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  • US Weighs Banning TP-Link Routers
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Dec 2024
    >I'm currently upgrading my home network, trying various options, and one of the headaches is provenance of the equipment.

    If you're concerned about provenance (or even if you're not), I suggest using a general purpose device and rolling your own ala pfSense[0]/OPNSense[1], etc, or just use one of the BSDs or Linux and use native tools or one of the many router/firewall distros[2]

    [0] https://www.pfsense.org/

    [1] https://opnsense.org/

    [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_router_and_firewall_di...

  • Open source software to limit/throttle network speed by program or process?
    1 project | /r/opensource | 9 Dec 2023
  • Router for a 1.5Gbps connection
    2 projects | /r/HomeNetworking | 28 May 2023
    One option is Firewalla Gold Plus, or you could buy a mini PC like it and run pfSense/OPNsense yourself.
  • Have the IT skills you've learnt applied to life outside of work?
    1 project | /r/ITCareerQuestions | 27 May 2023
    Download and install pfsense as a virtual machine or partition: https://www.pfsense.org Configure it with the rules you want: https://youtu.be/VAGFGppSt74 Play with it, but be careful because it will block all traffic unless you check everything properly.
  • Looking for Recommendations
    3 projects | /r/HomeNetworking | 26 May 2023
    Another option is Firewalla, or buy a mini PC like it and run pfSense/OPNsense yourself. Two similar concepts, with the cost being either money or your DIY time. A lot of Firewalla users say that it's much easier for home use than pfSense/OPNsense, so you might find it worthwhile to spend a little more on it upfront and have to tinker less.
  • VPN for network filtering
    2 projects | /r/VPN | 25 May 2023
    If you want firewall, I think you can use https://www.pfsense.org/ or https://opnsense.org/ , maybe running on an old PC or a Raspberry Pi. Not sure.
  • Looking for Guidance and Advice
    3 projects | /r/HomeNetworking | 23 May 2023
    I've recently started using OPNsense. It's similar to pfSense, but seems to be considered a little more user-friendly.
  • Bi-Weekly /r/Technology Tech Support / General Discussion Thread. Have you a tech question or want to discuss tech?
    3 projects | /r/technology | 22 May 2023
    For most router issues, I recommend people always put them in to dumb bridge mode and put a proper firewall like pfsense or opnsense as your gateway.
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  • Another ATT outage 5/15
    1 project | /r/bullcity | 15 May 2023
    I have found that my historical average packet loss is about 0.02%. Something distinctly changed around 4/20 of this year, and now the average packet loss has gone up to 0.05% with spikes even higher, associated with periods of elevated ping times. It rarely did that before. Typically the IPv6 stack has more problems than v4 (especially an incident of packet loss on 4/28), and neither has been trouble-free since I started service in early 2020. My data comes from a pfSense installation.
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