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I've been really happy with buying a ~$200 mini PC and putting OPNsense on it. You just have to make sure it has two Ethernet ports. OpenWRT is another great option if you don't have the money for that.
That sounds really cool. Any idea for a low powered (as in doesn't draw a lot of power) OPNsense option?
A NanoPI with OpenWRT (there is a variant that NanoPIs have that is called FriendlyWRT, but don't use that, it sucks), they have an ARM CPU so the power usage is low. My NanoPI R5C can reach up to 600Mbit/s (up/down) with SQM enabled (Smart Queue Management, to keep your latency down on high network usage), and 800Mbit/s with something called Hardware offloading.