Hey Guys. Currently I‘m running SG135 in my home network with 4 VLANs and two APs with no issues. Now I got an opportunity to get one XG135 at a good price. AFAIK both devices in 3rd revision have the same CPU, right? Would you change to the newer XG135 or is there no big performance difference? What are your thoughts?
I’ve never played with Sophos XGS, but I found a 135 for $120
I’m wondering if this will make a good opnsense box.
Sophos XG 135 Rev3 firewall/router Sophos XGS firewall home edition v19
With Hardware rev3 intel x86 CPU 6gb ram 64GB SSD
In the coming months I'll be redoing my lab and with a gig pipe coming in I'm considering a wireless capable XG firewall based on my experience with running the home edition of the Sophos XG Firewall in a VM. However, I want to make sure I'm sizing this correctly as I don't want the firewall to be the limiting factor.
Based on what I'm seeing here, https://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/next-gen-firewall/tech-specs.aspx#DesktopModels it seems the minimum barrier to entry is 115 but I'm wondering how real these specs are.
Similarly, what if I go the other direction and stick with a VM, how does that impact performance?