Cheap turnkey pfsense/opnsense box ready to go with everything you need.
It doesn’t have the most powerful hardware, but it’s plenty for symmetric gigabit.
$89 + shipping (costs calculated from NJ)
New Jersey?!? Better come with some gabagool
No AES and it’s a pretty wimpy cpu. Not sure what speeds it would actually accomplish…
AES-NI is only needed for VPN cryptography.
This will have no problem 1Gb symmetric traffic.
True that AES is only needed for vpn stuff, just seems like a common thing people want to do if they get a pfsense/opnsense router.
I’m actually impressed then if it should be able to get 1gb from that cpu from the specs I saw compared to my own i5-4570TE opnsense box.
You can still do VPN without AES-NI, it just won’t be nearly as fast. This is a great starter/learner platform for the money.
If you are using a Wireguard VPN, AES-NI isn’t used so I wouldn’t worry about it if you prefer Wireguard.
