Here's the reason:
My home internet is 400down/30-35 up. My computers pretty fast, but to get fiber internet means we have to trust AT&T to dig up and fix THEIR cable, and charge me the same for the same bandwidth I get on my cloud. If AT&T did fix their cable, the physical cable in clay would easily break again and I'd lose connection due to their failure to protect the cable to cut corners.
I have a cloud server that's got 8c/16t (AMD Ryzen 7 3800X), 500Mbps up and down, and 128GB RAM, but the baremetal server runs 128GB of RAM. I have 3 IPs, and I don't want to run only 3 virtual machines on it.
I think its irresponsible for OPNsense to expect us to not provide a direct iso link when there's plenty of mirrors I can cancel, and turn around and copy link/paste. Heck, I could get a Windows ISO on my hypervisor faster than I could OPNSense.
To Preface, this is a struggle when I have to reinstall my ENTIRE cloud server. Windows Server is actually beating out downloading to the hypervisor than me uploading the unzipped iso. Also, I started the Windows Server 2022 download later, and its almost done.
Also, yes I do host this on my own money too!!!! Downvote me all you want.
Is your rambling about compressed images/ISO versus uncompressed? If you have a hypervisor download the compressed file to your hypervisor and uncompress it there, Proxmox can handle some compression automatically for example.
I don't understand, there's lots of mirrors right on the download page?
(https://opnsense.org/download/#full-mirror-listing)
I fail to understand what the problem is.
Can you please explain what is the problem with the current iso file, without all the irrelevant details?
> I think its irresponsible for OPNsense to expect us to not provide a direct iso link
I think it irresponsible to ask for direct bandwidth for uncompressed ISOs that are going to be abused by every cloud provider out there offering a "show me an iso and I'll boot your VM".
You'd think someone would be smart enough to allow decompression in their infinite wisdom. But I'm sure they know how not to support mirror maintainers at all. So a compressed iso is the best we've all got and can offer. :D
Cheers,
Franco
Quote from: ttyyuu12345 on December 30, 2025, 08:24:11 AMHere's the reason:
My home internet is 400down/30-35 up. My computers pretty fast, but to get fiber internet means we have to trust AT&T to dig up and fix THEIR cable, and charge me the same for the same bandwidth I get on my cloud. If AT&T did fix their cable, the physical cable in clay would easily break again and I'd lose connection due to their failure to protect the cable to cut corners.
I have a cloud server that's got 8c/16t (AMD Ryzen 7 3800X), 500Mbps up and down, and 128GB RAM, but the baremetal server runs 128GB of RAM. I have 3 IPs, and I don't want to run only 3 virtual machines on it.
I think its irresponsible for OPNsense to expect us to not provide a direct iso link when there's plenty of mirrors I can cancel, and turn around and copy link/paste. Heck, I could get a Windows ISO on my hypervisor faster than I could OPNSense.
I don't think such strong language is warranted for this supposed issue