True, the Pi has terrible networking over its usb bus, but those machines also cost 5-10 times as much, so you'd certainly expect more performance from them. Th

True, the Pi has terrible networking over its usb bus, but those machines also cost 5-10 times as much, so you'd certainly expect more performance from them. There are a lot of ~ $100USD fanless mini-pc options (I have a Zotax Zbox) on the market that have gigbit NICs which would should get you about 10X the performance for about twice the price, e.g. http://a.co/4KsxmEa http://a.co/4KsxmEa