There's also Netgate hardware, which has the added benefit of supporting development of pfSense. I have the SG-3100 and have been very happy with it.

https://www.netgate.com/

Takes a bit of searching to find the hardware section (it's under products->appliances) https://www.netgate.com/products/appliances/

Do any of these pfsense setups allow an Orbi-style network? I’ve been really unhappy with my last several router purchases.

No, you'd still need a 3rd party like Orbi or Ubiquiti. I'm running a few Ubiquiti FlexHD's in mesh and have yet to have any issues.

we're happy you're happy!

I've never used those ones but I can recommend these ones (originally from the US, moved to Switzerland): https://pcengines.ch

Second these guys; really easy to set up (though I did have a nightmare getting a reliable USB-R232 converter for the initial bootstrap).

Not sure if you found a good one, this one has never failed me: http://amzn.com/B00425S1H8

With a male/male extension: http://amzn.com/B00QM8ZP5E

Will take a look at it!

My current one I've nicknamed a "Pirate" R232 adapter because it has an unfortunate and hilarious effect of duplicate the lowercase 'r' character for some reason (so I see Arrrrrrrrchlinux).

I mostly administer via SSH so it's all good at the moment.

That's hilarious.

Thanks for the pointer. I was planning on running under a VM. A dedicated box would be nice from just a reboot standpoint. I was looking at getting one or two of those HP COMPAQ ELITE 8300 boxes off ebay for $200, but they probably only have one Network interface, so I might want to add another.

I have two, and yes, they are freaking amazing. I run CentOS on mine.

I don't usually run any services since I prefer to dedicate boxes to things, but I have in the past run a number of services, including minecraft and minetest on it and it flies. Really pleased with it.

What will you do now that CentOS support is going away?

white label brand. You can get those boxes from alibaba for <$100. There are intel/amd/arm versions.