Ryan, That board should handle almost anything a comcast link will throw at it. I don't think it can do 1GB routing, but should be plenty powerful enough for 10/100. It doesn't take a lot to do routing/filtering. 500Mhz should be great. ==>brian. On 12/28/2010 08:58 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > Whoa, that board might be TOO under powered... What I was thinking was something with a physical drive in it... that would be, eventually, replaced with an SSD. > > If I can add the wireless itself TOO it, great! Now they can update the password more often and do it from home. It's not that I'm against the Compact Flash idea - I'm a sports photographer by current trade and have really good use for 32GB CF cards. :) > > But I'm looking at it. Thanks for the info! > > On Dec 28, 2010, at 8:46 AM, Erik Mitchell wrote: > >> Check out PFSense (http://www.pfsense.org/). It's a firewall/router >> distribution based on FreeBSD. You can run it on a regular PC or on >> embedded systems. I've used this board several times: >> http://www.mini-box.com/Alix-2B-Board-3-LAN-3-MINI-PCI_4?sc=8&category=1361 >> and have been very happy with what it can do. >> >> PFSense is going to give you every opportunity to manage the traffic >> going through it. I'm not sure how hard it would be to get the result >> you want, but I know it's possible. I have a couple of friends (one >> who is on this list) who have done more with pfsense than I have and >> would probably be able to answer questions more in depth. >> >> -Erik >> >> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Ryan Coleman<ryanjcole at me.com> wrote: >>> I have a colleague that owns a coffee shop and he gives his customers Comcast's fastest internet (he's a really nice guy). >>> >>> But he's got some clients who leech him to share movies and TV shows and he's been getting between 10-30 letters per week from Comcast about these shares. He's spent many hundreds of dollars on wifi routers to try and filter without any luck. >>> >>> I'm thinking a micro computer with dual NICs and running everything through a firewall to filter out and/or monitor traffic. What are you your recommendations? I'm a FreeBSD person by history but I build webservers, not filter/monitor firewalls. >>> >>> I'm not against new OSes, either, just be prepared for to give some guiding advice from time to time. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ryan Coleman >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Erik K. Mitchell -- Web Developer >> erik.mitchell at gmail.com >> erik at ekmitchell.com >> http://ekmitchell.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list