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      Nindustries
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      Hello.

      I'm busy planning for my home network. I'd like to build a home router that will stand between my switch and modem. My internet connection speed will be 120Mbps. (= 16MB/s)
      I'd like my home router to have 2 LAN ports. It must contain VPN capabilities so I can connect to my home server at any time! I do not want a CPU bottleneck.
      Ofcourse security is also an issue, and that's why I opted to go with pfSense!

      It does not need to be fanless and the only packages I will use are VPN and possibly ClamAV.

      Now I was wondering what hardware would be fit for the job, while still not consuming lots of power or costing a lot.
      I read good things about the Asus RT-N66U (100eu), especially concerning the antennas. Does pfSense support those antennas?
      Or do you people have other, better alternatives?

      other idea would be this: http://www.mini-box.com/MITAC-PD12TI-D2500CCE-Mini-ITX-Motherboard

      Greetings & Thanks in advance

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        @Nindustries:

        Now I was wondering what hardware would be fit for the job, while still not consuming lots of power or costing a lot.
        I read good things about the Asus RT-N66U (100eu), especially concerning the antennas. Does pfSense support those antennas?

        I gather that there's some support for the wireless chipset in FreeBSD (on which pfSense is based).
        Yet the issue isn't about wireless support, it's rather about CPU support:

        pfSense is currently only supported (stable) on i386 / x64 CPU, so basically AMD / Intel / VIA "commodity" processors.
        It does not support the Broadcom MIPS-based CPU in the ASUS - and probably won't in the foreseeable future (which is not to say it couldn't be made to work somehow but you would have to jump through many hoops).

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          Nindustries
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          Thanks for your reply, I was kind of expecting that.. Guess it'll a low-power mini-ITX atom motherboard.
          The quest continues..

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