Good cheap hardware firewall

alidan · Oct 16, 2016

Ok, I need a firewall between my computer and my router, well, I will need one soon, I refuse to trust a software firewall, and my router makes it as obnoxiously hard to firewall something if it's even possible.

Anyone able to help?

Shaun o · Oct 16, 2016

Why do you need to buy a hardware firewall, where most routers come with a hardware firewall built into them.
Have you not thought about using the routers hardware firewall alidan.

nigelivey · Oct 16, 2016

Either make one out of anew old pc, may be power hungry or buy a pre-made one from pcengines. Pfsense distribution run on either will do fine.

alidan · Oct 16, 2016

Shaun o :

I'm using an edge router x, I tried to filter a website by ip address, and it just would not filter, so I either have to use cli to do so which I have literally no idea what I would be doing, or get something to go in between me and the router. I honestly want to avoid putting a second router in between if possible because i bought the edge router specifically to get away the absolute crap like asus and belkin I had before.

Only Issues I have with the router are seeing a live view of the data use is kind of crap because it scales depending on the peak opposed to what your connection is able to do, and it's firewalling capabilities which as far as I know are non existent. my old asus could filter based on domain name, this router will only filter based on ip outside of cli (not even 100% if in cli it will filter domain) and even then i'm either or incompetent to set up the filter or it doesn't do it... either one of them could be the case.

jsmithepa · Oct 16, 2016

Aware of 2 things:

If your current ISP-supplied Gateway box does NAT and can't be turn off, then a hardware firewall will double-NAT, this maybe an issue if you run/will run torrent.

Build one yourself as mentioned with a PC, or an Internet Appliance from SonicWall, Zyxel and others, usd$150+, they do not instantly give you a super friendly, idiot proof interface. These equipment, while better than CLI, do assume you have better knowledge than your street Joe home user.

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