Firewalla Gold Plus (4x2.5Gbit) Updates
The Pre-Sale is over as of 12/6/2022. The Firewalla Gold Plus can now be ordered like any other Firewalla product.
The Firewalla Team is proud to bring you the Firewalla Gold Plus Pre-Sale.
- 4 x 2.5 Gbit Ports
- 4GB RAM
- Packet Processing 5 Gbit
- Same great software as the Gold
- This unit is perfect for the fast internet of the future.
Pre-Sale Starting: 8/23/2022 8 AM Pacific Time
- Product page https://firewalla.com/goldplus
Other Facts:
- The unit price will increase as we are closer to the shipping date.
- Tentative Shipping Dates: 1/12/2023 to 2/25/2023. If we reach 200% of the minimum order, shipping date: 12/12 to 1/12/2023
- Shipping is first come, first serve
Presale terms:
- The is a presale, your credit card will be charged after ordering the unit.
- You can cancel the order before it is shipped for a full refund. (email help@firewalla.com)
- When the unit is shipped, you will receive a tracking number.
- All units can be returned within 30 days.
FAQ:
Will there be a trade-in program?
Unfortunately no, we do not have the capability to create such programs.
Will WiFi SD work with the Gold Plus?
YES!
Will I be able to migrate settings?
Yes, you can. We will likely enhance this so more configurations can be migrated. https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015356093-How-to-migrate-data-from-one-Firewalla-Box-to-another-
SIM Slot?
This board does not have cell support. The SIM slot is just left over on the prototype board. It will likely get removed when manufacturing.
9/27 Final Sample
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Please use this to signup to the Firewalla Gold Plus Early Access
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScEJm9_OKkFD95WI0BQr1vI5Yd1P9g8IzdYzXI3uXYWPNg6EQ/viewform
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Looking forward to it. Plan on updating my lan side with a new Cisco 220 switch. So far it's been a hassle with my Firewalla Gold but making progress. I have a pretty exotic setup in mind with multi Vlans, VPN end points to 3 offices to include cameras, AD, and a network file storage server. With a fiber connected 2.5G line to my home this setup will be sweet!
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@Chuck, sounds like you will have a fantastic set up… are you using site-to-site VPN with Firewalla now? I purchased two Purple before the WireGuard site-to-site feature was released and then gave a purple to my brother. But hoping to repurpose my current purple for site-to-site with my new Gold+.
But, be careful, I understand VPN profiles won’t migrate.
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Quick Updates:
Production Done. The shipping dates (as of now)
- International orders (outside of the USA) shipping first two weeks of November (or earlier). At the end of November, international orders will ship as normal (given product availability).
- USA orders shipping end of November to the beginning of December.
- We shipped some early access units, will ship more next week. (primarily USA users)
If you are ordering for the holidays, please order early. As the Gold plus is in limited supply. (same for other units, the lead time may be longer)
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FYI
- We already have a few firewalla gold plus activated int the wild :)
- More invites for early access being send out. Please reply ASAP.
- International orders (outside of USA), likely be sent out this week. (Yes!)
- More early access units will be sent out this week.
- USA shipping date late November to early December.
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FYI, the team is working to get the units out to international orders (outside of the USA) shipping from HK starting this Wednesday or Thursday! Likely the early access units for USA users will fly out at the same time.
USA shipping date is still November to early December, waiting for the boat to land in LA
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@Firewalla - you had mentioned that you have "We already have a few firewalla gold plus activated int the wild :)" What information does Firewalla send back to the manufacture, developer or any other website? Is it just registration information at time of setup, or is there any ongoing stats?
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We learn these from license activations.
And if you want to learn more how our cloud works, please see https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012760073-Questions-related-to-privacy-and-data-visibility
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FYI, if you received the Gold, and want better migration, please load up the beta app. See https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/10221985597331-Firewalla-Box-Release-1-975-App-Release-1-52
App 1.52 is now in beta and it can migration a lot more than 1.52
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App 1.52 is now in beta and it can migration a lot more than 1.52
I can attest to this. I migrated from FWG to FWG+ a couple of days ago, and the migration got almost everything. It missed the on-box customizations, which is to be expected, and the DNS rules, which was a bit disappointing, but it got everything else.
Kudos to the dev team for the massive and welcome improvements!
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My Gold Plus is now live routing for my home (and work since I work from home - and yes, the job makes it important I have solid home network. I will be testing multiple scenarios with the device:
- As a router for a gigabit connection
- As a router for a multi-gigabit connection
- As a router for two ISPs with gigabit and multi-gigabit connections (total of 3Gbps of bandwidth)
My main switch is a Ubiquiti USW-Enterprise-8-PoE switch. It has eight 2.5G ports with PoE and two 10G SFP ports. My NAS, PC, and home lab server connect to a 10G switch (Ubiquiti USW-Flex-XG) which connects back to one of two main switch SFP ports. I have two 2.5G Ubiquiti U6 Enterprise access points that connect to the main switch and are powered with PoE. It would have been really nice for cable management if the Firewalla Gold Plus (FGP) could be powered via PoE.
My first placement of the Gold Plus is co-located with the main switch. So, today, my connection speed from the FGP to my main switch is 2.5G. But the link is still GbE from the ATT Fiber Residential Gateway (RG) to the FGP. That will be my next change: move the FGP to co-locate it with the RG and connect via the 5GbE port on the RG. That should yield a 2.5G link between RG and FGP and 2.5G link between FGP and the main switch. I love how the Firewalla App shows me the connection speeds on the ports on the FGP.
So, after booting up the FGP, linking the box to my phone, I began the migration process. But it didn't appear that the migration was successful despite the message on the phone app saying migration successful. Device data did not migrate. It didn't take long to realize that I forgot to enroll the FGP in early access.
After enrolling the FGP in early access, I reran the migration process. My rules, groups, and devices all migrated successfully. It takes a while for the migration process to complete, but the app clearly states that it will take a minute and shows a nice progress bar (and prevents the phone from going to sleep).
I do wish that VPN settings would migrate. I still have to set up my wireguard connections again. But overall, the migration process is pretty slick. Please buy a beer for the product management and development team that brought this together.
In my neighborhood ATT offers 1, 2, and 5G symmetrical speeds. Google offers 1 and 2G. I plan on ordering 2Gbps Google Fiber soon (to add to my 1Gbps ATT) and will try to set up load balanced ISPs and LAG the two other ports to give something close to a 5gbps link between FGP and the main switch.
I haven't scratched the surface on what I think the FGP can do for me yet and I'm looking forward to continuing to test scenarios. For example, I have shut down my separate PiHole DNS/ad blocking and now have the FGP doing that work, and so far, it appears it does it just as well (maybe better) than the separate container I was running.
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@David Rothenberger,
I only use WireGuard. Neither the server nor three client configurations were migrated. It's not that big of a deal to turn on WireGuard server and re-create three client configurations. I would prefer that Firewalla migrate summary data throughput/usage information before addressing VPN migration, unless it is just an easy bug fix (or perhaps I did something wrong which is not outside the realm of possibility).
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It's weird that my settings migrated and yours did not.
The only problem I had was that the OpenVPN VPN Client configuration lost all the line feeds, making it invalid. That was easy enough to fix, though.
I agree with you about migrating the historical data. That would be very nice.
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