I recently replaced my home pfSense router, previously a Zotac CI323, with a Qotom Q355G4. While the Zotac was never a bad machine as a router, it wasn’t great, and as my needs began to expand, so too did my issues. I frequently experienced a complete failure of the WAN link, only solved by rebooting, and when running Suricata, a saturated WAN link meant a quick performance degradation to the point where I completely lost internet access and could not access the pfSense web interface or SSH. Read More