Andaqi YC049 4-Port Fanless Firewall Mini PC - Intel Celeron J1900 Quad-Core, 4GB DDR3L RAM, 64GB mSATA SSD, Supports 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD - Ideal for Home Office Network Security, VPN Server & Small Business Firewall Solutions

This device works extremely well with open source firewall/router software. I couldn't be more pleased. Very solid considering the price. The 4 ethernet ports allow lots of options for configuring the network. I had one question on the BIOS configuration and the seller responded almost instantly and I was able to configure it the way I needed. Excellent service.I bought two of these Andaqi YC049 to replace two ageing MIPS based routers and I'm pleased with my purchase. Since I used Debian with isc-dhcp-server, bind9 and quagga on my previous routers, I needed to replicate the configurations on the YC049's. I am sure pFsense is great but I could not afford the time for the learning curve. Therefore I removed the pFsense SSD's and bolted in 1 TB SSHD's to the SATA location and attached the supplied SATA cables. (Eventually I will replace the SSHD's with M2 SSD's.) After creating a bootable Debian stick and adjusting BIOS to boot from the stick, I was able to set up Debian. I then installed packages and configured the routers to match the existing routers which was trouble free. I then substituted the secondary router with one of the YC049's and ran a hybrid routing scheme for 24 hours. Inter router updates worked just fine. After I was confident, I substituted the primary router for the other YC049 and all worked without a hitch.In due course I might investigate using pFsense. These routers run slightly warm but not hot. Delivery time from order might be two to three weeks but having received both YC049's on Monday, I had the secondary YC049 in service by Wednesday midday and the primary YC049 in service by Thursday midday. Operation has been trouble free since then though I have had to adjust non-critical functions (e.g. SNMP, Nagios, Bacula, Temperature collection) to reflect the new hardware.Overall I recommend this product as a very capable edge router.Excellent unit. It even arrives fully loaded with pfSenseIdeal for a small, silent, home router & firewallGood piece of kit, very good value, sturdy box one of the better fabless PCsIch nutze das Gerät als OpnSense Firewall. (OpnSense ist etwas moderner als PfSense)Eine Schraube was locker als ich das Gerät geliefert bekam.Im Chassis ist auch noch Platz für eine weitere 2,5" SSD/HDD -> falls man das Gerät als mini-Server nutzen möchte.Ich hatte einige Probleme bei aufsetzen des Gerätes. Nun läuft es aber ohne Probleme.I use the device as OpnSense firewall. (OpnSense is a bit more modern than PfSense).One screw was loose when I got the device.There is also room for another 2.5" SSD/HDD in the chassis -> if you want to use it as a mini server.I had some problems when setting up the device. But now it runs without problems.