I got a box I desire to setup as the router/firewall from my dsl modem as the firewalls built into it appear to be slow down. So I’d like to halt them totally and have a black box do the work for me and provide as the router for my home network. Now, I've finished something like this before back in the day, using IPCOP and remembered it was very useful. Just wanting to get some suggestions since I’ve been out of the loop on this "market" for some time now 5-6 years and I’m positive there is some fresh "go to" distro for this. Some things I’m seem for as well a essential firewall though is the skill to QoS. I have only a 3Mb dsl connection. Whenever the wife choose to hop on Netflix it really disturb my ping in online gaming (wow, global agenda) and I’ve heard that this QoS is what i "need". To be honest i know almost zero about it. some Google and wiki hunt guide me in circles concerning what it is. But nothing in exacting about how to allow or setup such services. I'm essentially speculated if there is a distro that has this type of functionality in either an simple to use desktop interface or through terminal/browser remotely.
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