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The setup I put up at my family home with 1.4 Gbps / 35 Mbps Comcast Xfinity service : MODEM: Netgear CAX80 ROUTER: SuperMicro AMD EPYC 3251 (55W) System (pFsense 2.5.2) with an Intel X710-T2L Dual Port 10 Gbe NBase-T card. AP: Netgear RAX120 & Netgear RAXE500 (phasing out and switching to Orbi AXE) SWITCH: Zyxel XS1930-10 NAS: Netgear ReadyNAS 524X | I bought and put together the AMD 1U box hoping to setup a server rack at some point and running VMs along side pFsense for myself and my father on VMWare ESXI but never got to it, so it’s just an overkill router right now lol. At my apartment I have Verizon Fios 300/300 Plan with an RAXE500. Planning on getting a tiny mini pc / box to run pFsense. The Netgear stuff was given to me for beta testing and so just accumulated them. That’s the only reason for having high end routers as APs lol. @Custom90gtAre you using pfblockerng and ntopng packages in pfSense? If not, greatly recommend both.

Nice too see all the users' gaming options, might have to try some of those that you guys have mentioned so far. For me: Tactical Strategy: Total War Series especially Rome II and Napoleon, love fielding thousands of troops and the realism with morale, ie fear etc, troops running away from battle and so on. WW2 or modern equivalent to it for me would be the old Close Combat Series especially IV/V, first game I saw where enemy troops actually surrender and vehicles could break down/run out of fuel, and these days Men of War - Assault Squad 2 and Call to Arms. For space age strategy I love Homeworld 2 and it’s Star Wars mod. Grand Strategy: Probably Hearts of Iron IV (WW2), Guess Total War also fits here as it's a hybrid game series. Semi Realistic FPS: Squad, Red Orchestra 2 (WW2 Eastern Front), Rising Storm Vietnam after trying those, Battlefield series now seems too cartoonish for me, ie no shell deflection mechanic in tank to tank combat and the combat in general. Still not bad either though. For twichfest type games I'd say Unreal Tournament or Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005) both of which had tons of amazing mods, were my favorites. My first foray into FPS was probably Medal of Honor on Sony Playstation. @Custom90gt, I too spent countless hours on BFII lol in college, along side Battlefront II, Red Orchestra (at the time a UT2K4 mod) lol. AOE1/2 were also childhood favs, before I discovered Total War.

Aside from the cost I think another key reason is there is time jump of like 30 years in the books, so they'd either have to recast, or age the current charcters digitally. Was good ending though and a nice place to to do so, timeline wise. Lot of options though these days between dark and light, even in terms of new shows. This thread could be a great way to discover some, if we get more input.

Then definitely take a look at the Expanse! I personally liked it much better. Never played any of the Witcher games but I do love the show.

The first Book was released in 1996 and Benihoff didn’t reach out to JRR with an idea for a show till like 2006 by which time 4 books were out, so not sure I’d call him a TV writer. Plus the show does deviate from the books. While others did approach him as well he didn’t consider the books even filmable at one time due the scope as it likely would be watered down too much.

I’m not sure GoT is much like Tolkiens work. GoT is more of geopolitics wrapped in fantasy, and actually taking inspiration from the War of Roses era of England. Also deals with things like myth/legends vs reality and how stories/history can be distorted over time and by whose telling them, there’s a lot of layers you’re missing in GoT. I personally like it a lot better than Lord of the Rings which seemed relatively more black and white when it came to characters and concepts of good and evil. Also George R.R. Martin is his actual name not a “supposed” one lol. Just a coincidence in regards to the middle initial…

The Expanse is amazing (never read the books), the acting and attention to minute details (realistic physics). Overall I actually like it more than Game of Thrones, story/geopolitics wise, where I felt certain deaths and actions just seem to be written for shock effect / throw off readers/viewers rather than truly enhancing the story. Interestingly the authors of the Expanse actually were on set with George RR Martin when GOT was filming if I recall. As for current shows: Peacemaker has also been pretty amazing so far. Can’t wait for the next season of The Boys. Mandolorian is another I watch as well.

Yep thanks for the effort and thanks for reorganizing the Networking section. Also from NBR here, same username.