The first hit is free but after that the cost is…also free. These kids don’t stand a chance!

Good point, a double NAT setup can cause weird issues.

An i5-6500T doesn’t feel underpowered to me unless you’ve got IPS + IDS and/or OpenVPN running. Is anything firing off a bunch of errors in the logs?

It’s the classic argument of “your reasonable concerns are detrimental to our business model”