As I've started to build up a little home lab, I've been playing around with the idea of either building or buying a PC to run pfsense on and use as my primary (edge?) router. That is, I would run my ...

That's the main thing for both router performance and media playback (unless you get a standalone video card). The celeron is probably fine for the basics but if you want to do a lot of VPN traffic or ...

Besides the obvious benefits of choosing your hardware components, there is also the software side of things to consider. Picking a system like pfSense offers you the benefits of years of development ...

While there are a lot of settings to look at and change, some are more important than others. For example, you’ll probably want to stop by your network interface setups and have a look. In most cases, ...