I currently run pfSense for the past couple years or so and was planning to migrate to a Linux distro for my home network (I've seen the Ars guide to build ...

OPNsense is a fork of pfSense, which in turn is a fork of the FreeBSD firewall software m0n0wall. pfSense took what made m0n0wall so good and dialed it up further to create an excellent, robust ...

Hard to research this, given the unique combination of requirements I have. Bufferbloat has been major problem with the extremely asynchronous cable connection I have (300/5) from Charter. Saturate ...

Linux is highly secure, but you should still have a firewall. You should know if your ISP's hardware (gateway) uses a firewall. One of the easiest Linux firewalls is UFW and its GUI sidekick, GUFW.