 So today's an exciting day. I got the new PF Sense mini mini device that they have So it's right from netgate right from their website, and this is the unboxing of it So I figured I know you should do unboxing, but I will I got a t-shirt too. So that's included in a box I got stickers which are important other accessories. I ordered excited some PF sense stickers for things Got a receipt from netgate Saying that I have the new What is this sg-1000 micro firewall security appliance? This is a new toy from the guys at PF sense so So we'll leave a sticker right there There we go fuzzy on it Put my shirt on today to do the brist of the video But I wanted to get this tested do some speed tests see how it is huge fan of PF sense the downside about PF sense is Well, I get no downside the hardware is not dirt cheap It's not like buying an expensive firewall, but these are only $150 and they come in this awesome red, which is kind of exciting And a power supply Some feet we can stick on there. What else we have in here more stickers boy. They I didn't order this many stickers Thank you PF sense and thanks for the stickers open some stuff up here. So we got a standard micro USB cable the firewall itself, which kind of reminds me I don't think it's actually built on a rest. It's not actually. I'm sorry. It is not built on a raspberry pi But looks very raspberry pi ish On the end here See if we can close up a little closer. It says council USB OTG power and they have a standard 5 volt DC. They include The adapter itself Wow, it's a 5 volt 3 amp adapter And that's pretty much all that's in the box here. So we got the adapter. We got the device I think you can get them in red or black. They look way cooler in red. This is metal. So that's Making it actually pretty nice. I mean, that's a Pretty cool. So I'm not huge on unboxing at least to show you what comes in the box and unbox it So you guys can see what you get when you get this cool little device But I'm gonna get to what's important to me functionality price and of course speed test and seeing how this compares to some of the other PF sense ones I've tested in the past but or even you know, because this is still more expensive but I've a big fan of ubiquity too and they have dominated the less expensive router and switch space But they don't have as many features of PF sense box PF sense has the full features I actually if I don't know if I'll do it in the first video But I do want to try out the VPN on this because I'm curious just how well it can handle VPN traffic. I mean, it's a hundred fifty It's small. It's tiny. It only has two ports on there, but definitely a cool little device here. So let's get to the testing part now all right, so now it's all plugged in up to date and We can really start digging in and taking a look at it It runs like any other PF sense box. So default IP address is the same 192.168.11 with admin and PF sense being The default password now. We're going to notice right away. It's running the beta arm. That's how they shipped it one It's running arm and it's because the arm development release as of here in January 2016 is still a beta release Because it's a recompile. This is not x86 now It is built on the Cortex 8 processor and let's kind of run down some of the specs right from their website here So this is the 149 for the SG firewall micro firewall as they call it It does seem to be running full PF sense low total cost of ownership no limits add-ons fully functional all the same sales pitch We have with all the other ones The 512 non ECC DDR single core. I don't care much for that It does come with two gigabit Ethernets on there, but that's not overly helpful because the one downside of this It's not capable of routing at full gigabit speed unless I'm missing something here So this is kind of an inside look they have it on here I've got it plugged in right now with the five volt adapter has a little passive heat sink It's been room for the while. It's warm to the touch. It's not hot not like I would worry about it But it is a little warm and it's nice metal box. So I'm not worried about it Melting or anything like that and it's not so hot that it would worry me like I said with only two and a half power watt Consumption idle is pretty Not it doesn't draw a lot of power But one of the things I noticed when going through here is the menus are a little sluggish. It does not Fly through the menus. It's got not bad on some things But well, let's say I'm gonna go and do a diagnostic and let's take a look at the state's table And there's a delay And we're still delaying Let me drag over a screen here. You can see the load average is going up here. This is me SSH din there And it just it's got a little bit of sluggishness, but I guess for a single core Processor it's gonna do that. You're gonna have that kind of a little bit sluggishness Now the other thing I noticed because a lot of people may want this for traffic shaping So I gotta let you know right now that service isn't working on here now I don't know enough specifics about the hardware to see if it can ever be supported on this But when you go to the traffic shaper it right away tells you that the chipset doesn't support it and from what I've read There's not really a true traffic shaping work around it does support