PFsense mini computer and battery/powerbank questions.
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@logart said in PFsense mini computer and battery/powerbank questions.:
Edit: Also the pi can run windows enterprise or just windows IoT?
https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-enterprise-will-finally-support-arm-with-the-snapdragon-8cx/
Said to be "slow as hell" but could use only one CPU core (on RPi 3).I'd get fired if I ran my main routers/firewalls on Windows OS.
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@jahonix Yep, but how i can run apple OS? I have no choice.
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@logart said in PFsense mini computer and battery/powerbank questions.:
@jahonix Yep, but how i can run apple OS? I have no choice.
Buy a Mac?
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lol no i stick with windows. The internet and devices in my home will be more secure with the VPN provided by speedify anyways. The risk is low. The the device i want to buy, will not be used for anything else. No malware, VPN acts as a DDOS control. So i still think my risk is very limited with windows.
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There is a lot of misinformation about VPNs. Personally I don't think they do either of those things.
Once, many years ago I ran Windows as a router. Never again!
They have Linux code since they have an Android client. It would be much better to run the client on, say, OpenWRT but that's probably not going to happen.
Or host your own bonding server and use OpenMPTCProuter.
Steve
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@logart said in PFsense mini computer and battery/powerbank questions.:
lol no i stick with windows. The internet and devices in my home will be more secure with the VPN provided by speedify anyways. The risk is low. The the device i want to buy, will not be used for anything else. No malware, VPN acts as a DDOS control. So i still think my risk is very limited with windows.
If i scan the network nothing will prevent me to find your real ip, take advantage of every single hole in windows OS, put inside your lan every malware i can think of or some ransomware. VPN will protect you only from some lame player of some stupid game that want to ddos you. Can't you really think of anything better than a windows router?
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And what you would achieve by that, infecting a windows computer that has only 2 softwares running on it? When all my other computers are mac and linux in my home. If that happens i will just delete the Windows partition AND reinstall Windows and start again
.Well anyways.. i have no other option And spending all that money for a mac laptop is not a option.
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@logart said in PFsense mini computer and battery/powerbank questions.:
The internet and devices in my home will be more secure with the VPN provided by speedify anyways.
I doubt that "the internet" will be more secure and I cannot see how a VPN protects your devices at home.
@logart said in PFsense mini computer and battery/powerbank questions.:
all my other computers are mac and linux
So you want to put the weakest device at the front gate?
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well for example i can stole your data, sniff your traffic before it go inside the vpn, use it to load botnet, or only for the sake of it, wan is full of idiots with a lot of time to waste. Just for example one of my clients found the police out of the door, one day, because someone used his server to commit scams on ebay, before asking help to us. The guy before us had put Windows Server 2003 sbe just after the modem without any firewall.
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Yeah. There are many things that someone with access to that box could do and you don't want any of them!
I assume speedify give you a private IP when you connect to them so at least you are not directly accessible that way. If it's behind other routers on the WAN connections it may not have a public IP at all which at least reduces the risk. But...
