Going to build myself a pfsense box. Any input is welcome.
http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/QRyXhM
This will need to service 1 wired connection (very heavy usage) and 2 wireless devices (very very low usage)
The mobo I have chosen has a quad core celeron @ 2.0Ghz and dual Realtek gigabit lan connections.
The internet speed it will deal with will be fibre at about 100mbps down, 25 up
Should this be sufficient from a hardware perspective, and what if any changes would you make?
Pfsense does not support wireless adapters. (Well it does, but it so god damn poor its useless). Run the second NIC out to an Wireless Access Point.
What about this
- use the two mobo NIC's for connection into th epfsenes box and a hardwire connection to my main pc
- Buy a pcie Intel NIC and connect a Wireless access point to that. - should be ok to use an intel NIC with the realtek ones?
updated
http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/vdskbv
You don't really need to add a nic just for wireless. You can connect the AP to your switch with the rest of your network. The only reason you'd want a separate interface is if you want to keep your wifi on a different network to your lan.
Yeah I was thinking of trying to set it up with 2 separate networks, so that I can prioritize traffic from the non wireless over the wireless - so that if there are multiple users my main PC will always have priority.