Anyone here made their own router?

[pezz]

Has anyone here ever tried making there own router or firewall?

[Flexx17]

Has anyone here ever tried making there own router or firewall?

using pfsense with an old pc a year ago yes.... it wasnt hard from the guide i followed

[khat17]

Same as above. Not build from scratch using electronics and PCB though. Not that epic.

[gW33Zy]

I you want the real DIY way you checkout http://hackaday.com/ they have lots of these kind of projects on there.

[Rx]

An older PC (nothing older than a core2duo class cpu because of power consumption) + 2 or more Network Cards + pfSense + Ubiquiti's AP AC-lite = Routing and Wireless performance that no consumer router will match. Not to mention the features of pfSense!

[pezz]

Thanks everyone. So how was the experience with pfSense?

[Flexx17]

The connection was way more stable than using my consumer router at the time, just way more stable up and downstream especially there was alot of network traffic. The front end was simple and easy to use, not to mention extensive.

[pezz]

The connection was way more stable than using my consumer router at the time, just way more stable up and downstream especially there was alot of network traffic. The front end was simple and easy to use, not to mention extensive.

So you saying I wasted my money buying an Asus router T_T

Can this pfsense run on atom processors or any embedded cpu?

[topanaris]

Pfsense was good, by far the most stable was IP COP.

[Flexx17]

So you saying I wasted my money buying an Asus router T_T

Can this pfsense run on atom processors or any embedded cpu?

yes it should run on pretty much any x86 architecture. and naa not wasted, you will still need something to act as an Access point, thats where that router will come in