Protectli Vault FW2-2 Port, Firewall Micro Appliance/Mini PC - Intel Dual Core, 2GB RAM, 16GB mSATA SSD - Compatible with OPNsense, pfSense etc.

So far so good. I've had this running for about a month now, and have been very happy with the feature set, and ease of use. I had no experience with pfSense before I bought this, and was pleasantly surprised with how easy it was to set up. It was basically plug and play. I bought a 64gb SSD, and threw a 4GB stick of RAM that I had lying around in it. So far I have had absolutely no issues with it. It's been a fun device to play with, and I've been pretty impressed with the performance. I haven't had any issues as far as throughput, as far as I can tell. I am on a 100Mbps connection, and there haven't been any slowdowns that I've noticed. The CPU idles pretty low, maybe around 5% utilization during normal usage. I've set up openVPN on it, and even when i'm VPN'd into it, the CPU only goes up to about 20% utilization. The temps seem to happily stay around 40 degC, I haven't seen it change much from that, even when i had the VPN going, and the CPU usage went up.Overall I'm extremely happy with this little guy.

I was somewhat wary of the product based on some of the negative reviews. They seemed to suggest build quality problems; but now that I have this thing, I can't help but wonder if that's just the usual components failing after initial testing that you see with all sorts of computer products.Aside from 72 hour burn in testing, you often can't actually tell if the system works or not -- and based on what I've seen so far, the build quality feels really quite high.It's just an absolutely fantastic little computer. I didn't go the pfsense route, I went with a loonix routing environment, but the principle is the same. It couldn't be easier to work with. The BIOS seems to support anything you could ever want to do with the thing. (Hint: it has _options_ for how to handle console redirection to the serial port, which is an RJ45 port that comes with a RJ45->DB9 blue ribbon cable like you'd get with an enterprise switch.)I hope I don't ever have to alter this review. For now at least, I would definitely recommend one of these little guys.

It worked fine for 3 weeks and then died. Failed to boot at all and had to be replaced. I upgraded to the 4 port version with more RAM. Hopefully that hardware is more reliable.

I purchased this to replace my aging Belkin router, and decided that I wanted to go the homebrew route. I ended up pairing it with a 120GB mSATA and 4 GB of RAM since I was going to need two VMs to make my setup work. I'm using Citrix XenServer as a hypervisor since there is a nifty Windows Management console to manage the VMs on my Desktop called XenCenter (combined with Putty, updating/upgrading Ubuntu is a sinch, and pfSense is easy enough using web broweser). One VM is pfSense and the other is Ubuntu, each with 1 GB RAM. I also sprung for an Enterprise level AP by Ubiquiti. You'll want at least a 5 port dumb network switch, too. I needed Ubuntu to run the Ubiquiti management software. Trying to install and run Unifi on pfSense is a pain... From an updating/maintenance stand point, it's easier just to run a second VM for Unifi with this setup.After loading Xen and getting the network config done, XenCenter did all the heavy lifting creating the VMs (creating them with command line is tough...). I did have a few issues getting the VMs to play nice with Xen, but that was due to user error.. and unrelated to the hardware entirely.I have Spectrum now and with this setup, I get 120 Mbps down and 12 up all day on 5Ghz band.. The hardware itself hasn't shown anything negative at all. Thanks to the Unifi AP/pfSense combo, WiFi is buttery smooth for every single device I can throw at it. Roughly two dozen concurrent devices show no issues whatsoever and it's been about two months now, and it stays powered on for weeks at a time. Power draw is super low, too. It stays below 15W or so regardless of load. It has a tiny footprint as well. It takes up a tiny amount of desk real estate; it's like 6" x 6"UPDATE 12/18/2017 ** This processor does not support AES-NI... Just learned of this and wish I would have discovered this sooner because pfSense 2.5 and beyond will require the processor to support AES-NI. The J1800 does not support this instruction set.

A Great DIY pfSense firewall box so far! Took a chance on this little guy with no reviews based on the excellent specs and pricing. At the time, I was not aware of their fully configured model, with SSD and RAM for about $40 more, so I matched it with a 4GB Ram module and 32GB MSata SSD, for which I paid around $50 extra.. Opened it up, installed the RAM and the SSD, closed it up and then installed pfSense from USB thumbdrive. Install went flawlessly, and restored my configuration settings from my previous pfSense box (retired because it only had dual 100 mbit lans and Verizon was updating my FIOS to 150 mbps up & down, so I needed this guy's dual gbit lans), and all just worked flawlessly.You may save $10 and 10-15 minutes if you get their preconfigured model with SSD and RAM. During the 155 Mbps speedtest, it averages about 15-17% cpu usage. I also run openvpn on it, but haven't yet tested or benchmarked the thoughput or cpu usage. This unit as a dual core Celeron J1800 Bay Trail @ 2.4GHz. For presumably better VPN throughput, or more complicated routing than the standard WAN/LAN, they do make a 4 port model with a beefier quad core Celeron @ 2.0Ghz, but I have no experience with that model.Overall, quite satisfied with how this handlet my 150/150 Mbps FIOS home connection.