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I recently reviewed my (imho absolutely recommendable) pick here: https://johannes.truschnigg.info/reviews/2021-01_fwbox/ https://johannes.truschnigg.info/revie

• sliken 6y ago
  Looks pretty awesome, was hoping for at least three 2.5 Gbit ports though. Know of a variation with 2.5Gbit ports? Hardkernel has a J4115 Celeron (10 watt max tdp) board with max 32GB ram (two sodimm slots), and 2 x 2.5Gbit ports. They also have a 4 x 2.5Gbit board you can add. So relatively low power, 6 x 2.5Gbit ports, plenty of ram for running any network services you want. No idea how well OpenWRT or similar would be supported though.
  • c0l0 6y ago
    I've not seen such a design yet, but if you don't need that kind of bandwidth for your WAN link (and I guess you won't - but tell me otherwise, and I will certainly be a wee bit jealous ;)), you can always just attach a switch with 2.5Gbps port speed to one of the 1Gbps ports of such a box. (Just be careful what you buy if you need VLAN support for those ports/that segment). You probably won't need a six-port variant in that case, which makes cheaper and more compact designs an option. As for 2.5Gbps Ethernet NICs with OpenWrt - I guess it depends on the particular component/NIC. People I know have had rather bad results with 2.5Gbps Realtek NICs on Windows, and I don't know if the Linux drivers fare any better. Unless you really need the additional bandwidth, I'm pretty certain that you will have the all-around better experience when sticking to 1Gbps hardware for now.