It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled. 

We received a simple router, however, there are various tools/software to install to activate the full feature of pfSense plus products such as Squid for proxy, Snort for IDS/IPS, Squidguard for content filtering, etc. You can find many open-source software under the package manager tab on the dashboard of pfSense. 

Traffic shaping and load balancing are excellent features. 

pfSense Plus software is a powerful firewall, router, and VPN solution that leverages a number of highly-regarded open-source projects. The software competes effectively with far more expensive commercial alternatives and is used by hundreds of thousands of businesses, educational institutions, and government agencies all over the world. Leading secure-networking features and capabilities include:

Ad blocker (pfBlockerNG)
Captive Portal
CARP/HA
DNS Server
DHCP Server
HTTP transparent/web/reverse proxy (Squid)
IP/Country block list (pfBlocker)
IDS/IPS - Snort
Packet capture/inspection
Port forwarding
QOS/rate limiters
Software load balancer (HA Proxy)
Traffic monitoring
Traffic logging, statistics, and graphs
Traffic shaping
VLAN
Wake-on-LAN
Website blocker (pfBlocker)

and many more packages. Just install and play with it.

The solution has good performance.