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    What should I buy? - Netgate Appliance

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    • flowermoronF
      flowermoron
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      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.

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        slu @flowermoron
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        @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...

        pfSense Gold subscription

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          SteveITS Galactic Empire @flowermoron
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          @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.

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          • flowermoronF
            flowermoron @slu
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            @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.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              If you need to run HAProxy and pfBlockerNG though I would want a 4200.

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