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Title: Sensei Sizing Question - Noob alert!
Post by: Pocket_Sevens on March 05, 2020, 04:50:53 am

I have a really NOOB question about Sensei and their sizing guide.

I'm running OpnSense on a laptop with a dual core i5 (two threads) with 4GB of memory.  It handles my 1Gbps Fiber connection with ease.  Looking at the size guide, does the Max WAN Bandwidth mean I'll only get 150Mbps on my connection with Sensei?

Thanks in advance and sorry for the noob question.

Title: Re: Sensei Sizing Question - Noob alert!
Post by: mb on March 08, 2020, 08:34:51 pm

Hi @Pocket_Sevens,

Not necessarily. Sensei guide recommends HW taking into account both memory and cpu together to match a WAN speed and number of users. Since WAN speed generally is more related to how fast the CPU is and number of users is more related to the amount of memory since more users will create more data to index/query.

If this is a home setup with small number of devices (<50) i5 3GHz cpu should provide around 600Mbps WAN bw. 

Sensei is very easy to install and give it a try. You can try and see in a matter of minutes. Feel free to reach out to the team (Report Bug/Contact Team menu on the upper right hand side) if you encounter issues.