with pfsense you can have traffic shaping  so it can distribute the bandwidth  accordingly (and if you plan on using plex remotely  believe  me you need it), if you torrent  pfs can handle all the open sessions and will not break a sweat, you can install squidclam AV to have a gateway AV if you are interested  and much much more + x86 cpu can handle much much better workload then  those cheep processors . Oh and btw the biggest advantage is security  and stability

@marvosa: I agree with liontaur.  Give the gaming PC either a static IP or a dhcp reservation and policy route traffic sourced from that IP out WAN1. Thank you! I will research more about dhcp reservation and policy route :)

Uhm. The dhcpd.leases file. Not this. (In addition, this is just a noise cause by some stupid invalid hostname configured on the client.)

Well good to know, thank you! For anyone that's interested. With my setup running as previously described: i5-2400 some HDD, I think a WD Blue 500+GB? intel PRO/1000 dual NIC Consumes about 40W on average with not enough fluctuation to mention. $0.12/kWh: $42/yr (US avg) $0.25/kWh: $88/yr (in-betweener) $0.37/kWh: $130/yr (HI avg) To put that in contrast, an SG-1000 runs at 2.5W idle, so if for simplicity we say it runs an average of 4W in use…. it's using about 10% of the power of my dusty old PC build. My build would cost you about $100-130 to buy if you don't have anything sitting around, vs the SG-1000 at $150 (includes support I think). Granted, the SG-1000 does not have even a fraction of the horsepower and probably wouldn't serve even my very modest VPN uses. But it's still a good bracket for real world cost to operate vs a dusty old PC. Ultimately, long term it will certainly pay to buy or put something together that will serve your needs for hopefully many years while remaining low power. Once I can justify it I'll probably switch to a newer low power fanless pentium or celeron or maybe even an atom if it's at a cheap enough price/perf point, combined with an i340 or 350 and a SATA DOM. I'd like to get down to about 15W without paying a ton up front and retaining some processing power.

Well I figured out the problem (with one computer) for some reason on both computers cups-browsed.services was inactive/dead I restarted the services which now say active but only one computer can access the cups menu at this time. The laptop still times out. Yesterday I disabled IPV6 under "System, Advanced, Networking" on the pf Server, I do not have an ipv6 address set for my pfbox and I also disabled the IPV6 stack on the two computers in the kernel.  I really wish I could just build cups into pfsense. The printer is wireless.

Today i received the Draytek Vigor 130. I will continue with that modem + pfSense + managed switch for VLANs. I am not going to put any more effort in the Experiabox V8. When i have Routed IPTV working with the Draytek + pfSense (can take a while because i am going to move to an other house soon) i will write up my config here.

Now all works perfectly Thanks  ;)

How is it complicated? It just depends on your point of view and how you work, that's all.  Both methods will work.  For me, I would never forget to secure a newly-added subnet, but I might easily forget that I blocked all of private IP space in a blockrule made potentially months or years ago. I'm glad you have it working the way you want.

still having issues with this and i have upgraded my system. Have hp nc364t quad port nic and still facing the same issue. during the evenings when the load is high it still doesn't show the correct figures on traffic graphs. I have 3 x 20mbps bandwidth from isp and when the load is high, the highest one of the wan goes is 7mbps.

@dazedman: So everything had been running fairly smooth over that past several day until today. Check out my packet loss that just happened twice today. Other then my ISP dropping what else could this be? The problem is the LCDd. It is filling the error log with the following… Jan 19 14:11:05 LCDd sock_send: socket write error All of my down times and packet loss match exactly to when LCDd is writing that into my system logs. I am going to have to try removing that from my firewall and running without it for a while. Just really like that tool so that my display is not always on and when it is it displays useful info... Really hope a 2.3.2 package for LCDd gets created so we don't have to do the crazy install process.

Thanks guys, i just enabled SSH and now ill just use my cell phone to SSH into the console when needed.

Thanks… That also helps alot!