Anyone using a Cisco RV220W?

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One of these. I'm currently using a Netgear FVS338 which I've had for a long long time and it's been great, but I'll be upgrading to 120mb/s cable soon (from 50mb/s) and it's WAN->LAN limit is about 65mb/s, so I need something with a bit more power and throughput.

From what I've read, the RV220W has plenty of power (good for ~700mb/s WAN->LAN) as well as supporting VLANs with separate DHCP pools (something the FVS338 doesn't do). There's also SSL VPN which is going to be useful. But apparently the web UI is a bit slow/clunky. I'm sure I can look past that if the feature set is solid and it's a reliable piece of kit.

Anyone got any experiences with this or similar? I was looking at some of the Netgear UTM boxes too but without the ongoing support/maintenance licence you don't even get firmware updates
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Possibly, but I'd need to build a system for it so that's going to be somewhat more than £~170 for the RV220W.

Actually, I'll price up a system to run pfsense, might not be as expensive as I thought. Thanks for the suggestion :)
 
You could build something capable for pfsense for a lot less than £170 I'd have thought, plus there's a lot more features.
 
Well it needs to be rackmount. I know the RV220W isn't but I can deal with that.

Anyway, looks like about £300 would set me up with pfsense:

Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail
Samsung SpinPoint M8 160GB 5400RPM SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HN-M160MBB)
MSI H61M-P31-G3 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
Intel Gigabit PRO/ 1000 CT PCI Express Desktop Network Adapter (EXPI9301CTBLK) - x2
OcUK Swift 500W V2 Silent Power Supply
Kingston HyperX Blu 2GB (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Single Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1/2G)

A 3u chassis is going to be about £80 with rails and delivery.

I appreciate that none of that kit is server grade but a rack in the garage is where this is going to be living, so it needs a suitable chassis if it's going to be a PC.

Is pfsense really that much better?
 
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