I just recently got a new ISP and new internet speed 1200/600, my current firewall with opnsense can not handle the speed (AMD GX-412TC SOC), I have been looking for a new firewall (opnsense + 2.5 Ethernet) and found several with the Intel N100 CPU (2023).

I was wondering if this CPU is good enough to handle the Internet speed and if there is overhead?

  • Possibly linuxEnglish
    2•9 months ago

    Honestly I’m a big fan of openWRT as it can give very good performance on cheap and used hardware.

    I’ve never used it on amd64 but it may be worth a shot.

    • SpazEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      Is there a good gui suggestion?

        • SpazEnglish
          1•9 months ago

          Last time I used Luci gui was like 12 years ago. How has it improved since?

          • Possibly linuxEnglish
            1•9 months ago

            I haven’t been using it for 12 years but right now the Luci GUI is the most extensive router GUI I’ve used.

    • @JonnyJaapOPEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      I used devices from gl iNet, the devices are good, but I find the UI of opnsense way better (compared to advance ui of openWRT) and updates are directly from opnsense.

      I still have them for smaller network tests but for some reason I never got close to it. Probably another reason is that my brother uses opnsense too, if we have any issues we can ask each other for help.