Help with PFsense hardware setup.
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Hello guys please be patient with me on these maybe stupid hardware choices. Im not sure what is best for my HOME setup and needs… I want to use PFsense to increase my VPN client speeds with PIA.
My ISP speeds are 150/15 and right now I run a R7000 with DD-WRT setup with Openvpn and my max speeds are 30Mbps down, this is probably a hardware limitation, as I setup an old Pentium Dual-Core E6300 @ 2.80GHz with PFsense and OpenVPN and my speeds are now 60Mbps... so now is my question about hardware.
I was reading about PFsense on server hardware and can get for $100 canadian
-PowerEdge 1950 Gen iii w/ 2x Intel(R) Quad Core Xeon(R) CPU E5440 @ 2.83GHz (8 Cores) 16gb ecc ram
Or none server hardware $150
Intel Core i5 2400 (3.10 GHz)QUAD-CORE 8GB DDR3 Ram
I don't think the Power-edge can do AES-NI and the i5 can whats my best option, if any? and will i see any speed increase with any of these? I don't have a huge budget. thanks for the input
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Hi,
You may take a look at this: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=115673.0 -
thanks I'm an idiot for not looking there first…