Question

What do you think about this firewall? Would this actually provide my system with better security? We are almost done doing a smart home remodel and had and intergrater install control4 and the network is running on arakins hardware.  
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/...nNc#/

Answer 1

For the ordinary home user software firewalls are good enough if ur concerned about connecting into ur company network from home they should really be providing a Cisco secure vpn tunnel or else a watch guard the Average home doesn’t need a hardware firewall

Answer 2

What is your threat model?  

Answer 3

This is just a marked up qotom box on AliExpress. You can achieve the same using pfsense for half the cost no? I bought a 6 port i5 box which came preloaded.  
http://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_sHRkt6

Answer 4

I use a VMware based pfsense, I have a dell r610 with 6 nics and I asigned 3 to pfsense, 2 wan and 1 lan, couple of vlans in the internal

Answer 5

Dave Henk. thoughts about this?  

Answer 6

If you spend your money on a better router, you will get many of these features for free as part of the router.  

Answer 7

This is silly. Buy a Mikrotik Hap AC2 get a raspberry Pi. Spend less than $100 and get everything you need.  

Answer 8

UniFi USG. Simple, fast and secure.  

Answer 9

I agree on the Unifi. Additionally it integrates with their APs and switches for single pane of glass management.  

Answer 10

I will stick to pfsense

Answer 11

No point in investing in some startup when there are lots of router /firewalls on the market that are proven to work and better priced

Answer 12

Several good suggestions here. I personally use a Ubiquity EdgeRouter X. Five fully configurable ports and it’s about $50. Rock-solid firewall.  

Answer 13

Buy UniFi Dream Machine. All in one, perfect balance between security, speed, scalability and price (299)

Comments

Whomever designed a "dream machine" in the Unifi line and didn't include PoE should be fired.  

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@olly12 Welch agree for dream machine pro. the regular one is just a router form factor and in most cases doesn’t need additional AP’s

Answer 14

Especially if you want to integrate other smart home systems in the future, or just to experiment a little bit more, I recommend to run pfsense/opnsense/etc as VM, as others already pointed out. I use pfsense on a proxmox host + other VMs / containers: pihole as DNS based content filter, Unifi controller software, Node-RED, OpenHAB, fhem, tvheadend for SAT-TV recording, DLNA server to watch media on TVs, Samba-Server to have a NAS and much more and all of this on a 15W TDP ITX board (Asrock J4205). Works like a charm and is much more energy efficient than having dozens of small devices.  

Answer 15

Been really happy with Untangle over the past few years. $50/yr home user pricing for all enterprise features, including web categorization, TLS interception, IDS/IDP, layer 7 application controls, etc. Complete overkill for the 99%.  
https://www.untangle.com/

Answer 16

As several have said, Ubiquiti will cost you less and likely work better. It'll also share a control interface with their wifi APs. This thing is just a little industrial PC running who-knows-what (i. e., can you trust it to be really secure? ). You can achieve what this does with a suitable PC and Sophos XG, Untangle or pfSense but be warned, those require quite a bit of technical knowledge, especially pfSense. I built one with Sophos XG Home for GBP150-odd.