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Hard to beat OPNsense on Protectli machines with your favorite flavor of networking hardware (Unifi, Microtik, etc).

I did this during COVID and it took a lot of time and learning, but now I feel like the God of my network and I can do cool stuff that wasn't possible on my old gear. I've read that Protecli boxes are re-branded Qotom machines and I'm sure you can get the same setup for a few hundred less but I'm glad I went with them for the support and coreboot OOTB.

Totally on board with the US-based support. I’ve called them once and they were fantastic. As soon as they offer a model with 10Gb NICs, I’ll buy one of those, too.

As for god mode, I agree. Super customizable and everything works properly. I grew tired of the nonsense routing ubiquiti kept releasing, went to pfsense, and right to opnsense.

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