PC Engines Multipurpose System Board with 4GB RAM - APU4D4 Reviews

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“Fairly easy to assemble into the supplied APU4 enclosure, although I've done it before with an APU2. I made a simple paper template to position the heatsink, although a couple of strips of cardboard would have worked just as well - you only need to position 2 edges of a rectangle. There's no point buying the pre-made template unless you are assembling lots of units. I fitted a 30GB M-Sata drive, which gives more space than I really needed. Installing pfSense does require a serial console lead to see what's happening and enter the appropriate keystrokes; it's impossible to do this blind. I installed from a pfSense serial image on an SD card. There are documented issues trying to use a USB stick, and it didn't work for me. My APU4 is now working absolutely fine as a home firewall and providing automatic failover between my broadband and an external 4G modem. The available built-in cellular and wireless hardware seemed too expensive and too much hassle for me, so I went with external units at the expense of neatness. Top-tip - save your config changes frequently when setting up pfSense; it only takes a few seconds and being able to go back to a known working configuration saves a lot of frustration.”

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