of pfsense. you have 192.168.1.0/24 network on WAN so you can not use 192.168.1.0/24 on lan. go command line, change lan network to 192.168.0.0/24 (192.168.0.1 addres on lan interface) apply config. now you will able reach from lan via https://192.168.0.1

I don't know your router model but I'm guessing our SG-4860 won't be bottleneck in your setup :) If your Asus router is too slow you can always install IPsec or OpenVPN clients directly on remote user's devices.

I too was having that problem until I finally figured out to make damn sure that I reboot the unit first and apply the upgrades immediately after completing the reboot.

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Thanks for the replies guys… I think I'll go for the sg-2220 and a managed switch. Do you recommend getting additional storage?... It's 50$ for 60GB.