I finally decided to buy a mini PC to make it as a pfsense router and I was wondering witch option is more suitable for my needs
First I was thinking of doing with proxmox so I could install pi-hole and wireguard in it but looking more into pfsense I see that there is PfblockerNG and also a Wireguard package that could be installed inside.
What does everybody in here use? I’m curious to know if thinkering in proxmox to run pfsense is more efficient than just installing bare-metal.
Thank you
Conclusion: will go with sole pfsense since I never used it in the first place, once accustomed will switch to proxmox, thank you everyone I hope there will be more posts like this in this platform
Yeah the n5105 looks like a nice little processor. I also liked that those boards come with the i226-V 2.5GbE controller.
For myself, I really wanted wifi 6e and something able to mesh (for the happy wife factor) so I recently purchased the TP Link Deco. It should arrive in a week or so.
Personally, I would have preferred to setup OpenWRT for a nice mesh but for some reason there are no Wifi 6 ones yet let alone 6e.
Wifi Mesh is where you basically have multiple access points having the same ssid, right?
Yes. And the devices also should be able to pass you between nodes for optimal reception.
This can be done by openwrt too, with the right hardware.
Hmm, you can use openwrt as an “dumb” mesh access point? I tried to set it up as a router once, but wasn’t happy with how things work there. Might give it a chance again. Any hardware recommendations?