Hey @mrmarkuz,
You’re welcome. Before I burn down my lab, let me know if you’d like me to give you the VMs. I could put them on my G Drive.
I didn’t explain some other features but I’ll do so now. They’re all easy to implement.
btw, I’m a Linux person. OPNsense uses FreeBSD. To me though, UNIX is UNIX. I think you understand what I mean by that … 
Cheers!
-pablo
Multiple WAN HA Strategies
While no home is allowed to share their Internet connection, I tested the ability to create Active-Passive Multi-WAN support per home.
For example, suppose my geeky neighbor is geek 1 and I’m geek 2, I can create the following two HA solutions:
- GEEK_1 FAILS_TO GEEK_2
- GEEK_2 FAILS_TO GEEK_1
As expected, the policy for failure can be loss of link, loss of packets, latency. I cannot recall whether it’s and/or. As you can see, it’s quite deluxe.
I did create a default HA for the wireless infrastructure. It Load Balances between my geeky neighbor and me.
Backup and Restore
The backup file is an XML file. As I set up my lab exactly as Production, it was extremely easy to install the software and get up to speed. The only tweaking I did was change the Interface driver names in the file: eth0 => igb0, etc.
Backups to the Cloud
I believe backing up to the cloud is a newish NS feature. I like that OPNsense also has it.
Whizzy Search
With so many options, there’s a search bar in the upper right of the screen. As you start typing, potential matches show up. Rather than navigating through a myriad of menus, sub-menus, sub-sub-menus, you can jump right to where you need to be.
Compact/Detailed Nav Bar
The left nav bar easily collapses to icons. Leaving you more real estate. It’s easy to expand. However I don’t because of the whizzy search.
Cheers,
-pablo