If you’re tired of buying hardware that keeps giving out after a year or two, you might want to build your own pfSense router. Routers that run pfSense (official website) are more robust and reliable ...

HI! I'm Elliot Alexander, a London-based Computer Scientist with a background in software engineering. I've worked across the security and high-performance computing space, and am experienced in all ...

As I've started to build up a little home lab, I've been playing around with the idea of either building or buying a PC to run pfsense on and use as my primary (edge?) router. That is, I would run my ...

This morning, WireGuard founding developer Jason Donenfeld announced a working, in-kernel implementation of his WireGuard VPN protocol for the FreeBSD 13 kernel. This is great news for BSD folks—and ...

Through the years, I've used all sorts of router and firewall solutions at home and at work. For home networks, I usually recommend something like DD-WRT, OpenWRT or Tomato on an off-the-shelf router.

Do you remember when you purchased your Wi-Fi router? Probably not. If you're like most people, you likely got it from your ISP some years ago. Here's another question: when was the last time you ...

Even after a herculean amount of effort by Wireguard’s founder, Jason Donenfeld and developers Kyle Evans and Matt Dunwoodie, WireGuard will not be included in the upcoming release of FreeBSD 13.0.

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...