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theprez1980
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Newbie Here - Will this hardware be sufficient for Gig Speed?
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June 25, 2020, 03:20:40 am »
Hi Gang!
First, let me say I'm a newbie to OpnSense - prevously used PFSense and currently have Untangle in my home. I plan to use OpnSense for my home for content filtering among other things.
I'm curious what the hardware recommendations are for OpnSense and the Sensei filtering plug in I was reading about?
Will my Intel i5 with 4GB RAM and 1TB be sufficient for my 1Gig WAN speed?
I plan to have the box perform:
DNS
DHCP
Content filtering
Reporting
Captive Portal
to name a few.
Thanks =)
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Flyinace2000
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Re: Newbie Here - Will this hardware be sufficient for Gig Speed?
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June 25, 2020, 06:58:44 pm »
Which i5?
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Dell i5-4570, 8GB, Intel i350-T4
nzkiwi68
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Re: Newbie Here - Will this hardware be sufficient for Gig Speed?
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June 26, 2020, 01:54:12 am »
Highly likely it will be.
I'm using an i5 processor;
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Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz (4 cores)
I have gigabit internet and I'm happy it.
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russella
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Re: Newbie Here - Will this hardware be sufficient for Gig Speed?
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June 27, 2020, 12:45:05 pm »
I use an i5 4670K with 8GB RAM. My Internet service is rated at 900Mbps (up and down) and I use IDS/IPS with about 40,000 rules but no VPN. I can get 900+ with CPU load peaking at around 2.8. As it's a 4 core cpu you can divide that by 4 so that leaves plenty in reserve.
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