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    Veli Pekka Nousiainen

    What Daniel said:
    offset
    Offset sounds good
    One may buy a new/used cabined in the future (like Nov. 2024).
    Plan B, but also a ventilated bottom on the other side so that the power brick can be either side.
    Oh, and Ethernet holes also on the other side, too!
    Yet again a cardboard covers for those who do not need the ethernet holes on the right or left.
    Symmetric BB option with offset
    aka BOB

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    Firewalla

    Update: (May 6th)

    • The PCB (board) was submitted to the factory and waiting for production.
    • The sourcing of materials for full production already started. 
    • The team is now working on the packaging and little things like the dust cover. 

    Our beta schedule is still good.

    Here is one of the designs of the outside box. 

    And experimenting with the inner seal.

    And, of course, dust covers are always important 

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    mikehuxley

    Looking good @firewalla.
    I will say that the box for the Gold Plus was not your greatest, but your box for the Gold SE was fantastic! Looking forward to seeing the Gold Pro arriving in a nice looking protective box

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    Firewalla

    With the Gold Pro, we are likely to be between the Gold / Gold Plus and the Gold SE. The Gold SE has a smaller power supply, and the form factor is small, so it is much simpler to design a 'cute' box 

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    Ram!

    No changes will be made for the fan air vent holes?

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    Firewalla

    Here is a quick animated gif of the final gold pro. (due to Zendesk, we can only upload 2MB max)

     

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    Eibensl

    Thanks for posting the clip of the final product; looks good.

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    Andre

    ETA on when we will get our Beta units please?

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    mikehuxley

    Looks great, a big well done to you all at firewalla. I'm excited to receive and use it. I appreciate you all have put a lot of time and a tonne of effort to get this far, I really appreciate it.

    One question. Does the fan spin constantly or does it kick in when thermals demand it?

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    mikehuxley

    @firewalla

    I do get your point regarding the Gold SE box, it was nice fitting more than the 'cute' factor. However yeah the power supply was small as you say. I'm guessing there is no one producing a kettle lead with slide on plug ends so you could easily then supply US and EU plugs in the same packaging? I appreciate most slip on plug ends are on the power adapter themselves rather than the lead?

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    Spinj

    On the rack ears, I'd say option A as $10 is pretty cheap for after market ears.  The only change I might make is a couple of holes for zip ties to mount the power brick.  Note that I thought I'd find inexpensive 3rd party rack ears on amazon, but no luck.  

    Additionally within a couple of months someone on Etsy will be selling a few 3d printed variants of option B so people can get what they want.

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    Veli Pekka Nousiainen

    Option B
    Additionally within a couple of months someone on Etsy will be selling a few 3d printed variants of option A so people can get what they want

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    Anders Ripa

    It now says:

    Project Status:
    • 4/4/2025: Started testing the 'golden unit'
    • 4/15/2025: Tentative testing done and certification stage starts

    Is the year 2025 correct or is this a spelling error?

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    mikehuxley

    @anders
    Where did you see that?

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    Anders Ripa

    @mikehuxley In the announcement text at the top of the page, löooks like a spelling error.

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    Andre

    Anders Ripa
    It’s saying tentative delivery date is November 2024, isn’t any mistake actually, they may ship some beta units earlier 

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    Anders Ripa

    I see that Andre
    Then if you scroll down to project status it say 2025 for year :-(

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    Firewalla

    fixed, sorry ... there goes my bonus for the year 

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    Andre

    Firewalla
    Its said: 
    This unit may not materialize in 2024 if we don't get enough signups.
    Did you guys got enough signups already? Or if not, how many left?

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    Firewalla

    Sorry, it's my fault; I should have cleaned up that when we did the pre-sale. (just cleaned) 

    The unit will be going to beta in July, 2024 for sure.

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    Firewalla

    We just sent out the Firewalla Gold Pro survey + early access email to those who purchased the unit. (if you don't see one, please check your SPAM folder)

    At this moment, we are fairly confident the early access (beta) will happen between 6/25 to 7/25. The final shipment should be in November. Included in the survey is also the "rack mount" voting. We will also take this to the public for a secondary opinion. (the final style selection will be weighted 70% from people who purchased the unit, and 30% from others)

     

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    Robert Kobbeman

    If potential/future sales are wanted, seems like the opinions of those who have not yet purchased would be most important.

    One question… in the case of FWG, how long was it until you came out with the FWG+?

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    Firewalla

    If my memory is correct, the Pre-Sale for the Gold was in 2019, Gold Plus Pre-sale Aug, 2022

     

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    Ram!

    @Firewalla,

    My inbox doesn't show the survey email , and I also checked the junk nothing there as well..

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    Firewalla

    @Ram!

    Did you unsubscribe from the firewalla weekly news? if you have, can you subscribe https://firewalla.com/weekly again? (otherwise, we can't send email to you). After you subscribe, likely in two days the system will resend the email to you. 

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    Christopher Ferrante

    Filled out the survey :-). Hoping to get early access!

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    Ram!

    @Firewalla,
    I resubscribed again, and hopefully I get it sooner than two days..  Thanks!

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    DanM

    I missed the earlier message, just subscribed. Not a power user but want to support. 

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    Firewalla

    FYI, the "buyers" early access survey, version B of the rackmount is winning by a very large margin. We also did a reddit and Facebook poll for none buyers, B is also winning. We will wait one more day for the survey to trickle down. So at the moment, consider B is the final rack mount

    Since nearly 50% of you surveyed don't need a rack mount, we may need to adjust the pricing up by 2 to 3 dollars. (from what's quoted in the survey)

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