I've had good luck with the supermicro 1u with the intel atom processors. Add a riser card, intel dual gig port nic, 2gigs of RAM and you have a good machine. I also put a 32 gig SSD and I have a quiet, low power packet pusher. I'd also drop the pfsense in favor of OpenBSD
Regards, Dain Bentley -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Henderson [[email protected]] Received: Wednesday, 12 Sep 2012, 5:37am To: [email protected] [[email protected]] Subject: Re: pfsense and or OpenBSD Home router. On 2012-09-12, Sean Kamath <[email protected]> wrote: > [And now I'll CC the entire list. :-P) > > On Sep 11, 2012, at 2:47 AM, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:38:28AM +0200, Shaka Nkofo wrote: >>> http://store.netgate.com/Desktop-Kits-C82.aspx >>> >>> I found this shop while looking for parts to build a home router. Has >>> anyone been through this and can give me links to cheap parts within > Europe? >> >> For Alix, pcengines.ch could be a useful place to start. >> >> For those of us on even slimmer budgets, building infrastructure by dumpster >> diving works too. > > I ended up buying direct from PC Engines for my alix 2d13's. Even though I'm > in the US, it was cheaper than netgate (where I bought a bunch of the exact > same thing for work). I ended up getting the red metal cases because they > were cheaper and in stock. ;-) > > And as far as I'm concerned, these little alix boards rock. > > Sean > > For ADSL type speeds they're pretty good for the price, but above 60Mbps or so (or less if you're doing a lot of small packets e.g. voip) they're definitely pushing it..
