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Routers will traditionally have more than a 180MHz CPU to deal with all the duties a router must contend with, they also have more than one Ethernet port, you k
by joenathan 14y ago
Routers will traditionally have more than a 180MHz CPU to deal with all the duties a router must contend with, they also have more than one Ethernet port, you know for WAN and for Wired LAN. This will only work as a Router if every device on your network is wireless, either that or you have no internet.
- zokier 14y agoIf it supports VLAN/802.1q then single ethernet port is enough to do routing on wired networks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-armed_router http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-armed_router
- sigil 14y agoYup. OpenWRT supports 802.1q VLANs. So does the stock firmware from Ubiquiti, AirOS (which is just linux). http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/networking/network.interfaces#vlan.and.bridging.concepts http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/networking/network.interfaces#vl...
- ajross 14y agoYou're using a marketing definition for router, apparently meaning a (presumably expensive) rack-mounted piece of IT equipment. But traditionally "router" has been a technical term, and your wifi hardware absolutely meets the requirements.