on the topic of the original post I would encourage people who really want an open source home area network router to run something like pfsense on a very small x86-64 system with four gigabit ethernet ports, rather than the linksys in the example.
Do you have any suggestions / personal experience with systems like this? I'm really concerned about getting something that isn't powerful enough to process stuff at gigabit+ rates, and most of the "routers" I've seen get pricey to do that.
As the other commenter said though - max speed is 1gbps. And approx 200mbit/s over wifi with 5ghz and the same network card I used.
This is an annoyingly unfilled product space. I keep on wanting and the market keeps failing to provide something small, cheap, and with 2 gige ports. Heck, I don't even need x86_64, as long as there's a well supported Debian port.
Anyone have suggestions for even two gigabit ports and the lowest possible price?
Also, I'm curious if anyone has concrete examples of advantages of anything other than Debian for my router. I want to know if I'm missing out on cool features or some such :)
I was considering a QOTOM Q355G4 until I decided I didn't need 4 NICs. They're $300-400ish, depending on configuration.
So the hardware is there, it's just from companies I'd never heard of.
ARM-based devices are not supported by pfSense / opnSense so you should stay with x86_64 based devices.