Edgerouter vs PFSense box?

TechMinerUK · 18 Mar 2016 at 08:23

Hi everyone, since I have been looking at my network recently I was wondering which of these soloutions would be better for my network if I needed to upgrade my trusty TP-Link in the future.

So which one is the better option as since I will be using a switch ethernet ports on the router aren't a big concern but power efficiency is (Don't particularly want a big powerbill increase)

TechMinerUK · 18 Mar 2016 at 17:12

Steveocee said:
If I had to pick now I'd probably go Edgerouter. I regret the day I bought my RB3011 due to it's ridiculous firmware issues which have been ongoing for weeks now.

Caged said:
If you just want a router with ACL support then get the EdgeRouter. And to be fair stuff like caching proxies that you can do with pfSense are less and less relevant now that everything is HTTPS.

Steveocee said:
Edgerouter IMO
PFsense is great and good but it's just software so you need to build something to house it. By the time you're done you won't get anything small and power efficient enough to come anywhere near the ER.
Plus the ER has very nice pretty colourful graphs as well.

Well then, it looks like it's the Edgerouter for me then

Is there any particular model I should look to buy or could I get by using the ER-X model?

TechMinerUK · 18 Mar 2016 at 20:11

Caged said:
How fast is your internet? I would be surprised if opting for the X limited you.

37 Down /4 Up with possible upgrade to 80/5 in the future

TechMinerUK · 18 Mar 2016 at 21:40

Steveocee said:
X will easily handle that. The ERL is better for very high throughput (like gigabit) but it wouldn't hurt to go for it now. The X models got a lot of slating on the UBNT forums as they don't perform as well as the lite but £v£ the X is probably going to suit you better.

Excellent news, at least I can save a bit of cash there then as by the time my area gets gigabit the router will be out of date