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      joshhboss
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      So we just took over a new property and they have a pretty big Unifi Network. But they had a USG4 and I absolutely hate USGs. They have about 12 switches and 200 aps. Averaging around 500 clients at a time. Not to big not to small. I wanted to put a solid Pfsense box and I bought this from Amazon . A AWOW.

      Mini PC Intel Celeron J3455 6GB DDR4, 128 GB SATA SSD, Mini Desktop Computer with Windows 10 Pro, Quad Core, Dual Gigabit Ethernet NIC, Dual HDMI, 5X USB3.0, 4K UHD, Bluetooth, AWOW AK34 Micro PC.

      Flashed it and installed the latest pfsense community edition: and initially it ran great. Gave out DHCP to all the clients and worked so well. I was happy!!

      BUT… lol just from running normal Speedtest. (They have a Gig up and down circuit from ATT. The router would crash every time. I mean every time for about 2 minutes and sometimes just wouldn’t come back at all.. if I bought to weak a box I understand (hurts but I understand. It was $200US) anyone care to help me understand what might of went wrong or how to find out. And if anyone could share from past experience maybe using a box like this and what the limits are.

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        @joshhboss said in Trouble finding the right hardware:

        J3455

        That CPU is nothing special but I would expect it to pass at least close to 1G in a test. It may well struggle with thousands of connections and small packet sizes.
        It shouldn't crash though. Do you get a crash report? If you're connected to the console when you test do you see a kernel panic?

        Steve

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          joshhboss @stephenw10
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          @stephenw10 The next time I go out there ill plug in a monitor and test. Is there something, Would there be something in the logs. I have access to it via wireguard right now.

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            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            There might be if it has some issue. Check the logs for anything that looks out of place.

            Enable Coretemp temperature monitoring if you have not already and make sure it's not running ludicrously hot. It will also log temps in Status > Monitoring.

            The fact it isn't showing you a crash report after it reboots starts to point to a hardware issue.

            Steve

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