VNOPN Micro Firewall Appliance 4 Intel 2.5GbE NIC Ports Fanless Mini PC, Network Soft Router Mini Computer Intel N3700 Quad Core, Support AES NI, 4GB DDR3, 64GB mSATA SSD

Now i'm not expert by any means but this little puppy has taken everything i've given it plus the kitchen sink! I threw pFsense in it, upgraded the RAM with some stick I had laying around, and boom it was off. Whether it's running Wireguard as a client or server, VLAN, Network Monitoring, Ad Blocking or Packet inspection thing thing will handle it. Now I haven't pushed it to the limits but we are getting close, but heat is the main combatant here. I may not have the best set up to help with it and maybe further test still needs to be done. I threw a good amount at it tonight with running Wireguard client as a gateway to one of my VLAN, while also doing some light streaming, I ran some speed test on a couple of devices, on different networks, at the same time. The speeds were still great depending on gateway but i noticed that I was pegging the CPU, used about 75 percent of the RAM, and temps started to creep close to 80 degree celsius. Now like I said this is a lot for this little machine to do and it still exceeded my expectations. I gave it a four because of the heat issue. This could also be caused by me, but I haven't seen a way to modify it to allow a small fan or another way to help cool. I also could clean up the closet I have everything in and hopefully help the over all temps of all devices. If you have any ideas send them my way!Great Product 3 out of 5 stars wouldn't change a thing. You get it.

Nov 2022 - this unit has been running nonstop for months. I am very happy with the unit.UPDATED - The second unit came in and works much better and as i would expect. I need to first modify the bios and do the install again [on this new unit], and compare it to the legacy mode install i had to do on the first defective unit... more to comeORIGNIAL POST - The unit powered on great and went into windows. I made the one change to prepare for install, in BIOS, that others left comments saying they did, and now i cant back into the BIOS. Power button and reset work, makes the green light goes off and on, BUT no red light activity, aka disk access to boot from OS.The only way to get back into windows is to remove power cord and wait few min.My other concern is the vnopn website is not accessible and i cant find any info on updating the BIOS or any other tech info other than submitting via amazon customer feedback which is concerning. Waiting for new unit now - so much for using the long weekend to install and test pfsense, which is very disappointing

It came with an un-licensed pre-install of Windows 10. I don't know why... If I was looking for a Win 10 computer this wouldn't be my choice. BUT, it is great for the purpose for which I bought it. Once you figure out it's boot override and get it to boot to the USB, you can install PFSense and it works great, much faster than the boxes Netgate sells.

I bought this device to use as a firewall/vpn to my HOA’s utility closet security camera network.I got a deal on a used one (I often buy refurbished or open-box tech). When it arrived it had ChromeOS installed but would randomly shutdown about once an hour.I installed opnsense with Tailscale and it worked great for a few weeks before ultimately just not booting up at all. The lights come on but there’s no “beep”, no vga/hdmi output. I tried swapping the RAM and resetting the CMOS but no improvement. Too bad because it was a great price and performance.

This is the second unit that was shipped that has a loose screw rattling around inside. Very poor quality control. Update 12/5 the 3rd unit arrived with no loose screw inside and seems to work fine so far