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The company's warehouse has piled up a pile of old computers that no one cares about. In fact, most computers still have strong computing power. As long as you make some small modifications, you can make use of the waste.

In this article, I will introduce how to transform an old computer into a professional Internet behavior management device.

1. Let's start with a family photo.

List of tools: one old computer, one gigabit network card, one USB.

two。 Install PCI gigabit network card and connect to the Internet line.

Since the computer has only one on-board network card, in order to achieve the function of gateway or bridge, we must add a USB gigabit network card (USB network card is also possible, but PCI is stronger).

The green one in the picture below is the newly added network card.

Connect to the Internet. When configuring, one network cable is connected to the switch and the other is connected to the PC, so you can open the Web interface for configuration. After the configuration is completed, if the gateway mode is used, the Wang port will be connected to the optical cat and the LAN port to the switch. If it is in bridge mode, it connects between the router and the core switch.

3. Install the WFilter NGF system.

Download the ISO file of WFilter NGF and install it with DVD or USB. For specific steps, please refer to: installation and first use of WFilter Internet behavior Management system

After the installation is complete, the following interface is displayed.

With the PC connected to the LAN port (the first network card), you can use the http://192.168.10.1" to open the Web interface for configuration. The specific configuration steps will not be repeated, please refer to the installation documentation. After entering the Web interface, you can view the configuration information of the system. As shown below:

CPU is the Intel Pentium 4 dual-core E21601.8Gten 160G hard disk, 2G memory. This configuration doesn't look too old. How is the performance? Please read on.

4. Test the performance.

There is no doubt that the configuration of such an old computer as an office computer is too low. what is the performance of the computer used for Internet behavior management? Let's have a look together.

I chose the time when the network was not busy and observed it. There are more than 200 terminals and about 20,000 links. CPU takes up 10% and memory 20%. This performance is not bad.

Of course, not all old computers are available, and there are some unpredictable destabilizing factors. The bad path of the hard drive, the aging of the motherboard, the failure of the network card, any one of them will give you a headache. If there are conditions, or buy a new industrial computer, after all, safe, please refer to: how to DIY a free Internet behavior management equipment suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises? You can also purchase our WSG hardware products directly.

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