 So we do a lot of PF sense builds and a lot of times for my corporate clients I just buy the PF sense boxes as they come with support and I've really never had a problem with them really solid But a lot of people ask me what else can I use and what can I save a few dollars on? Well, these are pretty cool. These are the protect Lee. I think that's how you say protect Li Model FW 1048 you can buy them on Amazon here And they're not generally expensive Now this is the firewall micro appliance with gigabit LAN ports now the specs on this are pretty good It is a quad-core bay trail processor a gig emsata four gigs of DDR3 RAM and four gigabit ethernet ports Now as you can see these boxes are passively cooled and I'll take it apart and show you kind of the innards of it But it's pretty neat. There's no fans complete silent operation You get in the box the unit power supply power cord mounting plate so you can bolt it to a wall This is actually really nice Now the unit itself all metal all steel all the way around even the bottom. This isn't plastic So it's really solid. It's actually a little heavier than I expected The gigabit LAN ports all looks nice link lights power light hard drive activity. It runs on 12 volts So let's take a look inside I Will note on taking this apart that the screws feel kind of soft and like I was almost going to strip them pulling them out They did show a little signs and one of them was a little bit cross-threaded, but overall not bad So as you can see we actually have four gigs standard DDR3 We have a solid state emsata drive eight gigs That's what this one came with shipped for 279 now kind of a bonus. You get a secondary emsata on this So if you had another emsata drive you want to add to this you could actually put two drives in this pretty cool Then we have our two USBs power Solid design just everything's metal even these little side pieces Literally the only plastic thing in here was the power supply everything else is completely metal And it just feels really well made it feels well machined the edges aren't Rough or anything. I'm not going to cut myself on them. So they did a good job. It feels pretty quality here All right, let's let's put this back together and dig into the performance. Oh And as you can see inside of here you are looking at the CPU and they mark they glued these Screw holes so you can't take them out easily And so they probably won't back out from vibration But the seat heat sink has and I can see some Looks like some paste between there or a heat sink pad So the heat passively goes to the top of this, you know It is a fanless design and it looks like it dissipates the heat really well So let's give it a try so out of the box these come installed with PF sense when you ordered them from Amazon at the link I have below and I Think that's nice of them. I don't trust third parties to load it So I went ahead and downloaded again and reloaded PF sense on their latest version Which was September 27 2016 it's latest as of December 2nd 2016 here Now I did some load testing and of course that's what I'm curious about is can it speed and how much speed can it handle? So let's do a real quick test here And I've actually already done several tests before I started the video Because I wanted to let it run for a while and see if I can't heat it up now The CPU usage you see goes up a little bit and we're getting 816 megs per second not bad So unless you have a internet connection that exceeds, you know gigabit speeds then this is pretty solid as far as Speed goes 819 and you know, this is fully configured Box now heat-wise I've had it running for several hours. I let it run under full load as long as I had patience for which Was another hour or so the highest temperature achieved Was sometimes 48 Mostly it was 47 that's under to constant full load which I've just finished doing so it's still coming back down After this sits for a while and you just leave the box at idle The temperature goes all the way down to about 45 Celsius sometimes all the way down to 42 and then ambient temperature Let me look right now ambient temperature in my office is 73 degrees so Not bad. It's 73. What is that in Fahrenheit? I don't know I'll figure that out later So it's not that hot. It's obviously 46 is pretty cool to the touch as far as like the top of it It's not that hot on top. I don't have a thermal sensor to prove it But you can lay your hand on air and it's really minor So I don't think there's any heat issues with it performance wise it flips fine through all the screens I don't have any issues with it Everything seems to work perfectly fine it reboots really fast that mc to drive definitely is good in this All the options I have configured I haven't tried loading it up with anything like VPN It's not something that's going to even be used on this for the client But I'm sure it'll handle that fine because it's got a nice quad core in it So overall I'm pretty happy with this even though celeron It's quiet of course because it's no fan so it's completely silent. I can't say quiet I gotta say silent my tests show that it doesn't have any problems doing, you know over 800 megs a second So as long as your internet WAN connection is less than 800 megs a second You're should be good to go and the performance is really good on it. So I really haven't had any issues It works well. It's a great little tool and for 279 for all the parts complete It's a pretty solid pf sense build. So that's my review of the firewall micro well appliance by I guess you want to call Them a protect telly on their website. Don't bother under website as of right now They really don't have much more information than what you can find on Amazon, but overall not a bad little product. Thanks If you like the videos like and subscribe appreciate it