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pfsense on a thin client = 40$ OpenWRT on a home router as AP = 30$ Not getting pwned = priceless
by ariendj 11y ago
pfsense on a thin client = 40$
OpenWRT on a home router as AP = 30$
Not getting pwned = priceless
- Narkov 11y agoThe problem is that mom and pop can't possibly be expected to do this. They are trusting that the device they buy or the device their ISP provides, is secure.
- serve_yay 11y agoIndeed, but I don't think ariendj was talking to mom or pop.
- joejoebob 11y agoWhat are you running pfSense on for $40?
- un1xl0ser 11y agoI think that he means per month in electricity costs. ;)
- joejoebob 11y agoSeems a little high to me, but it does make more sense.
- ariendj 11y agoIt's the HP T5735. It's second hand from ebay. I got the fat version that has an extra PCI slot and I put a Realtek gigabit NIC in there. It's fast enough for home use, it does not saturate with my 200 megabit link. I use a TL-WR1043ND as an access point and VLAN-capable switch.
- un1xl0ser 11y agoI switched from OpenWRT to pfsense a while back and I am never going back. It runs great in a virtual machine, if that's your thing and you already have a need for VMs.
- ariendj 11y agoDitto. Also, even low power x86-64 just beats the crap out of any MIPS processor you'd typically run OpenWRT on.
- cenal 11y agoWhat thin client that can run Pfsense is $40?
- ariendj 11y agoHP T5735, there is a wide version of it with a PCI slot. I don't know about prices worldwide but 40$ is pretty much what I payed for a second hand one here in Germany.