Micro Firewall Appliance, N100 Firewall Router PC Upgraded Version Fanless Mini PC 4x i226-V 2.6G Solid Computer

Chose the barebones version and added an M2 NVME card and 16Gb RAM. First thing I noticed is this is packaged well and when I opened the unit to insert the above cards I found the construction feels solid. I looked on my Amazon but there is no documents or support for this device. So far, I haven't needed any as I worked out how to configure the bios to boot a OPNSense usb stick I made from my Linux box. Although there are couple of blanked-off holes labelled with Wifi symbols, there is in fact no wireless hardware included. I now have OPNSense installed and now currently testing the device for speed and stability. I've also 3D designed a mount so I can attach this unit to a monitor. With the fanless design the It does run warm to the touch and I'll see how that goes in the UK Summer.

Really satisfied with this, I have it running Proxmox, with PFSense using PCIe passthrough, a small K3S control plane, DNS server and it handles it perfectly. 32GB of RAM works perfectly too. The only thing is that it can get quite warm, it's living in a cold room but I would worry if it was in a 20c living space with temps. Power draw is just 10w without any tuning.

Worked well for a about two weeks and then it started to randomly crash. I tried everything from under-volt the GPU and GPU, and even actively cooling the unit. Nothing worked. There were no sync logs and the machine would just freeze. Could be a faulty power supply but I will never know.

Shipping was pretty quick. What you get is pretty sparse, just the unit and power supply (well packaged), and nothing else. This is a nicely made device, and gthe migration I performed from my older system running pfSense to the new box was seamless, requiring a manual edit the Interface and VLAN names directly in the backup XNL files ( and ensuring the pfSense versions between the boxes were in sync ). Power consumption, for me at least, is now between 10-20W presently, which is excellent, representing a 5x saving over the previous box. The only issue I can see is that the machine reports a temperature >40ºC, but research tells me this isn't too unusual, something to keep an eye on I suppose!

Has been running as an opnsense router since I bought it and it’s been perfect. Very impressed.

I recommend buying the barebones version of this router and then adding RAM & SSD at a much lower cost than buying it built in. I did that and built a router/IPS (running OPNsense) for less than £200 that outperforms branded hardware costing 2-3 times as much.

Added my own memory and ssd. Now running PFSense and controlling my home network. Great value

No issues so far running as an opnsense router, quite warm(hot) to the touch but that's to be expected as the case is one big heatsink :) bought barebones and added 8GB DDR5 B0C79F1T23 and 256GB NVME B07ZH6QR8Q

This product has been working for a few weeks and now it starts rebooting randomly, sometimes 5 times in an hour, sometimes twice a day. PC is not usable anymore with these random reboots. Don't buy this product.