Thinking in buying a Netgate PfSense SG-4860 1U

[ApolloPT]

Hello guys,

I have been searching in several brands like, Netgate, Dell, HPE, Draytek and Cisco, for a router located till 1200€s, to replace a old one that i have. This router is being used in a company network who have ~50 devices.

Right now we have a 3/4G pen, with RDIS and a WAN port where we get our primary external connection. Both 3/4G pen and RDIS are for possible failure situations in primary external connection, and are only used as a backup. We have several group filters to block certain urls per mac address. And also we use VLAN's per LAN port and also subnets. All the configurations in this router are done through a web page, like a home router. In this network there are ~50 devices connected and in an near future will be almost (or even more) 100 devices. My primary external connection is an ideal uplink of 100/100 Mb/s that came from a fiber conversor to RJ45. This conversor was given by our communication operator.

The "best" one that i have found to set in our rack, it was the Netgate PfSense SG-4860 1U, for the price and options and features that it have, but i can find only a review about this model.

So what do you think about this router for this scenario?

 

[bill001g]

The reason you find so little is this device is between actual firewall/router appliances and do it yourself firewalls. PFSense is one of the best know free firewall packages. Many people to save money build their own firewalls with this software. What you are looking at is a pretty much a semi standard server with pfsense preloaded on it. The vast majority of the feature you want are dependent on the pfsense package and not the platform it runs on. To a point memory and cpu are important but that is much harder to compare.

In effect you are paying someone for loading the software on a server. It depends how good their support is. Any actual software patches will come from the free software development not from the company assembling the package.