Provides way more info than EdgeRouter X. Ive written much more in depth issues about them elsewhere. even the edgerouter lite is overkill for almost any home. The only edgerouter i would use that has decent spec’s cost about $399 – i forget the exact model number. Nothing sub-$500 seems to do IDS/IPS with any decent speed, so maybe I'll have to do without (not a dealbreaker). The netgear, the dlink I linked to and the utter POS... Not worth the 20$ I got it for price tag tplink one -- you can not remove vlan 1 from any ports.. If the edgerouter works for you, then keep it, pfsense/netgate devices are kind of pricey for some, the nice thing is I can install on pfsense on whatever hardware I want (though I suggest you stay away from realtek network cards). As far as the firewalling on the edge router goes. Thanks in advance! We believe that an open-source security model offers disruptive pricing along with the agility required to quickly address emerging threats. The point to take away from that page would be this statement I think.. "End of Life (EOL) will typically occur within 1-3 years after the EOS date". If I wire directly to the 5268AC I get 850-900 Mbps, sometimes a little more depending on the time of day. My J5005 pulls 15-22W, which is about $25-30 a year. port 2 DMZ-192.168.200.0/24 Only users with topic management privileges can see it. The biggest issue a user will notice is the very limited onboard storage space meaning firmware upgrades are a bitch. I initially was using the ASUS-AC68U but it can't hand the 1Gbps up and down connection, it was slowing my connection down to around 700/700. If you want cheap that works then ubiquity. What are your thoughts on pfSense's QoS? Yes. I was also at first think of building a Pfsense machine, but in reality it is very overkill. After some looking around and weighing my options, I opted for the EdgeRouter Lite and UAP‑AC‑LR. Have ports to play with laggs if someone had an issue I was trying to duplicate to help them.. I've had some time to ponder and I happened to find this http://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm. Am I understanding correctly that the pfSense essentially does what the ER does as a router, so in your case of using both at two locations what’s the purpose or what is each device handling? Because of this I don't have firewalling for traffic between the lan and dmz subnets I know I need to have some but I'm not sure what I should forward between them eg only the service ports I'm using on the server http, https etc or something else? If you can cobble together some hardware for free, try putting pfSense on and see how it routes. The following IPsec VPN types can be configured on EdgeOS: The 192.168.1.0/24 and 172.16.1.0/24 networks will be allowed to communicate with each other over the VPN. The main reason I wanted to build one is I feel I have more flexibility with the hardware. NoScript).