24 Port Switch and PFSense Firewall

[Viz]

Hi all,
Thanks for taking time to look into my post, I appreciate your time, I have a small office that I have so far used 2 wireless routers and wireless adapters to connect to internet from our 10 PC's and now I wanted to implement domain and server, I am getting the lan wiring done, need your help with a 24 port switch, can you please suggest that will get the job done for us.

Also is there a possibility that we can buy / build a firewall, I am not expert at networking but was watching about pfsense, thought it would be great to implement it for my office, please suggest.

Thank you again.

-Sri

 

[rajil.s]

For pfsense get a Supermicro A1Sri-2758F (C2758 chipset motherboard). It is a very capable board.

For switch I suggest using an Ubiquiti switch (https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-2448/)

 

[vivek.krishnan]

If on a budget, look up in Aliexpress, you get Celeron/Pentium variants with 4 LAN ports which do the job well for SOHO.

Switch, we have used Netgear, DLink, I would suggest to get a smart switch. We use Netgear, but that is because we plan to add optical connectivity as well.

 

[Viz]

Thanks for your time, will look into this

 

[rajil.s]

For cheap devices lookout for AES-NI support as it is going to be mandatory in future pfsense releases.