Few simple questions

[etnoggin]

Tried to set up a box last night, couldn't get it working yet.

Anyway, I just want someone to let me know if pfsense is right for me.

I have a simple home network

–-modem----linksys router
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                   pc pc

A couple pcs are hard wired (these are mine), the rest are wireless laptops. The household likes to torrent, so i'm going to need traffic shaping.

This is only available on two interfaces, what does that entail? The torrenters are only on the wireless network. I'm the only one wired.

I have a laptop which will be the pfsense box, one NIC, and i'll be using a USB Ethernet adapter. I also read I won't be able to traffic shape very well and it won't be very stable with a USB Ethernet adapter as one of the nics. Can someone clear this up for me? Can't find much info on this.

Thanks

[wallabybob]

I've used a USB ethernet adapter for my WAN link for some time and it seems to work OK. The adapter is USB 1 (max speed of 12Mbps). Since my broadband link never seems to report higher speeds than 6Mbps download and 1Mbps upload I doubt the USB speed limitation is ever a problem.