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      wouser last edited by

      Hi guys!

      I finally decided to create my self a pfsense box for my home network. Main goals is to use it as a router/firewall for my 300/30 line and to connect to an OpenVPN and let some IP adressess pass through there (low traffic) and host an OpenVPN server which ill ocassionally use (so low traffic).
      Main concern is keeping up with the general speed of my connection which will probably within a couple of years be upgraded to 500/50.

      I have been looking around and these boards caught my interest:
      PCEngines APUC4 http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm
      Supermicro X10SBA-L http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/celeron/x10/x10sba-l.cfm
      Gigabyte GA-J1900N-D3V http://www.gigabyte.co.nl/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4918#ov
      Gigabyte GA-N3150N-D3V http://www.gigabyte.co.nl/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5631#ov

      Processer technically the J1900 is the fastest but is that the bottleneck here?

      Anyone who can help me figure out the best board for my needs and point out wich will give the best throughput?

      Thanks alot in advance :)

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        mauroman33 last edited by

        you're right, as you can see here
        https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=115673.0
        J1900 is the worse in OpenVPN performance

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          PCEngines APUC4 http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm

          300/30 ok but not the 500/50 this will be not really nice with pfSense in that moment.

          Supermicro X10SBA-L http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/celeron/x10/x10sba-l.cfm

          To high in price compared to the overred CPU power and the jetway NF9HG-2930 is cheaper an better in my
          eyes, because it supports DDR3-1600MHz RAM modules and it is sufficient to run many packets on pfSense
          and on top it is 100 % compatible to pfSense.

          Gigabyte GA-J1900N-D3V http://www.gigabyte.co.nl/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4918#ov
          Gigabyte GA-N3150N-D3V http://www.gigabyte.co.nl/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5631#ov

          J1900 would be to low power offering but the N3150 would make sense to me, but is not really my choice
          then better to go with a C2558 or the NF9HG-2930 thats would be my first choice here in that case.

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