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I was thinking that... Have you tried this?
Yes - I have been running IPFire on an old desktop for several years now and I really like it.
I used an old thin client as a pfSense firewall for years... but the DSL into passthrough mode and effectively made that a modem, so in effect pfSense was the "router"
If you don't have something like that, it's a step up from a standard ISP one.
Not sure about long term power consumption though...