 Tell me your phone systems, and this is an untangle z4w Appliance and I've already got the back off of course because I want to show you what's inside and I'll get a couple things out of the way Yes, this is a wireless appliance. Yes, this runs untangle and it runs it very well. It's a hundred percent compatible But no, this is not your highest performance system. No, this is not your best Wi-Fi setup at all I have this because it helps answer a question that a lot of people have of I'm looking for something that is an Affordable appliance that has the Wi-Fi built in it runs something that can do web filtering and content filtering and the features that you get with application control with untangle But it's not complicated to set up in terms of you know, I love building the whole rack I have back there and setting up and I've done plenty of videos on other wireless devices But yeah, there's a lot more complexity to all if you're looking for something to drop off at a friend's house That is simple or maybe a family member that just needs basic Wi-Fi Let's say in a small area such as an apartment a couple rooms. This actually works pretty good It is only 2.4 gigahertz and it does not handle with all the features turned on more than about 500 megs of traffic It'll route at line speed But once you start doing application control and all the fun things that you may want to do with untangle Yes, it will slow down So I want to get those out of the way and the final thing I'll get out of the way is yes For the button mashers that have already probably added this comment It's probably based on a quote on if you're not familiar with Qo to M There are hardware devices like this. They build basically passively cooled routing equipment Well, they build many computers, but a lot of it's popular for routing I don't have a cross reference to which one this is this was bought directly from untangle and of course as full disclosure Yes, I'm an untangle reseller, but I actually did buy this. This is not something that was given to me This is actually on its way to a client that needs internet connection and an RV And this is 2.4 is plenty enough to get their devices in RV. Their important stuff is gonna be hard lined in I'm gonna jump in the details here in a second, but let's first If you'd like to learn more about me or my company head over to Lawrence systems comm if you'd like to hire short project There's a hires button right at the top if you'd like to help keep this channel Sponsor free and thank you to everyone who already has there is a join button here for YouTube and a patreon page Your support is greatly appreciated If you're looking for deals or discounts on products and services we offer on this channel Check out the affiliate links down below. They're in the description of all of our videos Including a link to our shirt store We have a wide variety of shirts that we sell and new designs come out. Well randomly So check back frequently and finally our forums forums dot Lawrence systems comm is where you can have a more in-depth Discussion about this video and other tech topics. You've seen on this channel now back to our content and we'll start right here on the NG firewall appliances page. So there's these series appliances So they have the z4 which is great and most of the time we're not in any business at least Installing these for a Wi-Fi device We'll get something like the z4 appliance and they have the z4 plus the difference being a little bit faster And then they have their higher-end appliances or you can build your own untangles pretty flexible for being a loaded now I am also doing a review soon of the untangle home pro firewall And this is going to be the hardware device I choose to use it on because it kind of feels like a solid home user solution for Like I said at the beginning pretty turnkey and the z4 w appliance They have all the specs right here Some pictures of it 32 megs SATA M SATA in here But yes, it only as I stated 802 11 bg and n but only 2.4 gigahertz. You also don't have any fancy Ways to modify the channels or anything like that. I'll get to the config in a second It's pretty straightforward, but there's not a lot to it in terms of features which for general users probably not a big deal It does have four USB ports just the way these come built It does have a VGA not that you really need to plug anything into it operates headless It is passively cooled fanless desktop firewall throughput of 950 so pretty much Right at line speed provided you don't need all the application filtering and next-gen firewall thoroughput Well, it goes down like they said 500 That's gonna vary with what rules you have applied and things like that So this may rule it out right away for you in terms of if you're looking for something because you have a faster connection in 500 Do you want the full stream to go through? Well, yeah, now this may be a problem But I want to get these out of the way now. Let's take a closer look at the hardware though Now upon initial boot up and set up we set up these LAN 3 LAN 2 LAN 1 and WAN they're labeled kind of small just below as you can see But it is really tiny to read so we like to have nice clear things So when we ship these to clients these are the way the networks will be set up and the way we'll have them labeled I did take the bottom off and you can see the Drive the memory if you wanted to add more memory to it and there is the wireless Which I think is kind of neat is called an Azure wave wireless playing on names there for sure with whoever makes this But the good news is if you wanted to build this yourself You would be able to go and find this device somewhere and put these things in here You know they're compatible with untangle or just by the appliance directly from untangle get the license for the home Proversion and away you go. You have a nice turnkey simple solution the power adapter is external in Kind of like I'm plugging it puts plugged in on the floors. We're gonna plug this in and boot it up Now one thing I like about the way they labeled