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Thanks.  I hadn't heard of Silver Peak.  Looking on Ebay, I don't see any mention of 10G ports nor SFP+ ports however.

Thank you for the long, interesting, but somewhat depressing link to Wireguard problems on OPNsense.  I had no idea there was such a difference between performance on OPNsense and pfSense+.

1. Is there any real hope that the optimized Intel libraries will ever work in OPNsense, or that the speed discrepancy can be eliminated?
2. Do you happen to know if OPNsense Wireguard performance still typically beats IPsec for site-to-site VPN connections?

Thanks!

Both homes have 1G fiber to the home.  One ISP uses PPPoE.  The other uses DHCP.  I don't really know the bandwidth.  I just want to be future proofed.  I do share my PLEX servers with family members across the internet.  It's quite common for two people in the same house to be streaming at the same time.  I also have one NAS that makes backups across the internet to my second NAS every day of the week.  I also transfer Blu-ray movie rips between NAS boxes across the internet.  I want my site-to-site VPN to function as fast as possible.  Both NAS boxes also get every other day backups from the PCs in my homes.

Budget is fluid.  I have to build or buy two mini PCs so I'd like to keep each purchase less than about $700.  The actual price will depend a lot on the current pricing of RAM, which is still ridiculous.  I obviously won't have 10G service from my ISP, but I'd like to upgrade my local networks to 10G.  Do I absolutely need that, no.  But we do stream a lot of movies from our local NAS servers and sometimes across the internet from a remote NAS.  We do have a fair amount of 4K movies to stream.  We're in the PLEX eco system for all of our media.  Plus, I work remotely and want the fastest site-to-site VPN, internet download speeds, etc.

I've been running pfSense for many years on mini PCs.  I'm thinking about upgrading my two home networks to at least 2.5G, and probably 10G.  I think I'm also going to switch to OPNsense.  Both home networks are currently connected with an IPsec site-to-site VPN.  When I upgrade, I plan on switching to wireguard.  Each home network has multiple APs, a NAS and several PCs.  Both homes have 1G fiberoptic WAN connections.  I also plan on creating VLANs on both networks, which I currently  do not have.  I'd like to stay with mini PCs if possible.

What would you consider the minimum CPU to get?  Is the Alder Lake-N150 adequate?  Should I get better?  Thanks!

P.S. I wouldn't mind mini PC suggestions either.  I've looked at the "official" OPNsense options.  I currently have Qotom, but want 10G connections.