Roberto, thanks for posting those links. I can see now that firewall appliances typically do not advertise the CPU powering the system. Thanks to the IPFire team for going above and beyond to give us this information despite that not being the industry standard for firewall appliances. I had no idea about this til now. It’s a good educational experience.
Thank you, @ag for your words of wisdom. I stand corrected for my part in this thread.
It will be greate to have a WIFI preorder option. I have a small passive China PC for travel and tried many different WIFI cards in AP mode but always got a bad performace with only about 8-10 MB/s. With my grandstream WIFI 5 AP I get about 42 MB/s, even with 2 walls in between. I would like to see a portable device with performant WIFI.!
I am currently traveling and don’t have time to finalise the code and get it ready. We also require a kernel update in IPFire which won’t be ready before Christmas and quite likely be coming out in January.
We will however launch a pre-ordering process whenever we are getting close to have everything in line and everything will work in IPFire - and not only in my development version.
I have benchmarked about 950 MBit/s with an iPhone with this appliance over WiFi. I assume that the phone only supports 2x2 MIMO whereas the appliance will support 4x4 MIMO which I didn’t test yet with another device. So this will have a lot of bandwidth and I am very excited for it.
That sound great. Is there a way to build in a second WIFI? I guess no. I’m asking because I use WIFI for red already (mobile or hotel WIFI). Maybe there is a second m.2 for WWAN that can be used for WIFI, too. I’m annoyed of USB Tethering because of random MAC addresses.
The appliance has one mPCIe slot which would be required for WiFi simply because of its high bandwidth. There is another m.2 slot for USB devices which is perfect for 5G/4G/LTE/etc. modems. The only thing that needs figuring out is how to configure the antennas as the appliance only has four places to put them.
Ah ok. I wonder that wwan still uses the old mPCIe slots. But this slot may only have USB and no PCIe lane connected to it. I had that once and couldn’t use it for wifi (only blueeooth worked). Maybe you have a mPCIe to m.2 adapter and can find this out? Or any other way to figure this out?
Yes, that is correct. But all modems I know only use USB anyways.
I don’t have an adapter, but I know this for certain 
So, the WiFi modem goes into the mPCIe slot, the WWAN modem goes into the m.2 slot.
There is another solution. I may use the m.2 SSD slot for WIFI, too:
@ms @jon @bonnietwin @bbitsch @ag @current_user seems i got the wife to okay the purchase tomorrow… I’ll believe it when when I see the
confirmation maybe @current_user can do the same…
Ordered! Can’t wait to try it out.
But where would the SSD go if you use that slot for WiFi?
@busheling I am very happy to hear that this appliance is now officially wife-approved!
Did you choose the one I’m assuming? 
If so, let me know, I have some updates about the board-files.
Greetings
That one is in the race but I have a couple of problems to sort out.
Please post your update to the development mailing list. That would be the best place.
Does the new appliance have wall mounting options/features, like the previous one had?
Currently not, we don’t have this planned either because there was not a lot of demand before.
This is what I bought for a IPFire device (and a second for a modem)
Um I’m still using an old dell optiplex 960 hand me down that i repurposed until my new IPFire Mini that my better half allowed me me to purchase to support IPFire. It was around before my hair turned white/ err grey lol
You should have been telling her of the WIFI edition. You wouldn’t have got a go to buy the regular version so we wait together for the preorder of the WIFI edition.
I’m delighted to finally see an update to the Mini Appliance. The old AMD GX-412 one was really getting long in the tooth.
It’s a pity this wasn’t released a year ago, when I went off and got a ProtectLi VP2420 - which from what I can see has the same specs as this. I would have liked to support the IPFire team instead.
Given the question of PPPoE connections has come up above, I can confirm being able to saturate my 1Gbps connection which uses PPPoE from my ISP with my ProtectLi box which also uses the Celeron J6412. This is with the Intrusion Prevention System enabled only on the Red interface.
That is very good to hear
This is also valuable feedback. I am still waiting for someone to have a 2.5 Gbps internet connection to test this all under real world conditions. In the lab we could not build a scenario where this box is struggling.
