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by bigjimmyk3 1251 days ago
Is it a hard requirement to handle wifi as well as WAN routing in one box? If not, I can recommend OPNsense from personal use for a couple of years now. I bought an inexpensive fanless mini-pc from Amazon maybe 10 years ago, and started out with pfsense. When pfsense broke bad I switched to OPNsense and I haven't looked back.

I use a separate AP for wireless access, so that can be much dumber since most of the smarts sit in OPNsense.

The main reason I went this direction initially was that most consumer-grade all in one routers were not well-equipped to take advantage of a gigabit synchronous connection, so I wanted something beefier.

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Not hard requirement, but prefer simplicity and lower cost.