I'm new to the roll your own router game, and I'm coming from a ubiquity edge router device. I have a symmetric 1gb connection and might later move to a 2gb. the price is surprisingly cheap 85 per month.
anyway I'm got a nas server box and I like to tinker so this is the next project. I plan on getting either a topton or similar box from aliexpress with n100, 8gb ram, and 128gb M.2, with the 4 v226 nic's. OR I get an Ikoolcore R2 device. But the topton is cheaper.
and I've read a number of things about various router OS's but a lot of the bits I read are from pre 2020. and while I know PFsense is the auto knee jerk answer, I was wondering if I'd be better off elsewhere. also I hear terrible things about pfsense support.
I'm curious if there is new better info out there. Alot of reads point to IPfire working very well, and others point to OPNsense but I think I want a linux distro based router os. Besides everything else I run is linux based.
anyway I'm got a nas server box and I like to tinker so this is the next project. I plan on getting either a topton or similar box from aliexpress with n100, 8gb ram, and 128gb M.2, with the 4 v226 nic's. OR I get an Ikoolcore R2 device. But the topton is cheaper.
and I've read a number of things about various router OS's but a lot of the bits I read are from pre 2020. and while I know PFsense is the auto knee jerk answer, I was wondering if I'd be better off elsewhere. also I hear terrible things about pfsense support.
I'm curious if there is new better info out there. Alot of reads point to IPfire working very well, and others point to OPNsense but I think I want a linux distro based router os. Besides everything else I run is linux based.