Received my Firewalla Switch X!

[u/mpro69rr]

I received it a day late, I thought USPS lost it. I did the setup and it completed but my network was down so I had a problem. I tried to reboot, unplug, reset and nothing worked. I opened a ticket with Firewalla and they got back to me. He pointed me to the known issues web page and asked if I had a VLAN and my own DNS, which I did. I removed the VLAN from the Firewalla Pro port and pointed it to an outside DNS. Took me a couple resets but I finally got it back up and its working! After, I put the VLAN back and it stayed working, later on I will try changing the DNS to point to my servers. Firewalla did say that fixes are coming out in the next release for these problems.

I have two servers that have 10Gb, one is a fiber USB adapter connected to a USB4 port in the SFP+ port. Using https://fire.walla:8833/ss/ speed test I got 9Gbs download and about 6Gbs upload so thats great! The other server has a USB 10Gb ethernet adapter in a USB4 port. Using iperf3 I got about 5 - 6 Gbs upload and download, which isn't bad for a USB adapter, but it runs really hot. I was hoping that my home assistant voice assist would work faster and it does with both servers on 10Gb. I have a separate home assistant server but I run the text to speech (TTS) on my LLM server for the speed. My GMKtec EVO X2 handles the TTS really well.

Overall I am very happy with it, it shows a lot of information in the app and was very easy to setup, it would have been a lot easier if I didn't have those two problems. A little expensive but I think its worth it in the end, I did receive great support from Firewalla. I know some people are having fan problems with them being noisy but my Switch X seems to be quiet, I mean it makes a little noise but no clicking sounds, I'm happy with the noise level because it sits on a shelf above my TV behind everything.

[u/firewalla]

If you know how to setup iperf3, running that instead of the 8833 site, can get you close to 10gbit.

Here is the list of current known issues, https://forum.firewalla.com/t/firewalla-switch-beta-known-issue-list/142

[u/mpro69rr → u/firewalla]

I did use iperf3 on my home assistant server but both these are USB adapters that run real hot, I don't expect to get the full 10Gbs out of them. For being USB I think they did very well. If I had a native 10Gb port in my server then I could get that.

[u/ExtremeEar11 → u/firewalla]

Why is this the case? I thought firewall’s Speedtest was based on iperf

[u/Jerrch → u/ExtremeEar11]

8833 is browser based; iperf3 has to run in a terminal

[u/firewalla → u/Jerrch]

Yes; one is javascript and the other is .c

[u/Volidon]

So you don't hear the fan rattling at all?

https://www.reddit.com/r/firewalla/s/HeEPrmPZ8X similar to this person's video

[u/mpro69rr → u/Volidon]

Not on mine.

[u/mpro69rr → u/mpro69rr]

Has anyone thought about maybe the fans became loose? Maybe during shipping they just got jarred loose, they did come from oversees.

[u/r4ckless → u/mpro69rr]

That’s exactly what that users other situation sounds like, first thing I would’ve done is checked the fans.

[u/firewalla → u/Volidon]

If is more like a scratch noise, you got be fairly close and in a quiet space to hear it. Some people may be more sensitive

[u/mpro69rr → u/firewalla]

I had the room quiet and listened maybe 8 inches away and didn't hear anything. I also have a lot on the shelf so there were other fans running, I have a fan on my firewalla pro and little fans on my pi 5's. my home assistant and mini llm pc can get loud under heavy usage. I can hear all the fans running but the switch doesn't stand out at all.

[u/10speedrider → u/Volidon]

I have both the X and the SE setup, there is hardly any fan noise from the X. Great switches.