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    jez
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    how do I get my hands on an early/beta device?  ive participated in the beta community, and I was also one of the first to place an order within minutes of it going live (and was probably the first to suggest you take pre orders).  ive ordered quite a few Firewalla's to date (maybe 10 so far?)... and I have two sites that have 10 gigabit fiber internet so can help with testing.  thanks.  -- Jez

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    Troy Dampier

    What USB version are the USB ports on this new Gold Pro?  I am looking forward to receiving mine and doing some testing :)   Will there be an upgraded Wi-Fi SD card to support Wi-Fi 7 or is there support for third party Wi-Fi adapters? 

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    Firewalla

    USB is 3.0.

    I don't think there are any USB WiFi 7 around yet ... even if they are, it may be very hot

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    chewingcheung
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    Delivered today! Will setup later tonight!

    it did come with the wrong power cable for the adapter. Lucky I have a few spares. 

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    Veli Pekka Nousiainen

    @chewingcheung
    DHL shipping?
    When did @Firewalla ship it
    and how long it took to arrive?

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    Andre
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    I promise if Firewalla will send me one ,I will unbox Firewalla on YouTube, I have 2.46K subscribers :))), I know it’s not too much but a little bit free advertising wouldn't hurt I guess :) But only unboxing, nothing more 

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    chewingcheung

    https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/25574346848275/comments/30863254118419

    Shipped on 28 June
    Received on a Sunday 30 June
    DHL shipping

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    Veli Pekka Nousiainen

    @Andre 2.46K +1
    if you link here only your final cut of "André unboxes the Firewalla Gold Pro 10Gbits WireGuard, VPN, etc"
    and
    the sequel:
    "André does the placement, setup, config, and deployment of the famous Firewalla Gold Pro!"

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    Christopher Ferrante

    Did all of wave 1 go out? I didn’t get tracking info yet.

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    Andre
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    Veli Pekka Nousiainen
    I don’t have it, I mean the device 
    To be honest, I never wanted Firewalla to be too popular because hackers attack popular devices and the Firewalla team is a very small group and won't be able to keep up with patches against vulnerabilities. Maybe I'm wrong…

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    Veli Pekka Nousiainen

    @Christopher Ferrante
    neither do I have a DHL tracking#
    Sad, but true – we have been forgotten :‘-(

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    Gavin
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    @Andre: the core OS is Debian right? So long as Firewalla keeps up with those patches that should keep up with the bulk of security issues that pop up along the way.

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    Firewalla

    Our shipping process is fairly slower, so please be patient if you are on wave 1 or wave 2. (wave 3 likely to happen, we have not yet send out invite yet)

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    Andre

    Firewalla
    How you guys choose people to send early units? I’m not on first two waves, although I was between first people who bought the Gold Pro who bought it with the discount coupon and feel the questions form…

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    Firewalla

    The selection process is weighted random; it goes something like this: the system will assign a weight to each major characteristic we are looking for, and when you purchase the unit, it will have a weight, too. The heavier the weight, the higher the probability you will get a spot. 

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    Firewalla

    FYI, we have Gold Pro activations from California / Washington State, Hong Kong, Singapore, UK, and France

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    Firewalla

    Update:

    • A small portion of Gold Pro are getting activated in USA/HongKong/Singapore/UK and France
    • Wave 1 is a bit slow and may take a few more days to finish.
    • Wave 2 will likely start next week.
    • Wave 3 invites should be out by this week.
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    Firewalla

    @andre There is still wave 3 invites

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    Firewalla

    FYI:

    We have increased the Gold Pro unit from $798 to $818. This price is likely to rise after all beta units are shipped. 

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    thernus
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    Mine arrived earlier today, I had a couple of issues migrating from a FWG but got there in the end.

    Quickly tested OpenVPN and getting around 3-5x increase in speed through my provider over the gold, very nice!

    edit: Main issue I had - App wouldn't pair the FWG-Pro with my phone (Pixel 8 Pro) till I restarted the phone

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    Firewalla

    @thernus, I just created a ticket for you, will ask the developer to verify if the pairing issue is pixel or firewalla. (I think likely the problem is on the pixel side, we just want to be sure)

    With the Gold Pro, make sure you check out some of the new features https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/30599664470419-Firewalla-App-Release-1-62-Support-for-Gold-Pro-Live-Throughput-by-Device-Excluding-Devices

    You will likely find pulling flows to be extremely fast :)

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    Vxtus
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    Got my Wave1 shipment today from CA to OR via USPS.

    Migration from an old FWG+ was offered in setup, but didn't work (it's been running outdated config) for me.

    Working good! 

     

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    Firewalla

    @VxTus Amazing! The fastest download we have seen is 9.40 Gbit, and I guess you topped that! 

    I am going to create a case so our team can follow up with the initial migration error. 

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    Firewalla

    @VxTus, may we borrow your speed test image (want to post it on our social media, I will attribute to @VxTus)?

    I believe this is the first public post of a speed test from "early access" Gold Pro!

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    Vxtus

    No worries, no error on the migration.  I just meant my config was old on the FWG+ (old PON settings).  I stopped using the FWG+ when my internet exceeded 2.5G, so it's been sitting idle.  So the migration attempted to use those old settings (DHCP) on my new connection (Static v4/v6) and timed out at verification as expected.

    I just used manual setup to add my new IP info and LAN settings, only took about 10min longer, total cutover to FWGP was under 15min.  Great job guys!

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    Vxtus

    And feel free to use post/images, you all deserve to brag a little, well done

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    Vxtus

    Here are some more test histories, finding servers that can max out 10G is tough, but the Firewalla doesn't have any trouble.  Test setup is: Ziply 10G (bidi SFP+) in a Mikrotik 4 port SFP+ switch, 10GbT adapter, copper jumper to FWGP, several 10G switches to an M1 Mac mini with 10G copper NIC running Speedtest app.

     

     

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    Firewalla

    FYI, here is the unboxing video, which I forgot to post last week :(. It was done on the factory floor while we are checking the units. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hutY6fuGndc

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    Derek Seaman

    I got my beta Firewalla Gold Pro yesterday. Migration was seamless and took about 15 minutes start to end. I also use ControlD on the FWGP, and that took longer to migrate and configure than it did to migrate boxes. But so far everything is working very well. 

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    Firewalla

    @derek, thank you for the feedback!

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