I suspect that my aging Sonicwall, which I already own, is much more than I need given my network.
An UTM device is for something around ~245 € is not really over clocked for home usage or to much
spend money and if you have the need for an UTM device the pfSense is able to serve you also really
good and will also a do a good job for you I am pretty sure! But if you want to begin and replace such
a device it should also be able to run all your favorite packets smooth and liquid and on top it should
be delivering the same or more throughput as you got before. And a SG-2220 or SG-2440 is not that
device in my eyes.
The annual subscription costs are high.
For sure I can feel the pain, which comes beside with those license fees, but please be sure that this
small UTM device from Sonicwall is not a by the license fees substituted piece of hardware that will normally
being much more expensive and now you are orienting your self only on this lower hardware price.
So the real question is which new device will fit my needs.
This is pending on the installed packets and also on the awaited throughput.
I doubt that I require something as powerful as what I've already got
And in the meaning I was reading your text in the opening post also for sure, but with the
difference that you will be more orientating at the $180 for the Sonicwall 210 and something
like that should be driving pfSense with the same throughput and the same agility.
and which costs me too much to maintain at this point.
This point will be not there in the near future, but if the license fees are cross financing
the Sonicwall 210 hardware, you should be more orientated on the whole or entire price
of the licenses and hardware together, and this was after my math something around ~745 €
and not $180!