$29 router

JohnR · « **on:** 19 Mar 2019, 06:04 pm »

Could be fun -

https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=248
http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_R1#How_to_Use_OpenWrt

PDR · « **Reply #1 on:** 19 Mar 2019, 06:44 pm »

Lmao.....thought you meant router as in wood working.....

artur9 · « **Reply #2 on:** 19 Mar 2019, 11:22 pm »

Does that have the bus bandwidth to do a good job?

JohnR · « **Reply #3 on:** 20 Mar 2019, 02:42 am »

I'm not sure what you mean by bus bandwidth - ? Even if I did, I don't know the answer to your question

The CPU looks decent for this sort of thing, quad-core ARM A7 with 512 or 1GB memory. Wi-Fi is only 802.11n. I suppose it depends on what you want to do and/or expect for $29

To be clear this is sort of like using a Raspberry PI for audio, there's a (very*) good chance you will need to tinker with it on the command line, although the web GUI looks useful.

(*) Note that the device is new and the OpenWRT port is done by the hardware manufacturer, so it could have "issues." If you were after something that is supported by OpenWRT have a look at this list - https://openwrt.org/toh/start

JohnR · « **Reply #4 on:** 20 Mar 2019, 09:07 am »

Quote from: JohnR on 20 Mar 2019, 02:42 am

If you were after something that is supported by OpenWRT have a look at this list - https://openwrt.org/toh/start

Hm, well, I have one of the boards on that list and couldn't figure out how to connect to it. Anyway, I ordered one of the $29 NanoPi R1's so will see how it goes.

artur9 · « **Reply #5 on:** 20 Mar 2019, 12:48 pm »

Quote from: JohnR on 20 Mar 2019, 02:42 am

I'm not sure what you mean by bus bandwidth - ? Even if I did, I don't know the answer to your question

So....

By Bus Bandwidth I mean this. It has 2 network ports, one in, one out so it can act as a router. At gigabit speeds the bus that copies data from the in to the out needs gigabit speeds as well to maintain network performance.

I ask because a Cubox only had 400Mb bus speed so it could not really do gigabit.

Mind you, the particular application may not need gigabit speed and therefore its bus speed may be fine for that application. Just curious.

JohnR · « **Reply #6 on:** 20 Mar 2019, 01:06 pm »

Oh, one port is 100 Mbits and one port is Gigabit. I think the default OpenWRT configuration puts the Gigabit port on the WAN, although I don't understand why... It seems this is configurable.

JohnR · « **Reply #7 on:** 13 Nov 2019, 11:56 am »

A new version is out, both ports are "Gigabit" although one is limited to about 330Mbps. No eMMC, but price dropped to $20, or $23 for the arm64 version.

https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=274