lack of support for opnsense hardware

[Vesalius]

not thanks.  my clients..either home or business are not used by me to beta test my vendors products.  I now know the release policy of OpNSense..lesson learned..:)

all the more reason to do your homework and know your vendors release model. OPNsense, Proxmox many others use this public release and followed months behind by a business release model. For companies that don't or can't stay in business charging enterprise markups, most opensource type software with a free variant, this is a valid model to use.

[JamesFrisch]

5k was the threshold mentioned..5k

I tough that was a typo, because you mentioned spending 1,5k on OPNsese.

i understand now the software is effectively unsupported now without additional cost.

Yeah...  You could have known that. I mean you are not new to this whole IT game, as a long time Dell partner years ahead of me  ::)