Best UTM for home use

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Looking for some opinions on what people are doing for UTM at home. Trying to figure out what's effective at home without the enterprise costs or administration. I currently use pfsense. Looking for something https://nox.tips/ with better features and reporting. 
 thanks!

BAlfson · Answer

Hi and welcome to the UTM Community! 
 Vivek gave you a link to the Home Edition for the Sophos Firewall (XG). His link gives you the limitations on what you can buy to run the XG Home Edition. 
 For home use, you will not want to buy a Sophos appliance for either XG or UTM. 
 For the UTM Home Edition, the limitation is the number of IPs, 50. The faster your internet connection, the faster you will want your CPU to be. Depending on the number of simultaneous users, a very fast dual-core might be a better choice than a not-as-fast quad-core. A good reference would be the more-recent posts in the *Unofficial* Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) . 
 Cheers - Bob

alan weir · Answer

One device that is quite popular with the router/firewalls is the Qotom fanless PCs with the Intel I211-AT Gigabit NIC network. These devices are ready to go and require no additional hardware unless you get one barebones. www.amazon.com/.../B01N0H62A1 
 Others use embedded SoC motherboards like what you'd get from mini-box.com/Jetwaycomputer.com 
 Still others like me are using the UTM home edition with a full size PC with older dual/quad core CPUs that function well as a firewall as long as it is using a "server grade" Intel NIC. 
 I run the Sophos UTM with a Sophos access point that integrates right into the firewall and can be setup and administered from within the UTM. Most home users still recommend the Sophos UTM over the XG due to ease of use but the XG is in active development while the UTM's future is uncertain. 
 The UTM/XG have what pfsense doesn't and that is a fully functional web filter and antivirus scanning with AVIRA, and a biult-in IPS. Logging is also comprehensive especially on the UTM. The administration guides, at least for the UTM is incredible.

Vivek Jagad · Answer

Hello zek grafic , Thank you for reaching out to the community, all the overview, features & limitations are mentioned here: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/free-tools/sophos-xg-firewall-home-edition

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