I've been running PFSense on an old Acer Aspire (now called veriton) and it's worked decently well for home use (100 Mbit downstream internet). It's only real

I've been running PFSense on an old Acer Aspire (now called veriton) and it's worked decently well for home use (100 Mbit downstream internet). It's only real downside was a single gigabit NIC, so I had to use VLANs and a router-on-a-stick configuration on a managed switch. Since the hardware is aging (and I want more NICs for no good reason) I recently found the edgerouter from Ubiquiti. It's running a modified version of Vyetta/vyos and shares its powerful CLI. It's also dirt cheap at <$100 and has been said (I haven't tried to max it out yet) to handle 500Mbit throughput. So far I haven't found anything that it can't do. It will also POE a few Ubiquiti access points, if you are into those. Makes a really nice home setup for the home network engineer for <$200.