I'd really like to see a Networking Basics Series for the uninitiated, that would be sweet as hell.

In a way Wendell leaving tek syndicate was the best thing that could happen for both parties involved

I love these videos! Please make more of them, in particular I would love to see a video about VLANs!

Man, these are the kind of projects I need to be setting up, thank you again Wendell.

This is Awesome! It could very well be one of my projects I do over the uni break. Nice quality video by the way. Whoever is organising the filming obviously knows what they're doing. Good lighting, nice shots, DOF looks great. Well done.

YOU!!!!!!!! Are the reason I watched TS. Glad to see you have your own channel now!

I can already tell this is the tech channel I wanted to see emerge. Early stage and the formula is flying! I'm actually going to go to the forums it has precipitated that much enthusiasm.

This was awesome mate, you turned me into pfsense couple of years ago its nice to see you coming back to it and finally doing a full setup video on it :) I see great vids coming ,keep it up !

Am I the only one who notices how this essentially *IS* Tek Syndicate? Kinda interesting... Seems like Wendell was indeed most if TS.

Thank You, Wendell this is what I came for I love this techiness stuff.

Just gotta say Wendell, I am absolutely loving your content. Great to see you still making videos! Keep up the great work and I would LOVE to see more about pfSense, freeNAS, etc. Server stuff is awesome!

I seriously can't thank you guys enough. My pfSense router has been great, and I wouldn't even know pfSense existed if it weren't for you guys. Thank you.

I think you did a great job explaining pfSense compared to other channels. It wasn't overly technical but not overly general. Encourages learning I think.

A video on SNORT would be super awesome.

One of the first videos released when you went on ur own, and you are allready punping out high quality content. This is a clear sign that you are going werry much in the right direction! Job well done!!! Hope to se much more of this type of content.

Man, level 1 is the best channel to learn about computing in depth

The little chuckles through the video are the best part. ^_^ I love you Wendell. Thank you for sticking to making videos and wading through all the bullshit. Stay strong.

I work at Sears Auto Center... It's time for a new career. I always wanted to do IT but I never went to school due to my jobs being "good enough"... thanks Wendell, for the inspiration.

I have been using pfsense for some time now and I really want more in depth content on the subject. I think that you guys are heading in the right direction.

Just on time after I order all mi part for my new pfSense build. I literally order all my part yesterday on Newegg without knowing that this video it was to come up today. Perfect timing. Thank for the video Wendell.

this is exactly what we want to see here, keep up the amazing work!

More networking projects, more virtualization projects, more Linux projects!!

Damn, I've missed this kind of content. I'm behind you all the way!

Keep it up Level1 team! I'm loving your channel so far. And of course, it's great to see Wendell again 😊

Now THIS is the kind of stuff I want to see. Thanks for the great videos!

Quality video, good editing with top b roll. Well done wendell

I'm already loving the tone and format of all of the content so far. This is great!

This is the channel that many people, myself included have been wating for! Can finally learn how to do stuff like this rather than just seeing the final result!

+1 for upcoming VLAN video! I've been running pfsense for a few years now and last year picked up a managed switch to experiment with VLANs, but I'm still lost as to how to set them up correctly.

FINALLY!!!!! I NEEDED A NEW VERSION OF THIS!

I could listen to this guy talk all day. Nerding out completely! Great job!

I'm so glad to see Wendell and Co making their own videos. Great content so far, keep it up!

This is exactly the type of content I love!

Great tutorial and intro to pfsense!

I love pfSense, I had used ClearOS (aka ClarkConnect) since 2004 till this year. pfSense is so easy to use and does everything I need. My setup is quite simple, cable modem, pfSense system, unmanaged switch and a wireless router. The modem, switch and wireless router are all setup in some sort of "dumb" mode, the unmanaged switch has no settings at all, the wireless router is set to access point, and the modem has no settings. Everything is controlled by pfSense, port forwarding, DHCP, firewall, content filter... everything for your network in one place. My favorite feature, IP address by MAC, I didn't list your MAC then you get no IP. I live in a townhome and when my ClearOS machine was list an IP with an unknown MAC I ended switching to psSense. Yes, ClearOS can do that, but ClearOS uses command line for more technical setups, pfSense is way easier.

Used pfSense at our apt in college. Had it setup to a VPN, bandwidth shaping, along with caching. Awesome video!

