Choose routers, firewalls, and gateways for home labs and self-hosting.
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Compare the hardware, specifications, and tradeoffs that matter for this buying area.
Most home-lab gateway shopping starts with the wrong number: the speed your ISP advertises. A software firewall on x86 hardware does its work on the CPU,…
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Both paths can run the same firewall software. A dedicated Netgate appliance and a repurposed office PC with a multi-port NIC can both run pfSense.…
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You've outgrown a flat network. You want VLANs to isolate lab gear from IoT devices from personal machines, and now you're facing a topology question that…
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