I'd like to build a 10Gbit Router that has 4 or more ethernet ports (at least 2x 10Gbit). It should also have decent wifi. 300Mbit would probably be sufficient, but if 1000Mbit+ isn't too pricy, I'd like to go with that. But the most important thing for the wifi is a good range and a strong/stable connection.
This is what I was thinking so far: OS: pfSense Network card 1: 2x 10Gbit port Network card 2: 4x 1Gbit port Network card 3: Wifi card with antenna sockets for 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz Case: Some ITX case?
But I really don't know about the other hardware. How much RAM would I need? - 2GB maybe? Which motherboard/CPU/PSU would be required? - maybe something with the Pentium G3258? But are the ITX sized boards with 2 PCIe slots? What wifi antennas and/or boosters should I use to get better range than all the consumer grade routers? - I heared the Alfa stuff is pretty decent when it comes to rage? http://www.alfa.com.tw/product_category.php?pc=111
Wow, that motherboard is impressive, but 1100€ is crazy expensive. I found two interesting 10GbE cards: ASUS PEB-10G/SFP PLUS/DUAL ASUS PEB-10G/57840-2S They're both 250€ here in Germany and have two 10GbE RJ45 ports each.
hi, if you are looking for rj45 10 gig cards the cheapest I could find is :
I don`t know if its good or reliable , or Intel X540-T1
Asus ones you linked are for fibre optics with transceivers or direct copper (that is not a regular cat cable!), cables for them can be more expensive then card itself and copper one is limited to 10m
Those aren't rj45 ports, those are sfp+ ports, which means you also need to buy transceivers for them, or use direct attached copper if you only need less than 10m of cable.
I managed to get a couple of the older xfp 10gb cards on ebay really cheap, you could have a look at that. Keep in mind whatever you do that the drivers can be tricky in pfsense.