Qotom hardware

[Wombat]

Also, I forgot to mention, router performance is not a issue, the Router is only using a fraction of CPU and Memory (old i5-2500 with 8GB of RAM, and 128GB SSD), so it is idling.

[marjohn56]

Not sure how you have been able to set the system so that access to the GUI is possible from the WAN, by default it is not. 

[shred]

Are any of you running a Qotom device with a 1Gb ISP? If so, what type of CPU do you have and what kind of bandwidth throughput are you seeing in speed tests? I’m more curious about performance with IPS enabled and how many signatures you have enabled.

I have a Qotom Q335G4 with a Intel Core i5-5250U but I’m currently running Sophos XG on my home network and it achieves around 900 Mbps with IPS off but drops down to about 300 Mbps with IPS on. Sophos XG uses Snort though which is single threaded and the weird part is throughout doesn’t change if I reduce the number of signatures in my ruleset.

I’ve been running OPNsense in a VM environment and I understand it uses Suricata which is multi threaded, so I suspect bandwidth performance will be better.

[rungekutta]

Yes. Qotom 355G4 with i5, opnsense and symmetric gigabit WAN. Without IDS/IPS I easily saturate full gigabit, with Suricata and my current rule set I get approx 800Mbit down and 700 up.

[wfx3]

Q375G4 delivered today.. very nice construction.  i appreciate the advice here on replacing the thermal compound.  but i think the aluminum heatsink itself can be improved.  i read somewhere that these low power intel chips are designed for only TDP 5W.  that's seems low for this mini enclosure.

there is about 1cm clearance above the RAM and SSD .. space left deliberately to install a 2.5" HDD.  i am thinking to raise the board 1cm, flip the end plates and replace the 1cm aluminum with a 2cm copper server heatsink like this alseye LGA2011 (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/ALSEYE-sever-cooler-heatsink-CPU-Cooler-1U-sever-Copper-Heatsink-CPU-Socket-Intel-LGA2011-cooling-for/32302894055.html).

[wfx3]

so far the qotom cpu peak temperatures are not too bad .. only about 35C .. hopefully no heat sink shenanigans will be required.

i tested the NAT throughput of qotom/opnsense using iperf between wan and lan ports .. without filtering it's easily doing true gigabit 900+ Mbps. 

[wfx3]

i’m looking for a second unit, any experience here with the new Q1000X models?

https://qotom.net/product/91.html

[wfx3]

these fanless mini pc x64/amd64 are too pricey, power hungry, overheated, so better idea to move to arm64/aarch64. 

maybe rpi usb router or cm4 module with gbe carrier board. 

Can someone give me some hints to compile a build for Compute Module 4?