PFSense in a VPN environment

[A Former User]

I'm pretty much new and I may have no clue about what I'm looking at doing.

With that said; I'm have issues with bandwidth while I'm in the VPN. I have a 200mps connection and I'm getting 28mps while in the VPN. This is a restriction of my R7000 router running OpenVPN, and I think there is no way to get anything more out of that piece of hardware.

I have a TP3600 with an Intel Core Duo E8400 running at 3.00GHz with 8GB of memory. Right now it is running Windows 7, running a plex media server, and serving files to the network.

I would like to install PFSense, plex server, and serve files to the network after installing PFSense. Is that possible?

I looked at a HP T610 Plus with PFsense but the VPN throughput would max out at 70mps.

Thanks

[Rico]

Long story short: No. :-)
pfSense is a Firewall and not made to run any custom stuff like plex, fileshares and so on.
You could run some sort of Virtualization on that host, then put pfSense there as VM, your plex as another VM.

-Rico

[wkn]

Vitualize a FreeNAS sever on that host computer an run Plex as plugin within there.

Although, i am NOT a follower of setup, that have all functionallity on one system! A router is a router, a NAS is a NAS and a media server is a media server. pfSense is NO media server at all!