[talk] pfSense home unit

Jim Thompson jim at netgate.com
Fri Jan 12 19:39:16 EST 2018


Wait 60 days. 

Not saying why. 

Jim

> On Jan 12, 2018, at 7:47 AM, Brian Cully <bcully at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>    I’m looking to buy a pfSense router for home use, and was looking for
> recommendations. I don’t want to spend too much money, and the Netgate
> ones seem kind of pricy and overkill for what I need.
> 
>    The home is served by a 200Mbps cable modem, so I’d think basically
> any router would work fine. My main needs are:
> 
>    1) Ad blocking. I’ve gotten to the point where I want to put this on
> the router itself, since they’re in goddamn everything and there’s no
> such thing as Little Snitch for iOS.
> 
>    2) IPv6 tunnel with tunnelbroker.net.
> 
>    I’m pretty sure any pfSense device can deal with point 2, but I’d
> like to be sure before I drop the cash. As for ad blocking, I think I
> might need a little more horsepower to handle it. I also get the
> impression that the only platform that has universal support is amd64.
> 
>    So can anyone recommend something, preferably amd64-based, that’ll
> deal with the above, and preferably under $200?
> 
> -bjc
> 
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