this is it says right here Warranty void is serial number removed or changed I think that's clever instead of saying warranty void of open which by the way there was nothing that stopped me from opening this it's just four screws in it and You know warranties only void if I remove the serial number, which is just on this little plate That makes sense I like that from the standpoint of It's you know, not really a good idea to say you're going to warrant you void if I open this up I might need to open this up. I might need to add memory to it I don't like companies implying that because well There's a lot of rules here in America protecting that that just because you opened it up You own it you're allowed to open things up, but I don't get too far off topic It does have a vessa mount and feet so in this little bag here that came in the box not much else in the box besides the Instructions which are not really instructions just a piece of paper labeling that what the things are on this We do have the vessa mount which is kind of nice because now I can just take it Bolt this to the wall and it's got the little standoffs that bolt into here And that allows us to you know easily mount it or if it's just gonna set on a shelf somewhere They do put some little rubber feet inside of here And it's not a big deal if you block the bottom because there's no airflow needed as there's no fans It's passively cooled and it's just the giant heat sink that goes all the way across here The processors actually mounted directly to this with some thermal paste I'm not gonna tear it all apart and have to read thermal paste it But taking the bottom off doesn't have to get into any of that But this allows for easy passive cooling and it does run really cool I mean this whole thing is well relatively heavy in a solid heat sink So let's put the screws back in boot it up and kind of give you a quick tour of what it looks like inside All right, so we have the system booted up. It boots up relatively fast. I'd say two to three minutes It's fully operational and up and running. We're running untangle version 16.01. I'll leave a link to the video I did why dive into the untangle software more in depth But what makes this appliance different obviously is having the Wi-Fi on there and let's talk about how you can figure that now out Of the box it built a bridge And what that means is it took interface five which is actually the Wi-Fi and it is connected to the Interface labeled s internal that is the LAN one interface and so let's go ahead and hit the config and there's not too many options here So interface five is the Wi-Fi you can set it to bridge to Internal or external if you want it and bridge most both of those are configured Actually can bridge it to whichever ones you want and what bridging means is it acts like a switch So devices you connect on the Wi-Fi are going to be Talking to the same things that you connect to the LAN It's the same subnet because you have bridged those two devices together to act as one So it doesn't have its own assignment now You can build it out differently and build it out so it has its own IP address So you have everything on the Wi-Fi being on a separate network than the physical layer devices But you know those at least the way that King configured was as bridge you set the SSID You have the options of AP or client whether or not you want it to broadcast the SSID whether or not you want the encryption types of WPA WPA to Or only WPA to pretty simple and password goes here as in anything you type in a password It doesn't show a little asterisk it puts the password So that's what I had the set the Wi-Fi password to now channel It doesn't have any auto channel options. You choose the channel you want on here It's pretty straightforward for setup and it came like this pretty much out of the box when you run through the wizard and set it up It detects that it's a z4w appliance and built these settings in there So wasn't too much to configure now. How far does the Wi-Fi reach? I didn't do any in-depth testing I wandered around the office and You know, this is actually not that I was surprised I got it all the way at the very back of my building which goes through numerous walls and not a great signal But 2.4 carries through pretty well. I don't know if there's enough interest in me doing a Comparison to other devices, but it's not going to perform as well I can already tell you that these are just well not really high gain But they they're better than nothing so it's going to be at least decent and as I said at the beginning This is probably a good turnkey solution for someone with a small like maybe couple bedroom house apartment and It's an easy solution for Turnkey I need all the filtering features of untangle I need the device is connected and my recommendation is always if you have things like a gaming computer or things that speed matter Not just you know browsing it on a phone or browsing the web on a laptop or you're just going to watch a few videos Hardline that that is always the best way to mitigate all the interference any latency or any issues that come up with Wi-Fi Anything that you need the most speed for plug it into a hard line and maybe get a small switch if you need that or you can bridge the Ports together, so we have the LAN one two and three that I'm not using I could just bridge those together And then it gives me a couple things if I had a few devices So I think this is a good turnkey easy solution and yes You could probably find the hardware yourself if you wanted to hunt that down or you can just buy it as I said right from untangle you hit their website they have the price listed on there and It's kind of an easy turnkey solution And this is going to be a turnkey solution for the client that we're doing this for it who's going to be traveling in an RV and It'll definitely reach around the RV perfectly fine and they don't have that fast of internet So the 500 mega limit for filtered internet not gonna be a problem for them. 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