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FWIW, "assemble the hardware themselves" means buy a > 5 year old desktop computer and add a multi-port PCI-express NIC. Or even a USB3 -> Ethernet adapter. Mo
by 0x0000000 6y ago
FWIW, "assemble the hardware themselves" means buy a > 5 year old desktop computer and add a multi-port PCI-express NIC. Or even a USB3 -> Ethernet adapter.
Moving to pfSense was the best decision I made for my home network.
- icelancer 6y agoYou can even buy one of these ready-made boxes and slap on pfsense. https://smile.amazon.com/Firewall-Appliance-Gigabit-Celeron-Barebone/dp/B0741F634J/ https://smile.amazon.com/Firewall-Appliance-Gigabit-Celeron-... I use this exact model + RAM + mSATA drive and its more than powerful enough to sit in front of my SMB gigabit fiber connection while running DPI/OpenVPN/zabbix/etc. pfsense is awesome and the learning curve is pretty reasonable if you understand basic network theory. I love it.
- fl0wenol 6y agoI mean, the issue is some people don't want to run a whole desktop or laptop with a 20+ watt power supply to provide the occasional wifi to a phone/tablet. Unless you're running a media server plus other services (or you have a lot of end users on a fast connection) I feel like a pfSense setup is a bit overkill, and this is where OpenWRT on your ARM+Switching SoC-of-the-week excels.
- mikepurvis 6y agoI run OpenWRT on my Archer C7 and I'm very happy with it, though I actually don't even use it for wifi— it's a wired router only, with Unifi APs in the high traffic areas.