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For something really small the ubiquiti edgerouter devices which run their EdgeOS are a good choice. If there's a serious security vulnerability on the WAN-facing interface it will be patched. They run a fork of Vyatta. Ubiquiti employs most of the old Vyatta development team, who did not go to Brocade when Vyatta was acquired.

Or build a really small low power x86 system with a few Intel gigabit NICs in it and run open source VyOS.

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So the ERLite-3?

https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/

the $48 ER-X is much faster than 99% of peoples' residential last mile broadband connections, it's good for up to about 750 Mbps of NAT and default route outbound to a gateway.

I have a gigabit fiber line with no PoE from the fiber box. Between the 2 I think the ERLite-3 should work better.

I have no problems with a gigabit symmetrical line on ERLite-3. UniFi Security Gateway is the same hardware but in a nicer interface that works with UniFi APs & Switches if you want to go that route but you have to also host a controller. You can also upgrade to a ER-4 for a much faster CPU but I don't think you need to.

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