Gowin R86S-U4 Mini-PC Firewall/Router Review and Performance Testing!

Interested in an ultra-compact energy efficient router/firewall/server? In this video I will be reviewing the Gowin R86S-U4, which is the flagship U series model. The U series models are a new revision on the R86S-G series.

I enjoyed testing this hardware with OPNsense. I learned how to enable the 10G interfaces as well how to obtain the maximum performance under various situations.

The impact of IDS/IPS is also interesting and demonstrates the limitations of the mobile/embedded processors commonly used in mini-PCs.

Although you cannot obtain full 10G bandwidth when running computationally intensive services such as IDS/IPS and VPNs, this system is still quite capable of general routing and firewall tasks as well as limited IDS/IPS on the 2.5G interfaces (such as Zenarmor).

For more information not included in this video, please check out my written review and testing of the R86S-U4!: https://homenetworkguy.com/review/gow...

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Disclosure: The R86S-U4 was sponsored by Gowin by opinions are my own.

0:00 Intro
0:34 Unboxing
2:27 Hardware Features
5:40 Fans/Noise Levels
6:47 Temperature Levels
7:26 Size Comparison
8:09 Power Consumption
9:03 Enabling the 10G Interfaces
10:50 Performance: 10G: No IDS/IPS (MTU 1500)
12:50 Netflow 10G Performance Impact (MTU 1500)
14:39 Performance: 10G: No IDS/IPS (MTU 9000)
18:45 Performance: 10G: Zenarmor
20:35 Performance: 10G: Suricata
21:12 Performance: 2.5G: No IDS/IPS
21:58 Performance: 10G & 2.5G: No IDS/IPS
23:03 Performance: 2.5G: Zenarmor
24:14 Performance: 2.5G: Suricata
25:15 System Specification List

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