Good evening,
I was wondering whether there are any plans regarding a HW refresh of the EdgeRouter Lite or any other of the 'end-user' / home models in regards to their CPU performance.
I am wondering because while my ERLite works fine in 'basic' router mode for my 500mbit line, its more advanced features like DPI or QoS are however unusable - if turned on, the performance drops waaay down.
While I could jump onto the EdgeRouter Pro or so product line, what really bothers me with these are their size, power consumption and also active fan(s) and well - I don't want to buy a 19" rack either. I could also get a low tdp / passively cooled atom machine and slap PfSense on there, but I'd rather not do that either.
I like my ERLite for exactly these reasons, easy to configure, power efficient and silent.. but as it has been out a couple of years now and its CPU (I assume) has been a bit outgrown for some customers with (half) Gigabit lines and that's why I am wondering whether there are plans for a soho/home ERLite 2 or so that might be able to use its sw features with "todays" (for some lucky of us obviously) line speeds.
Does anyone know / heard of any such plans?
Cheers and thanks,
-J