queue limiters so that can be configured on here to Set that I believe that's under the firewall settings Nat and you can set up a limit for each ones But it doesn't actually do traffic shaping so you can prioritize for example sip traffic for your phones over Standard traffic that's going on the network So that's kind of a disappointment that doesn't support that because you get that with some of the edge router boxes But you at least are getting a great open source firewall here You're getting all the standard PF sense with all the cool features of PF sense So overall I'm pretty happy about that, but let's get to a speed test I wanted to see just how much can this route and You know, I've already done all the PF sense is not gonna run through every menu in here other than being maybe a little sluggish It's PF sense. I also not sure how good the VPN will work I'm not gonna test that but I'm gonna I would generally expect really poor performance out of the VPN I don't think that goes without saying but let's talk about the What kind of thorough put we can get because that is a big deciding factor if you have a really fast internet connection Will this handle it up to what speed internet connection can you have before you're gonna run into a problem? So let's get the speed test going All right, this box is on the other side of the network and then I'm gonna go ahead and do a speed test to this one And we get 92 megs per second. I'm gonna run another one just to try it 92.2 so maybe a little bit faster second time And I'm gonna drag over this time the top running on there and we're gonna run one more speed test So you see the load average slowly dropping right now 4.51 4.15 but we run the speed test. It really pins the processor Jump right up there to 6.7 I'm gonna hit it off one more time But you can see this is really a strain on this just trying to keep up with it And we're not getting that impressive speed here. This is you know, 91.7 91 91.992 it's actually going down a little bit as we keep hammering on this I think we actually slowed it down running top on here because now we're straining the processor more running more stuff And I can let's move to just a different interface real quick So it's not refreshing because it's also if you notice it's actually taking a bandwidth or I'm sorry taking a processor power just to get the Interface for I'm sorry their PHP interface the refresh is that it has for the diamond content on screen So just by moving off that screen will actually see that now top is back up to the top as opposed to the engine X Run this one more time see if it's faster without that screen open And there we go. It's back up to 92 just by changing to a different screen on there So I'm not trying to beat up on pfSense on this but this device is a little bit underpowered I would say it's not a bad device for your home. You're gonna get all the cool pfSense features You're gonna be able to play with all the firewall settings You're not gonna be able to traffic shaping you are going to see an issue if you have a home connection greater than This 92 megabit limit on here So if you have a really fast home connection not gonna work reality is where I live Most of us do not have such a fast connection Today, but generally we install these and we expect them to last for years and years So I'm a little hesitant to really recommend this to people for this reason like it may be good for an office But you just have to be aware if you're in a small, you know A little couple person office or want to use this at home that you're gonna have some connectivity issues when they start rolling out Some of these gigabit and higher connections that are able I mean not too far from here You can get fiber connections. This would be your bottleneck at that point if you were to get something that fast So the good and bad with this is it is full one pfSense. It's nice. It's really small as you seem from the unboxing It's kind of cool-looking. I like the red color it has but performance wise you have all the cool pfSense performance But you don't have much speed. They just kind of this is kind of an underpowered device So what I recommend it if you want to play around pfSense. It's a great small device It's a great little firewall if you needed to set up maybe a small vpm where you're not gonna push much traffic Sure, this is pretty cool your own personal firewall that you could connect when you travel that would be great, too Is it a really high performance firewall? Not really With this, you know slower performance that you're gonna get if you're somewhere that has really fast internet This is gonna slow you down. This is gonna create the bottleneck between you and the outside world So while I really like the device, I think it's really cool And I'm a huge fan of pfSense running it on this maybe a little bit weak But at the price point If you wanted to you know without going through a use computer or something like that you wanted something with PfSense you can get it for that So I'm sure the quality wise like build quality is really good and feels good on it So I don't think it's gonna die or break on you, but it's not going to be that screamer you're looking for So if you like to count in here like and subscribe appreciate you listening. Thank you