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Unfortunately, this client is a school and, as usual, they have a very limited budget. Thanks for the suggestion though!

My client currently is using a Sophos UTM firewall which hardware support is ending on. Rather than having to purchase new Sophos hardware and continue to pay Sophos for annual licenses, I'm wanting to switch them over to Opnsense. The client only has a dozen people in the office and their network throughput is low because they work all day long within Cloud PCs. So, they don't need powerful hardware and they just need a basic firewall with one IPSEC VPN tunnel (used for management, very little traffic).

I'm considering this Topton unit because I'm pretty confident that the N5105 process will be fast enough for their needs and because the $300 CAD price tag is about right too :-)

https://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005003111113672.html (8GB DDR4 128GB NVMe)

It's nice to see Intel i226 NICs on this unit as I anticipate having no driver issues with those NIC (bad assumption?)...

A short list of pros and cons would be appreciated!