CWWK Intel Alder Lake N100(4C/4T Up to 3.4GHz)/N305(8C/8T Up to 3.8GHz) Dual SFP+10GbE Mini PC|4xIntel I226-V 2.5GbE |DDR5 Memory|PCI-E x4|HDMI+DP+Type-C (10 Gigabit N100, 16G RAM 2TB SSD)

Purchased barebones, added RAM, SSD then installed OpenWRT successfully. The default in my case is one 10G SFP+ port is WAN, the other 10G SFP+ port is LAN. There are 4 ethernet (copper) port at 2.5Gbit speed. I now use the full speed from my ISP, 2.5Gb/s download and using the 10G LAN SFP+ on a separate switch. The fan was noisy at first but now don't notice as much. Just give it space to exhaust the heat it stays cool. Using OpenWRT any port is configurable to your situation.I also like that it has a USBC 10G speed for my JBOD. There is also a USB3 for my second JBOD. I getting 900Mbits uploading to disk on my LAN similar downloading (850Mbits) with USBC.To avoid accupying one of the 2.5G ethernet connection to your modem, the icing on the cake is put in between your modem and this router a "10G fiber to 2.5G" adapter to get the full bandwidth out of the 2.5Gb modem speed.

I bought the N100 with four Ethernet ports and two SFP+ ports. No RAM or storage.The case is easy to open with eight screws. It was easy to install the memory and NVMe SSD.There is a lot packed onto the system board and I wish CWWK provided a user manual (or PDF from their website) with board diagram, specs, etc. I grabbed what I could from the product page on CWWK's site.Upon powering it up I was surprised at how loud the fan is. It's not the CPU fan - it's quiet and configurable in the BIOS.There is a fan on a heatsink of the PCI riser card for the SFP ports. It runs constantly and very loud. I unplugged it from the board and need to look for a quieter option...or just leave it unplugged and monitor the temperature. The fan must be a new addition as the images of the Mini PC don't show it - only the heatsink.The OPNsense install went smoothly and appears to have identified all the components but I just got started with it.Otherwise, so far so good but it's been a few days.

Ordered this unit, 4 NICs + 2 SFP ports. When I received it, I noticed that the wrong expansion card was installed giving the unit a total of 8 NICs and no SFP ports. When I reached out to CWWK, I suggested, rather than returning the whole computer, if they could just send me the correct expansion card with the matching back plate, then we'd be square. A week later and the SFP card and back plate arrived. I admit, I haven't powered the unit on yet as I'm still waiting on my Intel Optane chip to arrive to load OPNSense onto it and migrate my existing router over to this new unit, but so far I'm very happy with CWWK's responsiveness. I'll update my review if anything else comes up. Otherwise, no news is good news.

We build routers, failover bonds, controllers, and more for tower sites. We usually have to make our own equipment from scratch. Since towers are DC powered, often on solar, we have limited options in the x86 space. With this box, we're able to replace a core router, a failover bond, a managed switch, and a monitoring system all with one very small box. This is an excellent machine for our purposes. Running the OS and mostly idling, it uses about 13w. During high CPU, LAN, and m.2 usage while also powering an external monitor from the USB port, the most we hit is 35w! Of course the power budget doesn't immediately include the SFP+ modules. Attempting to stress the CPU with the machine running headless, we still only peak at about 18w.I haven't opened it up to see if there's a little wizard inside running it or if parts are held together with chewing gum, but I'm so far very pleased with this machine and will be buying many more.I do wish it came with a printed datasheet, and unfortunately I can't seem to find model-specific information on the website. The information on the Amazon page is enough for me.

Extremely loud on the N100 version. When I boot the machine up, I thought it was just doing the power on self test and thought the fans would quiet down. That didn’t happen. Just seems like they’re at max speed. Looking around online, it looks like this isn’t a one off issue.

I have been enjoying this unit. I got the 32 GB RAM and 1TB. But tonight, I noticed a fan making a noise from not spinning, and I had heard it but thought it was from an old tower. Sadly, it’s the only fan in this unit, and it was super hot. Luckily, I have a cooling pad I can put on to tell I have time to look at it.Great other than a fault fan. I have never had newer fans on a PC or laptop fail so quickly after less then 45 days.I would have rated it five stars, but with a fan less than two months old, I have to rate it three stars.

I use this for OPNSense.Two of the 2.5Gbit NICs connect to my internet (one is fiber but ethernet and the other one is cable-company style but from the modem [not a router] as ethernet).I have one of the other ports connected to my LAN.It does really nicely. I got this one because I was so pleased with their NAS-edition one.