I've never ever used it, and it sounds pretty expensive to me, but if the shipping doesn't double with
the no of items bought, I can see it becomes tempting with an increasing number of units.
Also not really interested in buying that many whatever of the same kind, the local market's to small, it would be hard to (re)sell them.
I'm happy if the one I keep for myself is free, not really trying to make a buck.
I think the five sw301da I bought in US, ended up at ~30€/piece including shipping, VAT, tax etc, to .se.
yes I agree. It's just an example to show an item that is using global shipping program.
If I didn't do that for shipping to italy I would get 30 euro of "administrative fees" which is more or less a fixed cost, plus a VAT calculated on some strange and unknown item value (commonly item+shipping cost).
it's obviously calculated per total price so it increases if you buy multiple items. As said above this is just an example of item offering GSP, not a good item to buy
If the item didn't suck, paying only 20$ of import fees for a 30$ item isn't bad at all for Italy since as said above it's not just VAT but also "administrative fee" that is high for no reason and also the risk of getting some creative customs officer that decides the "real price" of the item is 3 times the price I actually paid so I nearly end up paying more in VAT/import fees than the item.
Also the fact that it's not going through customs at all so it's not held by customs for no reason. As another example, I only recently received a PiKVM board/case I bought as part of a kickstarter, that was shipped in december from Hong Kong and was held in customs for like 1 month and a half for no discernible reason
I had the same experience with a couple of gifts sent outside of EU. They were waiting in the customs for more than a month. Then they sent me the form to fill in, so that post office will handle the customs clearance, and after another week they arrived at home without extra charges. So I guess it was the Christmas season high workload along with the new rules that all packages from outside EU must pass customs.
I currently really have no need or purpose for yet another X86-based device (as you know ). But, oh boy, the Velocloud 520 integrating a presumably quite capable passive Atom CPU, AC wireless and an 8-port switch does sound mighty tempting.
... for $50 that is. For more than twice that price after shipping, import fees and taxes decidedly less so. I guess that's what we have to live with. US getting dirt cheap capable X86 devices, Japan getting dirt cheap capable funky consumer routers and access points, and us in the EU getting cheap-ish decommissioned "professional" firewall appliances, with pretty much no cross-pollenation.
So I have a VeloCloud Edge 540-AC and a 500-N now. Following are what I have discovered one the Edge 540-AC more to follow later. I will be creating a WikiDevi entry sometime this week.
[ 8.759370] user: clean, 120/280000 files, 156341/1115904 blocks
Press the [f] key and hit [enter] to enter failsafe mode
Press the [1], [2], [3] or [4] key and hit [enter] to select the debug level
mounting /dev/ro[ 11.815647] EXT4-fs (sda4): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
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I received a USB tester, but if I connect an external drive through the tester, it is connected via USB 2.0, so it is impossible to measure power properly.
When you dissect the 500-N, could you (if you've got a pair of calipers), measure the
barrel of the DC plug ?
The ones I bought come without power supply, and I need to get those locally.
12v 3.5A, center +, but the plug size is hard to see from photos, and there aren't
many of those around
It looks like 5.5mm x 2.5mm (outer x inner diameter), but one can never be sure.
About the Atom C2000 series, someone reported me that intel has admitted that there was a bug with this processor that could prevent the system from starting.
What @takimata said, even though I actually had issues with getting an USB flash drive to boot
on my Roqos RC10. Ended up removing the drive, and dd:ing the image to it, on another computer.
I wonder if that's anything like the issue the Sophos SG1x5s have with booting from USB. You need to go into the BIOS and set Advanced > USB Configuration > Port 60/64 Emulation to "Disabled". Only found this out from the pfSense forums. But yes, pulling the drive and writing from another device works, if it's a standard SATA device. Obviously if it's mSATA or m.2 you'll need a suitable adapter or mobo slot.
See VeloCloud_EDGE_500-N for details. Mine didn't come with a power supply either. I used one I had for a Sophos XG 115 successfully.
Mine was purchased AS IS untested and the onboard SATA NAND is not recognized so it booted into EFI Shell. I was able to boot EFI X86 OpenWrt from USB, but couldn't figure out how to get network access. There is a mini-USB serial port accessible after removing the cover. The EDGE 540-AC case actually has a popout in the case to allow access to serial, the 500-N does not.
). But, oh boy, the Velocloud 520 integrating a presumably quite capable passive Atom CPU, AC wireless and an 8-port switch does sound mighty tempting.
