Not sure if I should go with pfsense (cost is free) or pay for Untangle Home Plus (need to have WAN failover)
Only other things I would want is AD blocking and GEO-IP blocking. I have used pfsense in the past, but was wondering if giving Untangle a whirl is worth its added price tag?
I have run both pfsense and untangle home plus as well as opnsense. If you like to control and log everything it’s for you. You can do that with pfsense or opnsense but not as easily as untangle.
Thanks Tom. I have already viewed that video and found it very informative. I understand pfsense requires more work than untangle, so is that the only difference? (I.e. my comfort level about learning/troubleshooting vs paying for ‘ease of use’?)
Intel i3 7100U may be overkill for your network. I would install xcp-ng and then a firewall virtual machine with some docker images for AD blocking and other services.