SG-1000 microFirewall Optical Illusion
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Wow. Over 100 Mbps throughput. Released just in time to be obsoleted by the average cable internet bandwidth offering.
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Looks interesting. The inclusion of a Gold Subscription is nice.
I would expect a bit more bandwidth. My Asus RT-N66U with a 600Mhz MIPS can push over 200Mbit as a router, though it is running Linux.
With things like the ER-X for ~$50, I dunno if I can justify this SG-1000. I am glad to see new offerings though.
The optical illusion definitely caused me some confusion… :)
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This may be an excellent box to run Asterisk on.
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I think they should start an Evangelist program where they give free units to any forum member with more than +4000 posts and +468 karma…
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@KOM:
I think they should start an Evangelist program where they give free units to any forum member with more than +4000 posts and +468 karma…
;)
In all seriousness though, I have messaged pfSense employees saying that exact thing. Encouraging forum members to participate by creating educational threads focused on current hardware/features would be great.
Very often, people mention the community around a project being a major influence when deciding what product to use.
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I think this is an excellent option; something I've long awaited. I'd not hesitate to deploy this at our small branch offices; most have 10 or so users and a 20Mbps tops WAN connection.. Even the SG-2220 is overkill for that. I'd rather buy two of these for the same price and have a failover pair.
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Wow. Over 100 Mbps throughput. Released just in time to be obsoleted by the average cable internet bandwidth offering.
There are plans to improve the bandwidth, but current technical limitations have to be overcome. Gigabit nics are on there for a reason.
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@KOM:
I think they should start an Evangelist program where they give free units to any forum member with more than +4000 posts and +468 karma…
;)
In all seriousness though, I have messaged pfSense employees saying that exact thing. Encouraging forum members to participate by creating educational threads focused on current hardware/features would be great.
Very often, people mention the community around a project being a major influence when deciding what product to use.
I agree, we could experiment with some neat things like that.
FWIW, I started toying around with the idea of recognizing pfSense Gold members in their forum bio again. Hopefully I can make some headway on that.
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I like it, I wonder how it will compare to the upcoming Minnow Board.
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@KOM:
I think they should start an Evangelist program where they give free units to any forum member with more than +4000 posts and +468 karma…
Here. Let me fix that for you…
... and 0 smite.
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This thing looks awesome.
I have a Supermicro A1SRi-2558F in an Akasa fanless case. 8GB RAM and an SSD. I use the device as the router for our FiOS 150/150 at our house. There are 6 of us and a lot of devices. I run Squid / SquidGuard to keep track of the kids and run OpenVPN so I can easily connect from work.
I know my current system is probably overkill but would the microfirewall be too under-powered? It would be neat to sell my system and replace it with this super low power device that still runs pfSense.
Chad
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With things like the ER-X for ~$50, I dunno if I can justify this SG-1000. I am glad to see new offerings though.
The Edge router line is very interesting and may meet the needs of some folks but the gui is sadly lacking and trying to use the command line is very frustrating when you only do it a couple times a year. Wife took one look at it and said "nope" keep looking, not because she couldn't deal with it but because she is retired and doesn't want to have to.
I feel I gave my Edge Routera reasonable effort hoping to have a cheap, low power and fast replacement for my SmoothWall on an old Dell GX-110 SFF box but the amount of effort required when changes needed made was just too high. I initially moved to pfSense on my old Dell, replaced the Dell with an HP 7900 SFF and now have an SG-2440 that met all my requirements but cheap. On the other hand it is dead simple to use and the wife feels she could keep it working as easily as a consumer grade router if I keel over.
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This thing looks awesome.
I have a Supermicro A1SRi-2558F in an Akasa fanless case. 8GB RAM and an SSD. I use the device as the router for our FiOS 150/150 at our house. There are 6 of us and a lot of devices. I run Squid / SquidGuard to keep track of the kids and run OpenVPN so I can easily connect from work.
I know my current system is probably overkill but would the microfirewall be too under-powered? It would be neat to sell my system and replace it with this super low power device that still runs pfSense.
Chad
Maybe the 512MB of RAM would be a limitation and perhaps the 150Mbps+ statement might put it at the top of its capabilities with your FiOS. If I still had my 50x5 cable connection I'd be all over it though.
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What's USB OTG for?
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I wonder what the J8 header is for…Maybe some gpio pins.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=USB+OTG&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
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https://www.google.com/search?q=USB+OTG&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
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Thanks for posting the link because I don't know how to use Google.
Now, all the sarcasm aside, I guess the original question was, How is a USB OTG port on something that's essentially a mini computer different from a traditional USB port that has been a fixture on computers for over a decade now? What USB device can I connect to this USB OTG port that I cannot connect to a USB port not labeled OTG on any other computer?
OTG could mean this device can be powered via the USB port. Can it?
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most arm devices are usb-slave only (like you cell phone). usb-otg means they can be both slave or master / your average pc can not be a slave, it is always a master ( the terminology is probably wrong, but thats how i perceive the whole OTG thing)