Always loved the content Wendell puts out. I feel like you can improve the production value of the video if you pad the walls, try and get rid of that audio echo.

Great stuff, Wendell et al.

This couldn't have had better timing- I've been thinking about doing this all week. Thank you!

It's great to have you back Wendell.

Liking every video you post so hopefully more people will come to you! Can you do a video on connecting two wireless APs and do node balancing and wireless handoff between them? I can't quite figure out how to do it myself.

Yesss, love my pfsense box.

I'm so glad to see you producing content, Wendell. I've been a huge fan of yours ever since the original PfSense router video (I think that's when I first found Tek Syndicate). I think I was watching an older Hak5 pfsense video when I saw a the Tek Syndicate video in the "recommendations" section, and was amazed that it had like 60k views while the hak5 video only had a few thousand. I was super skeptical at first, and was frantically fact-checking everything you were saying, and every darn time you were 100% correct. I did the same fact-checking throughout some of The Tek videos and realized that you actually knew what you were talking about. Honestly, I thought the channel was yours initially, and just had a front-man as a host for the program because it made things easier, or your wished to remain anonymous, etc., but over time I just couldn't watch the videos without you in them. I seriously cannot express how happy I am to have you producing content on your own channel, of stuff other than gaming, graphics cards, and benchmarks, and "Build a $2600 rig!" videos, but rather producing content which helps the next generation, myself included, understand the versatility of today's tech. I'm not exactly financially stable right now, but you have my word that I'll be donating to the Patreon as soon as I get my finances in order. Thanks for sticking around for the community Wendell, and the rest of the L1 team. (P.S. Would love to see some videos with Darren Kitchen or Samy Kamkar discussing security, or possibly guest-hosting DTNS with Tom Merrit. Darren [hak5] and Samy have smaller youtube audiences, but have made serious contributions in the realm of security. Tom Merrit is also a great host, and brings on technical experts to explain the politics of the "tech world", and has brings a lot to the table in terms of differing opinions and interesting discussion.)

I built a router based on this video, it’s still a beast.

Wendell - please set the shutter speed on your camera to 1/(frame rate * 2) or as close you can get - e.g. if shooting at 30fps use 1/60. It will make the video appear less "jerky" and more natural to the viewer. Otherwise, enjoying the content!

For my home setup I have Pfsense running as a VM with a dedicated WAN NIC on a ESXI server connected to my ISP modem. Virtualization of pfSense is fun too! Just as stable as my old Pc pfsense build I use to use. BTW This is just like TEK but better. Wendell is here and it is all tek!!

I think I have learned more from this KZfaq channel in the past months than any other since I started on KZfaq over a decade ago.

I don't usually post in comments anywhere but I really enjoyed Wendells time from Tek Syndicate. My Current PFSense setup - i5-3470 - 16GB RAM - 128GB SSD - 2 Dual Port Intel NIC's WAN setup with PPPoE and a static IP. I have a fiber connection to the house with 250Mbps Down and 100Mbps - Download speeds improved dramatically and I can download games and play or have multiple streams going and still playing games and there is not a single issue with the connection. The plugins are a must especially Snort, Web Caching and the Proxy services available. I then use a Asus AC router in AP mode for Wireless in the house. I will never move away from this sort of setup. Fast and provides a never ending learning pool. Thanks very much for continuing to put this sort of content out there, if not for folks like you I would never learn anything new. :-)

Thanks for the informative video as always!

Very cool! Networking is fantastic~

Guys, great job with the channel! I am seriously loving this. And, spot on with this production. You hit all the key points and made some great suggestions! This is the content I recommend to others, as I have enjoyed it so. Thank you.

Good to see the best part of Tek Syndicate up and running cheers Wendel.

FUCK YES! I took a old P4 computer that was being tossed out and now run it as a router. My store bought shit Linksys was so overtaxed by torrents that it would just give up and stop working until it was reset. I tried PFSense but HOLY SHIT the amount of things available to configure were insane. Now I run Untangle and it does what I need.

AWESOME!!! MORE!!!

Thank you Wendel! This video was extremely helpful. Please keep the pfSense advance videos coming!

+Level1Techs I love these videos and look forward to more of the Pfsense videos and many more types of videos. Good to see you back on you tube keep up the great work!!!!

This is WHY I subsribed to this channel FUCKING AWESOME

Wendell you are best!

The more content on this channel that I watch the better it seems to get.

