Hardware Limitations In Home version

C'mon mate, lets imagine that sophos has to pay salaries, developing new solutions, ideas maintain current activities, infrastructure etc etc. We can be glad that sophos is allowing us a home users to using their product just for free with all features. Beside that, for home usage 4 cores and 6 gb is a overkill. With all features on you can gain 1GB/s. look how Fortigate(and other solutions) are expensive, what the are offering etc. With sophos you've got it for free with great community :) appreciate it ^^ and if you wanna use it for commercial just support it - buying it ;)

I understand this logic, but there is no reason to limit hardware if it is proven that the UTM is in a home location.  There are tons of other UTM packages out there that don't have hardware limitations.  I don't mind paying the annual license, but to pay the annual license with a hardware restriction is weak.  I guess I'll just stay on PFsense until they finally decide to remove the limitations.  Thanks

If and when I can get Vodafone Gigafast etc.  I'm mulling a £500 budget for a device, I spent £300 on a UDM-Pro before selling it a month later.  They're now going for crazy money for what is such a flawed edge device.

Tempted to sell the Pondesk unit I bought and get the i3 back into service.  The SFF PC with 4 port Intel NIC is just sat in the spares pile at the moment.  Not sure the total power consumption of the unit.

This is a comparison between the two units I have atm re CPU - http://cpuspecs.com/E3845-vs-i3-6100T

Look at a Dell OptiPlex 3070 with i3-9100 - that's currently less than £500 with more than enough SSD storage, 8GB RAM.

Install a PCIe network card, and you'll have the ultimate machine, that's reasonable on power, and also enough throughput.

Shame the SFF offering from Dell doesn't have the ability to install a SFF PCI-E NIC.

The Intel I3-9100T has a lower TDP rating too.  Will look into options further etc.

I thought the SFF does - or do you mean the Micro - as I presume the later and yes would be nice if that had a PCI-e slot on it - would be perfect...

In that speedtest are you using the IPS and Advanced protection? or just a bare fw rule?

Because I can max out a 3.6 GHZ processor with 3 cores 6 threads (virtualize) with IPS amd advanced protection at arround 400Mbps upload is much worse.

rfcat_vk Your sophos central account is bussiness or personal? what advanges do you have linking you fw to sophos central?

I have IPS and ATP enabled and can get that level of performance, it will depend on your underlaying architecture - the E5-2697v4 CPUs are fairly powerful.

2x cores of the E5-2697v4 gives the same level of performance as a i5-4400 (Going by CPU benchmark results)

BLS said:

I thought the SFF does - or do you mean the Micro - as I presume the later and yes would be nice if that had a PCI-e slot on it - would be perfect...

 

Sorry, yes I was referring to the Micro.

Currently on a 70/20 Vodafone ADSL connection, just wanting Vodafone to pull their finger out for rolling out Gigafast more.  

How many virtual cores are you assigning to Sophos xg?

Are you using esxi?

I have a 2400G my single core performance is much better than yours

Using ESXi - was 6.5 and now 6.7 - 3 months time will be 7.0 - The VM has been assigned as 1 CPU with 2 core per socket - found the performance better that way.

So you're on AMD - hmm, I've seen strange things with AMD in the past under virtualisation - where the CPU seems to bog down and not give the full performance when shared between several VMs - so much so that I stick with Intel for any hardware replacement programs, just because I know it will work and work well..

Hi,

it is personal, the history is kept for 7 days.

I setup the account during beta testing and it is still operational.

What advantages, for me none really, but I can comment on it in the forums when things are not correct or someone asks for advice.

CM does offer a couple reports the the native XG does not eg bandwidth usage.

Ian

You do get remote access to your XG without the exposing your external access, not that I need that anymore.

Ian

Hi,

it is personal, the history is kept for 7 days.

I setup the account during beta testing and it is still operational.

What advantages, for me none really, but I can comment on it in the forums when things are not correct or someone asks for advice.

CM does offer a couple reports the the native XG does not eg bandwidth usage.

Ian

You do get remote access to your XG without the exposing your external access, not that I need that anymore.

Ian