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It needs to be rack mountable, 1-2Us. Ideally I'd like to spend no more than $300 on it. Any more than that and it needs to be well worth it.

Doesn't really need to have beefy specs, just a decent dual or quad core CPU, 4-8 GB RAM, and it doesn't even need to have a hard drive as I have plenty of spares on hand. Must have two or more NICs, gigabit or better.

I'm open to application-oriented equipment if it can meet my needs, but the current plan is to just throw OPNsense on the machine.

It needs to be rack mountable, 1-2Us. Ideally I'd like to spend no more than $300 on it. Any more than that and it needs to be well worth it. Doesn't really need to have beefy specs, just a decent dual or quad core CPU, 4-8 GB RAM, and it doesn't even need to have a hard drive as I have plenty of spares on hand. Must have two or more NICs, gigabit or better. I'm open to application-oriented equipment if it can meet my needs, but the current plan is to just throw OPNsense on the machine.

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Netgate has good pfsense routers that are beefy. I've used a few. Problem is theyre all gigabits rn. If you're going to spend that much, you might as well go 10gbe and upgrade your network. In my area we are already getting 1.4 gig speeds in residential.

I'm doing a hp proliant microserver with a dual intel 10gbe nic and pfsense in a vm as a router (800ish). Everything consumer grade for multigig is shit and expensive 500-700 with the new wifi 6 standards to further irradiate your household.

Just build a router and add APs if you need wifi.

We're hitting that point where everything is going to have to be beefier for multigig networks. Faster processors and more memory, these consumer grade routers from asus linksys and other shit aren't going to cut it.

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I like the Proliants. We have a bunch of them at work, and they're solid beasts. Takes about three years to boot one up, but they'll run forever. I like them better than the PowerEdges.

We're hitting that point where everything is going to have to be beefier for multigig networks. Faster processors and more memory, these consumer grade routers from asus linksys and other shit aren't going to cut it.

Yeah, no kidding. Apparently Walmart even still sells routers with 10/100 ports, and they're like $40. WTF? Wifi is even faster than that now.