2024 pfSense recommendations

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#1

Hey guys. I noticed there hasn’t been much recent activity for pfSense builds lately. The Dell mini PC I repurposed just died when we moved and I need a new pfSense box. I was curious if anyone would make a 2024 recommendation to handle home use, Frontier Gigabit, only one or two VPN connections (mainly myself), and playing around with the plug-ins occasionally to check them out. I’m fine with used gear for this. This is to hold me over until I run cabling through the house and build out a Ubiquiti network…

Thanks for your feedback…

#2

A used PC or if you have spare resources and a hypervisor a VM would be inexpensive options. There’s so many options with regards to this question.

#3

For sure. A spare PC was what I was using.

I prefer not to have it in a VM or hypervisor. There are lots of used machines on ebay for $150…was just curious if anyone had dug into this in a while and had a latest and greatest bang for the buck recommendation.