The old pfSense video was how I found Tek Syndicate in the first place how ever many years ago. Nice to see a pfSense video from Wendell.

More enterprise networking videos would be awesome!

Thank you for making this, I'm currently putting together my own build this will be very useful!

Thank You, Wendell. Thank You, Wendell. Thank You, Wendell. Thank You, Wendell. Thank You, Wendell. Thank You, Wendell. Thank You, Wendell. Thank You, Wendell. Thank You, Wendell. Thank You, Wendell. Thank You, Wendell. Thank You, Wendell. Seriously, thank you for this. Been itching to get into PfSense and had a SFF 2500K collecting dust until I got the time to start. I wanted something more robust when re-designing the home and home office network. Please Please PLEASE continue these videos, especially on your favorite plug-ins.

Good Stuff!

it runs like Greased Lightning !

I would love to see more content like this. May these in depth setup guides some day bring us to the level of Wendell.

I really liked the bit at 17:00 with the dings. Quite nice. Great job Level1...keep it up.

We need a new PFSense video please!

Heeeeeeee's Back!!!!!!!!

been using pfsense for years on some netgate boxes but have barely touched what it can do. keep these videos coming.

This is so FREAKING COOL! This has inspired me to re-purpose some old components I have lying around and delve a little deeper into routing!

Will pfSense detect when your business partner is about to go full blown mental and take down the forums you setup?

An easy way to take the plunge is to install pfsense on a laptop you seldom use (You can install it along side Windows fairly easily if you know anything about disk partitioning), then just plugging a USB to Ethernet adapter to serve as your second interface. This is not the route (no pun intended) to go if you're looking for performance as USB simply isn't cut out for intense networking, but it works fabulously on a small network. Also, make sure there is a FreeBSD driver available for you model of adapter as not all of them are supported: www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/hardware.html#ETHERNET

the pf sense router video we deserve! not 3 20 minute videos of linus breaking things. easy and clear to follow, I know what my Lil junker pc is going to be doing soon!

Fantastic Video!!! I've been thinking about a home made router for a while and now I can do it. Look forward to future videos especially configuring separate wireless and lan. Snort and the other intrusion detection will be most appreciated as well. Finally a video on how to check that you have configured everything properly so that nothing is left wide open accidentally. Thanks.

I'm sorry but I have no other words for this other than the following: This is the shit! Excellent video.

Well now I just feel like a dumbass for getting that Linksys WRT1900ACS when I have a low power AMD A4 box literally doing nothing.

Love it. Glad to see you back wendell!

Awesome video, been threatening to build a router now for ages as I have loads of spare bits from other builds now. Thanks for reminding me.

Great stuff - planning on doing this once I can find an actually-decent modem :/

øhhhhhh just had a nerdgasm, thanks wendell :D

Level1tech crew thank you soooo much for the content you're putting out. Absolutely amazing content which teaches me new things everytime!

Wendell! I've always been a huge fan of your work and I have to say that this video was excellent in every way. You bring out my childish enthusiasm and giddiness with technology. Good luck with future projects.

wow already more vids than logan

Year 2021...this is still useful or do we have better routers to buy?

nice series...keep this one up... actually im happy with the split as now finally real content and quality comes over i care to watch

This channel is well underrated. Good job guys!

Can this topic be revisited in 2022??

if only hillary could have watched this video before setting up her mail server

great video Wendell! Good to see you again I have missed your videos!

Awesome break down Wendall; just finished my FREENAS project, and was looking into a better router solution for the home until I ran into this video. Looks like I am going to be under the BSD hood again. Thanks for the info!

pc router master race

Can you set up pfSense to cache everything to a freeNAS system?

Great video. Perfect pace, properly condensed information, perfect length, etc. Really got me going from zero to on my own with my router project. Thankssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!

Thank you for this video! I hope you guys will make more videos of pfSense and also FreeNAS ... since those topics are a great interest of mine and we're all here to learn more stuff! Thank you for your time and consideration!

Dem Russain hackers doe

Can you run pfSense on a stock router? And hey, can you block windows updates with this?

GOD DAMN I AM GLAD TO SEE THIS TYPE OF CONTENT AGAIN, THANK YOU BASED WENDELL.

This is a great introduction video to pfSense, I really hope you will make more of these. Also I'm interested in learning about SSH. I am really looking forward for the good content this channel will make.

i dont know why but i want to buy a quad cpu motherboard and get 4 of the 22 core xeons, then build one of these.