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Do you maintain a separate PC to run pfSense or IPCop ?

james_bond
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Anyone here who maintain a separate PC to run pfSense or IPCop ?

https://www.pfsense.org/

https://www.ipcop.org/

What about the spike in electricity bill ? I am planning to get a cable broadband connection & once I do that I intend to use IPCop in place of a regular router. The only thing that  I am worried about is the increase in electricity consumption.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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34 minutes ago, james_bond said:

Anyone here who maintain a separate PC to run pfSense or IPCop ?

Yes. My old one is an Up Squared - SBC and the new replacement for it is an Odroid H2+.

36 minutes ago, james_bond said:

What about the spike in electricity bill ?

If you buy a full-blown desktop-PC just to run PFsense or similar, you're doing it wrong. Those smaller boards, like e.g. the ones I have, don't consume much and won't affect your bill.

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2 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

Yes. My old one is an Up Squared - SBC and the new replacement for it is an Odroid H2+.

If you buy a full-blown desktop-PC just to run PFsense or similar, you're doing it wrong. Those smaller boards, like e.g. the ones I have, don't consume much and won't affect your bill.

Yep, or you get yourself a server that serves multiple uses. I run PiHole on my NAS which would be already running anyway so the cost doesn't increase at all.

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there is also pc engineshttps://www.pcengines.ch/about.htm. I used to run one of their older boards. I can't remember the OS I used. May have been alpine linux. I lost it or gave it away when i moved flat. For a while after that I used an intel nuc i picked up really cheap. I think the hardest part is choosing the wifi card. Right now im using a router coz it has faster wifi than i can find for my nuc.

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1 hour ago, james_bond said:

@WereCatf

Slight change in plan. I want to try Smoothwall Express >>>https://smoothwall.org/

Can you please visit https://www.amazon.in/ & tell me exactly which device I need to buy ?

Note: Use amazon.in not .com

https://github.com/ShorTie8/SmoothWall-pi

 

You have to build it from source though, it takes 12 hours on a Pi4.

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