Protectli Vault V1210-2 Port, Micro Appliance/Mini PC - Intel N5105, 2X 2.5G NICs, 4GB LPDDR RAM on-Board, 32GB eMMC on-Board

Perfect router for an edge office. Powerful enough to do everything you need and handle a Gig internet connection. PFSense 2.8 has been rock solid in this device and install and setup weee a breeze. As an edge location the two ports are not a concern. If you use multiple connections, VLans or subnets it might be necessary to have more physical interfaces. If we update our Meraki we will get the FSP version with additional Ethernet ports.

I am pretty impressed with the Protectli products. They are a bit more expensive than the china branded stuff but not too much more. These products are clearly targeting DIY OPNSense or PFsense or Proxmox router/firewall builds. They definitely do their job. The BIOS is feature rich. The fanless design is nice. The build quality appears top notch. I've only had a couple of questions for their support and they were thoughtful and responsive. I am glad I bought this for SMB use.

I had a normal cable wireless setup, a modem with a separate WiFi 6 router. I purchased this Protectli Vault along with a managed switch. Installation was strait forward but it will take your network down for a bit. I installed pfSense onto the Protectli and configured the switch. There are many guides that can help you along the way. I am up and running on a more secure firewall that has way more features than my off the shelf router! One thing to note if you are planning on continuing to use your WiFi router is to change it to access point mode. The easiest way to do this is take screenshots of all of your configuration IP's from your modem and your wireless network names (SSID) and passwords for both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz. Then reset your router to factory defaults by pushing a paper clip into the reset button on the rear of the unit and go through the initial setup and put your router into access point mode (make sure you use a LAN port and not the WAN port on the router). Another thing if you can't get your Protectli to connect to your modem for the initial installation of pfSense. Power up your Protectli and then reboot your modem with it directly connected to the Protectli and it should grab onto the internet connect. Anyways its a great product for increasing your home or small business network security.

Very solidly built, extremely fast for our workload (firewall). Even running at 1GB, this box was had a higher throughput than our previous firewall.

Provides an exceptional home for OPNsense. Have not had any issues.

Been running this device for a few months now as a network firewall and it's been extremely reliable and had no thermal issues despite its lack of fan. Worth noting that the onboard memory doesn't support ZFS, if that matters to you.