What should I buy? - Netgate Appliance

flowermoron

Hello

I need help buying a Netgate appliance, I already have a pfSense VM, so I’m familiar with it but whatever I’m going to buy must be able to do what my VM is capable of.

First, it's for home usage, I have over 30 devices, like multiple gaming PCs, CCTV, Wi-Fi access points, mobile devices, & TVs.

My net speed is 700Mbps, entire network is only 1Gbps of course but I have a small 10Gbps switch for few devices connected to my PC/NAS.

I use my pfSense for pfBlockerNG, HAProxy & Port Forwarding, Dynamic DNS, routing a few devices through VPN, & UPnP for gaming devices.

Thanks in advance.

slu

@flowermoron
if you are happy with your VM, why using a hardware appliance?
Or whats the reason for hardware now?

And yes, I prefer hardware only pfSense, not using a VM in production...

SteveITS

@flowermoron Given it's 700 Mbps and haproxy I'd highly recommend something larger than a 2100, so a 4200. 4200 Max since Netgate has haproxy marked as "requires" SSD (due to the disk writes).

I would expect a 2100 to top out around 700 without anything else running.

flowermoron

@slu said in What should I buy? - Netgate Appliance:

@flowermoron
if you are happy with your VM, why using a hardware appliance?
Or whats the reason for hardware now?

And yes, I prefer hardware only pfSense, not using a VM in production...

Why do you prefer hardware only pfSense? Same as you probably.

@SteveITS said in What should I buy? - Netgate Appliance:

@flowermoron Given it's 700 Mbps and haproxy I'd highly recommend something larger than a 2100, so a 4200. 4200 Max since Netgate has haproxy marked as "requires" SSD (due to the disk writes).

I would expect a 2100 to top out around 700 without anything else running.

Just saw a review on YouTube by Lawrence Systems, looks good.

stephenw10

If you need to run HAProxy and pfBlockerNG though I would want a 4200.