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[ms (Michael Tremer)]

@lexuspolaris

I would really like to tell you but I’m not going to unplug that thing again from my “IPFire Mini Appliance Limited Supreme Deluxe Edition” (pictures will follow)… It took me ages to lay the 6 antenna cables in a satisfying way (4 for the WiFi-Module and 2 more for a WWAN-module) just to calm down the Mr. Monk in me … and I really really really don’t want to do it again.

Haha, the next one will have four antennas. That might bring you a little bit closer. We never sell any with WiFi and Cellular, and I hope it will stay like that because we might scare people who are afraid of spiders.

@lexuspolaris

All I remember is, that my module looks like the one on the techship site (regarding the sticker with the MAC-adress on it) and not like the one from alibaba. It has these pins inside the cooler but unfortunately I cannot remember if it has screws on the backside.

I am absolutely not a hardware guy, but I will soon have all the other IPFire people over and together we will find a way to attach it to the case for optimal cooling. I am just assuming this module will be hot, because my 802.11ax module is hot enough to fry an egg on it.

@lexuspolaris

It’s a pretty high cooler compared to the compex module but there still is some room (about 1 or 2 cm) to the “roof” in the classic APU-board-housings… so if the new Mini Appliance will have the same dimensions, it will definitely work.

I never ran the 802.11ax (i.e. ath11k) module in the IPFire Mini Appliance in production because it didn’t want to work at all, but I assumed it will heat up the rest by quite a bit. The new model will have a way to use the case to cool it which will be a lot better for the lifetime of all components.

[lexuspolaris]

@ms

I am absolutely not a hardware guy, but I will soon have all the other IPFire people over and together we will find a way to attach it to the case for optimal cooling. I am just assuming this module will be hot, because my 802.11ax module is hot enough to fry an egg on it.

Yeah to be honest, the modul gets a bit hotter but it hasn’t gone over 70° C so far. Compared to the Compex the whole device is about 2 or 3 degrees warmer but not more than that (I would have to double check but as far as I remember the original Mini Appliance was somewhere around 65° at my place… but my memory might deceive me).

Surprisingly the power consumption is pretty “low”… I did some testing earlier (with an external powermeter) and on load the whole IPFire went to 14 Watts. But it was a really really short test, nothing in extent.

And to finish this thread, which started about a whole different topic , the announced pictures:

IPFire Mini Appliance Limited ‘Eierlegende Wollmilchsau’ Edition (just sounds better in german )

On the left is the Emwicon, next to it a Fibocom-M.2-Modul (on an adapter), which I took from an old Laptop. It’s LTE (no 5G) and with an external antenna (a big directional) I get up to 150 Mbit’s down and 30 Mbit’s up (under not the best conditions!), which is pretty neat. Had to implement libmbim into IPFire for that, which was the reason for my first self compiled version a year ago.

As I mentioned the base is an APU.6B4, so fibre is also an option with the SFP-port on the left (but not needed at the moment, so I use an RJ45-Gbic).

I took the sticker from the original Mini Appliance (hope I did not break any laws with that )… I think the color matches just fine.

IPFire to the MAX!

[trish]

@lexuspolaris

I took the sticker from the original Mini Appliance (hope I did not break any laws with that )… I think the color matches just fine.

I love the color