The second PC in the house likes to stream, play flash games, surf and use the network printer -to which I dedicated a subnet with no WAN interface. It so far is the best router I've ever owned. I'm pleased I made the decision to build my router out of old PC parts. I've not had that issue since installing a pfsense router/firewall. Since I've started using a router/PC I've noticed the difference, as my Dlink and Linksys would constantly freeze from heavy loads. It didn't seem like it would be a hard thing to understand after a couple months reading on the subject. Plus, its a 50MB ISO download (vs 600MB for Untangle).Īfter having one crappy manufactures router after another I decided to build one. pfsense uses about 25% of my 256MB and I haven't seen it go above 10% CPU utilization even under load. I went with pfsense because the software DuckieHo was using (Untangle) has ridiculously high hardware requirements which this Dell Dimension 2400 didn't meet. Right now there are only 3 PCs hooked up to it, but if I hosted any LAN parties in my apartment I have a feeling it would work wonders. Its used mostly for gaming but I run several services on it such as FTP and Subversion for my own open-source projects. The pfsense box and the cable modem are hooked up to an APC BackUPS Pro 650, which will last somewhere close to several hours on battery. PC: Dell Dimension 2400, 2.4ghz celeron, 256MB DDR266, 12GB Quantam Bigfoot HDD (5.25', laugh it up, I know I know), integrated 10/100 NIC WAN adapter, Rosewill RC-400-LX gigabit NIC LAN adapter. Any observations or other stuff you think is interesting.What you use it for mainly (gaming, home office, etc).Clubs seem to be popular on OCN so I'll start one for everyone using pfsense!įor those not familiar with what pfsense is all about, you can visit the pfsense website.Įssentially, pfsense is a tiny distribution of FreeBSD that works as a router + firewall, and provides other goodies.įor club members, your first post should include:

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