I’ve been using pfSense for about 5 years. The past 10+ years I’ve been on either 1x1Gbps or 2x1Gbps symmetric up/down links via fiber (no isp boxes), no consum

I’ve been using pfSense for about 5 years. The past 10+ years I’ve been on either 1x1Gbps or 2x1Gbps symmetric up/down links via fiber (no isp boxes), no consumer/semipro router in the $150-400 range have been able to keep up with these links (tried a few at different times) and especially not handling IPSec-tunneling at these speeds. So I use my old Nehalem/supermicron server (8c/24GB ram, multiple intel pro nics). Used to run FreeBSD+pf then NetBSD+npf manually configured but around 2013 my hard drive broke in a move so I just threw pfSense onto an old disk I had laying around as a temporary solution to get up and running quickly, at that point I never had time/got around to actually set up npf again so I just keep running pfSense and still am. This server costed me about $100 since I salvaged most parts from a broken server I bought of some company back in 08, been running really solid and tried to replace it with highend prosumer routers a few times when I were upgrading my Wi-Fi but they never kept up, I’m now using UniFi Ac PRO for Wi-Fi since my last tplink router/ap broke.