Fastest Cheap 4x 2.5GbE Intel Atom N6005 Firewall for pfSense OPNsense and Proxmox

We finally get to take a look at the Intel Atom Pentium Silver N6005 4-port 2.5GbE firewall and router mini PC from AliExpress. We hope to show you the pros and cons of upgrading to the faster Atom N6005 from the N5105 and N5095 units.

Note - some users have found some strange things in the first batch of these. Our units have performed fine but we have the threads mentioned below.

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STH Forums: https://forums.servethehome.com
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More Testing from STH Readers
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Here are the threads mentioned on the early units STH readers got. (Bitly to the STH forum resource since apparently, YT does not like the URL)
Main N6005 Thread: https://bit.ly/3OxmYf9
More discussion on the forums: https://bit.ly/3a2ayN4

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Timestamps
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00:00 Introduction
02:09 Pricing Barebones and Configured
03:28 External Hardware Overview
07:09 Internal Hardware Overview
09:23 Intel N6005 Performance and Networking
12:37 Power Consumption
15:55 Key Lessons Learned
19:18 Why 2.5GbE is Needed
20:27 Wrap-up

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