Thanks for the reply!

From what I’ve encountered, that CPU will probably be just fine unless it’s doing a lot of other stuff too.

I had a bit more of a search around, and it seems this specific UXG-Lite is giving people speeds around 30 or 40Mbps. For a whole of network VPN, that's nowhere near fast enough! I'm looking for 200Mbps, preferably more.

This one claims 393Mbps with wireguard. I was earlier reading that you should look for a dedicated VPN box not a wifi/all in one thing but this seems to be pretty good value for money if it works. I don't need the wifi as I have a couple of mesh access points but I'll take it if it's there.

I was looking at Ubiquiti as the wifi mesh is an Amplifi one but searching around it seems all the Ubiquiti gateways have really bad VPN performance.

I’ve also noticed that PoE switches that aren’t crippled sme how are rare as hens teeth for consumer grade gear. I.e. only some ports, or only support one of the protocols,or are themselves really picky about supply voltage.

My only recommendation is to take the time to figure it all out: and if a fact is omitted assume the worst.

I'm not sure I have the knowledge to figure it all out 😆. How will I know if it's going to be picky about voltage? What PoE protocols should I be looking for, I didn't realise there were options 😆